THE 2017 DIVERSE BOOKS READING CHALLENGE

Chasing Fairytales will again be hosting the Diverse Reads Challenge.  Click to sign up and see more info.

For newbies to the challenge - what is it all about? Well, we want to encourage the reading and support of diverse books and marginalized voices, and therefore this challenge hopes to help you read more diversely in 2017!

HOW DO WE CLASSIFY A BOOK AS DIVERSE?

The main character - or one of the leads, who preferably has a POV - has to belong to a diverse group. According to the definition of We Need Diverse Books

"We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, 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."

Furthermore if you have any doubt regarding whether a book is diverse or not, feel free to ask either Shelly or Me via twitter. I am @chasingfaes and Shelly is @shellysrambles.

Here is what I am reading:

1. City of Women--David R. Gilliam
2. To All The Boys I've Loved Before--Jenny Han
3. More Brains Than Bullets/The Road to Casas Piedras/West of Dodge--Louis L'Amour
4. Epic of Gilgamesh
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--Rebecca Skloot
6. Quicksand--Nella Larsen
7. Are You My Mother?--Alison Bechtel
8. The Blacker the Berry--Wallace Thurman
9. Openly Bob--Bob Smith
10. I Got the Rhythm--Connie Schofield Morrion
11. El Deaf--Cece Bell
12. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer--Carole Boston Weatherford
13. Fish in a Tree--Lynda Mullally Hunt
14. Lipstick Jihad--Azadeh Maven
15. Ash--Malinda Lo
16. Let's Dance a Waltz Vol. 1--Natsumi Ando
17. If You Come Softly--Jacqueline Woodson
18. Nothing--Robin Friedman
19. La Cucina--Lily Prior
20. Orphan Train--Christina Baker Kline
21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly--Jean-Dominique Bauby
22. Willow Weep for Me--Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
23. The Rules Do Not Apply--Ariel Levy
24. Yaqui Delgado Want to  Kick Your Ass--Meg Medina
25. Britt-Marie Was Here--Fredrik Backman
26. Everything, Everything--Nicola Yoon
27. We Are the Goldens--Dana Reinhardt
28. Ice Bound--Dr. Jeri Nielsen
29. Crossing to Safety--Wallace Stegner
30. The Oregon Trail--Rinker Buck
31. I'll Give You the Sun--Jandy Nelson
32. Crime and Punishment--Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls--Lynn Weingarten
34. This Is Where It Ends--Marieke Nijkamp
35. The Secrets of My Life--Caitlyn Jenner
36. Carry On--Rainbow Rowell
37. Luckiest Girl Alive--Jessica Knoll
38. Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi
39. The View From Saturday--E.L. Konigsburg
40. The Glass Castle--Jeannette Walls
41. The Rum Diary--Hunter S. Thompson
42. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda--Becky Albertalli
43. The Hate U Give--Angie Thomas
44. Dragon of the Red Dawn--Mary Pope Osborne
45. Monday With a Mad Genius--Mary Pope Osborne
46. Dark Day in the Deep Sea--Mary Pope Osborne
47. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life--Benjamin Alire Saenz
48. Who's That Girl--Blair Thornburgh
49. Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri
50. Southern Discomfort--Rita Mae Brown
51. Chanda's Secrets--Allan Stratton
52. Little House on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder
53. Beautiful Ruins--Jess Walter
54. I Can't Make This Up--Kevin Hart
55. Holding Up the Universe--Jennifer Niven
56. Everyone's Dead But Us--Mark Richard Zubro
57. Ming Tea Murder--Laura Childs
58. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie's Song--Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
59. The Importance of Being Earnest--Oscar Wilde
60. The Shack--William Paul Young
61. Ghosts--Raina Telgemeier
62. Goodbye, Vitamin--Rachel Khong
63. The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
64. The Way to Paradise--Mario Vargas Llosa
65. Blood Red, Snow White--Marcus Sedgwick
66. The Nix--Nathan Hill
67. Dear Martin--Nic Stone
68. Desperately Seeking Paradise--Ziauddin Sardar
69. The Apple Orchard--Susan Wiggs
70. Drama--Raina Telgemeier
71. Life Studies--Susan Vreeland

Calling challenge complete on December 19

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