Whatever I Think Of!: THE 2016 DIVERSE BOOKS READING CHALLENGE

This is a good challenge to participate in. Go to Chasing Faerytales to sign up and see more detail.

You all know how much I love diversity. And one of my main resolutions for 2016 is to read more diverse books, so I was looking for a reading challenge to keep me in track! And I was astonished to realise that there was no such challenge available, so why not host one myself? As I was thinking aloud on the lines, the lovely Shelly @Read.Sleep.Repeat offered to co host if I did do it, so here are we, hosting the 2016 Diverse Reads Book Challenge!

The main objective of this challenge is to promote diverse books and help bloggers and readers who want to read more diversity in 2016!

THE RULES

· Read books that are diverse.

· The Main Character must be part of a diverse group*

Defined by We Need Diverse Books: We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities*, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.

*We subscribe to a broad definition of disability, which includes but is not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental illnesses (this may also include addiction). Furthermore, we subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due to lack of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of marginalization.
· The book can be set in a diverse setting, but not necessarily.

( But, note that books set in a different country, but features a white MC won't be considered as diverse here. Eg : Ink by Amanda Sun, Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins )

· #Ownvoices stories (stories about marginalized groups written by a member of that marginalized group) are widely encouraged as well! Promoting diverse books by diverse authors is important.

· If the book is a fantasy it can be based on/inspired by a diverse mythology or folklore

( E.g. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh)

· If the book is sci fi or dystopia, it has to be based on a dystopian country that’s not USA.

( E.g. Cinder by Marissa Meyer)

· Intersectionality is encouraged.

( Eg :- A book featuring a person of colour with a disability )

· The novels don’t have to be YA, but as we are YA bloggers, those are probably the novels we are more likely to read

THE LOGISTICS

· This challenge will run from the 1st of January 2016 to the 31st of December 2016.

· You can join in anytime you want.

· This challenge is meant to be a personal goal challenge to help find more diverse novels and to read more diversely.

· There are no levels/points! You can read as much or as little as you’d like, this is a personal goal and is mainly individualized

· To join the challenge, add your sign up post to the link up at the bottom of the post. You can include your TBR for the challenge if you want, but it’s not a requirement. Your sign up post can be a separate post or a part of a giant list of all your 2016 reading challenges. Anything is fine.

· If you don’t have a blog, you may use a twitter handle or instagram profile and share this post with the hashtag #DiverseReads2016 that you’re participating! But add that link to the sign up link below.

· If you want to share why you joined the challenge or why you want to read more diverse books, you can tweet us using #Iwanttoreaddivesitybecause… and we can discuss there. This is optional, just adding your blog to the bottom of this post is enough for this requirement!

Here is what I am reading: