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.
The 2021 Challenge is sponsored by Audible Canada.
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 short story collection by an author from a marginalized community
February: A book that explores racism by a Black Canadian author(s)
March: An audiobook by a FOLD 2021 author
April: A book that experiments with form by an Asian Canadian author
May: Historical fiction by a writer of colour
June: Non-fiction by a trans or non-binary author
July: Book by a BIPOC author from Europe
August: Book by a marginalized author who’s over 60
September: Book by an author living with chronic illness
October: Fiction by a Latinx author
November: A play by an Indigenous playwright
December: A book by a marginalized author from British Columbia
BONUS: A cookbook by a BIPOC chef
Start Reading!
Download the FOLD 2021 Reading Challenge poster pdf and join our mailing list to receive emails with our monthly suggested reads.
![For the June FOLD Challenge, we’re reading nonfiction by Trans and Non-Binary authors. Have you read these titles? Do you have additional recommendations? Tell us about them in the comments!
Read what FOLD Planning Team member Calyssa has to say about this month’s recommended reads over on the FOLD blog—link in bio!
[ID: Four titles chosen for the FOLD June Challenge: Nonfiction by a Trans or Non-Binary Author. Titles selected are Care Of by Ivan Coyote, Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi, The Conscious Creative by Kelly Small, and Like A Boy But Not A Boy, by andrea bennett.]
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