2026 Reading Challenge

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A New Eden by Menilik Henry DyerRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonDune by Frank HerbertThe Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le GuinEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
Colonization in Science Fiction
180 books — 115 voters
Dune by Frank HerbertThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Martian by Andy WeirDragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
Alien Planets
305 books — 87 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanMy Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi NagataUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaZami by Audre Lorde
Books by Lesbians of Colour
300 books — 61 voters
Alpha by Tiya RayneHis to Claim by Taylor VaughnVenomous by Penelope FletcherAdaptation by Pepper PaceThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Black women in Science Fiction
275 books — 57 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Passage by Justin CroninWool Omnibus by Hugh HoweySwan Song by Robert McCammon
Civilization Reboot
59 books — 51 voters
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Break by Katherena VermetteTrail of Lightning by Rebecca RoanhorseBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Sisterhood by Tali Inlow
Books by Indigenous Women
276 books — 49 voters

Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-FentonI Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay DupuisFive Little Indians by Michelle GoodWhen We Were Alone by David Alexander RobertsonNo Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen
Residential Schools
74 books — 32 voters
Terraformer by Scott McElhaneyRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonGreen Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonDominion by Scott McElhaneyBlue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Synthetic Ecologies
18 books — 24 voters

Across the Universe by Beth RevisRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonSkyracos by John PichaProxima by Stephen BaxterVerita by Tracy Rozzlynn
Best New Planet Colonization Books
29 books — 21 voters
Red Rising by Pierce BrownFoundation by Isaac AsimovRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Martian by Andy WeirLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Science-Fiction Colonization Style Books
46 books — 18 voters

Our Lit by LI TchaikovBlue Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonMercury Ice—The Seventh Coordinate by Michael MorrowSpace Vacation by Christina EngelaThe Exigent Earth by Beverly Knauer
Spectacular Science Fiction
31 books — 17 voters
Struggle for the Land by Ward ChurchillThe Worker Elite by BrommaA Little Matter of Genocide by Ward ChurchillChristopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrik ClarkeOccupying Alcatraz by Alexis Burling
Onkwehón:we Rising Recommended Reading: Revolutionary Indigenist and Anti-Colonial Lit
42 books — 8 voters

The Heart of Touqar - THT - Epic - Vol 1 by Dr.Eng.Sara AhmadThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsDune by Frank HerbertShaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
Colonial Fantasy
62 books — 8 voters
Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. DeglerThe Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the... by Laird W. BergadThe Masters And The Slaves by Gilberto FreyreThe Hidden History of Capoeira by Maya Talmon-ChvaicerFreedoms Given, Freedoms Won by Kim D. Butler
Slavery in Brazil - Escravidão no Brasil
48 books — 3 voters

Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard MilesBarbarians to Angels by Peter S. WellsBury Me Standing by Isabel FonsecaThe Thirty Years War by C.V. WedgwoodThe History of Spain by Joyce E. Salisbury
The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad Suggested Reading
105 books — 3 voters

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