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The FOLD Challenge

Reading and listening recommendations that encourage booklovers to thoughtfully consider their reading lists and ask one important question: Who’s missing?

Are You Ready for the Challenge?

What are you reading? Who’s missing? The FOLD’s Reading Challenge encourages booklovers to diversify their reading and their listening by asking one important question: Who’s missing?

Each year, the FOLD releases a twelve-challenge list in January, focusing on one challenge per month for the duration of the year. Every month, the FOLD releases a blog compiled by one of our planning team members that includes a list of recommended titles to help you along.

Each month, the FOLD features one of the challenges, providing suggested titles through a monthly blog.

For readers who may not read as many titles throughout the year, pick a few challenges that will enrich your reading list and your life.

As we say at the FOLD, diversity always takes more work…but it always reaps better results. So grab a book and get reading – and check back here for more.

January: A book by a Palestinian author

February: A book that has been challenged in Canadian schools

March: Young adult mystery by a racialized author

April: A book by a Sikh Author

May: Historical fiction by a South Asian author

June: A book by a Cree author

July: Translated book by an independent Canadian press

August: Novel OR book of poetry by a Caribbean author

September: Fiction by a neurodivergent author

October: Non-fiction by a non-binary and/or transgender author

November: An ACCESSIBLE* book by a marginalized author

December: 2024 in Reflection