Recs if you like Becoming...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

Memoirs where the audiobook is narrated by the author

full-cast audio dramas have their place, and celebrity narrators are fun to recognize, but sometimes it's better to hear it in the author's voice, literally.

Audiobooks where the author narrates themselves (or is apart of a cast, not just some preface type stuff) Open for suggestions

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Mostly memoirs, mostly celebrities. Books where listening to the author read it can add so much to the stories because they can convey the exact tone that they intended.

per a request after I posted a forum!

A list of books from A-Z. I tried to include various genres to appeal to a wide array of readers. I wanted this to be a good reference list for anyone doing an alphabet reading challenge or anyone just looking for a new book to read!

List of banned books from index

Diverse voices, from trailblazers to storytellers, that illuminate leadership, resilience, and the messy realities of influence.

For a long time, memoirs have been focused on the experience of men, in particular white men. Here is a list of various kinds of memoirs by black women to empower those voices that are often silenced :)

As always, if you have any recommendations to add to this list, let me know in the comments below!

Books with black people in it (mostly as the mains characters)

Both Fiction and Non fiction books.

It's the semiquincentennial! (1776-2026) One book for each of the 50 states, Presidents & First Ladies, other American authors & works of note... (List first published by Summer M. Smith)

These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.

This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.

Growing list of memoirs I have read or want to read that have been discussed on Chelsea Devantez's podcast, Glamorous Trash.

These are books that will help you expand your worldview and understand what people go through. Some books are fictional, diving into the questions of power, relationships, privilege, and struggle. Others are true stories, bearing witness to real events and experiences that happen world-wide. All of these books exemplify the importance of storytelling as a means to understanding each other and our world!

A collection of books for every version of me—the hopeless romantic, the overthinker, the dreamer, the girl learning to heal, and the woman still figuring it all out.

Inside you’ll find swoon-worthy romances that make your heart ache in the best way, memoirs that feel like late-night conversations with a friend, stories of self-discovery and personal growth, comforting fiction that wraps around you like a warm blanket, and thought-provoking reads for the intellectual baddies.