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:
- City of Women--David R. Gilliam
- To All The Boys I've Loved Before--Jenny Han
- More Brains Than Bullets/The Road to Casas Piedras/West of Dodge--Louis L'Amour
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--Rebecca Skloot
- Quicksand--Nella Larsen
- Are You My Mother?--Alison Bechtel
- The Blacker the Berry--Wallace Thurman
- Openly Bob--Bob Smith
- I Got the Rhythm--Connie Schofield Morrion
- El Deaf--Cece Bell
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer--Carole Boston Weatherford
- Fish in a Tree--Lynda Mullally Hunt
- Lipstick Jihad--Azadeh Maven
- Ash--Malinda Lo
- Let's Dance a Waltz Vol. 1--Natsumi Ando
- If You Come Softly--Jacqueline Woodson
- Nothing--Robin Friedman
- La Cucina--Lily Prior
- Orphan Train--Christina Baker Kline
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly--Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Willow Weep for Me--Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
- The Rules Do Not Apply--Ariel Levy
- Yaqui Delgado Want to Kick Your Ass--Meg Medina
- Britt-Marie Was Here--Fredrik Backman
- Everything, Everything--Nicola Yoon
- We Are the Goldens--Dana Reinhardt
- Ice Bound--Dr. Jeri Nielsen
- Crossing to Safety--Wallace Stegner
- The Oregon Trail--Rinker Buck
- I'll Give You the Sun--Jandy Nelson
- Crime and Punishment--Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls--Lynn Weingarten
- This Is Where It Ends--Marieke Nijkamp
- The Secrets of My Life--Caitlyn Jenner
- Carry On--Rainbow Rowell
- Luckiest Girl Alive--Jessica Knoll
- Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi
- The View From Saturday--E.L. Konigsburg
- The Glass Castle--Jeannette Walls
- The Rum Diary--Hunter S. Thompson
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda--Becky Albertalli
- The Hate U Give--Angie Thomas
- Dragon of the Red Dawn--Mary Pope Osborne
- Monday With a Mad Genius--Mary Pope Osborne
- Dark Day in the Deep Sea--Mary Pope Osborne
- The Inexplicable Logic of My Life--Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Who's That Girl--Blair Thornburgh
- Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri
- Southern Discomfort--Rita Mae Brown
- Chanda's Secrets--Allan Stratton
- Little House on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Beautiful Ruins--Jess Walter
- I Can't Make This Up--Kevin Hart
- Holding Up the Universe--Jennifer Niven
- Everyone's Dead But Us--Mark Richard Zubro
- Ming Tea Murder--Laura Childs
- Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie's Song--Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
- The Importance of Being Earnest--Oscar Wilde
- The Shack--William Paul Young
- Ghosts--Raina Telgemeier
- Goodbye, Vitamin--Rachel Khong
- The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
- The Way to Paradise--Mario Vargas Llosa
- Blood Red, Snow White--Marcus Sedgwick
- The Nix--Nathan Hill
- Dear Martin--Nic Stone
- Desperately Seeking Paradise--Ziauddin Sardar
- The Apple Orchard--Susan Wiggs
- Drama--Raina Telgemeier
- Life Studies--Susan Vreeland
Calling challenge complete on December 19
For those who read middle grade, Jo Whittemore has a series called Confidentially Yours with diverse leads. There are SO many other examples these days, but that's the first one that came to mind!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea.
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