2019 DIVERSITY READING CHALLENGE

The Platypire Diversity challenge won't be offered next year, so the Celebrity Readers page is now hosting a similar challenge. I plan to complete all 12 monthly themes and try to read as many LGBTQ+ books for the summer as possible.

JANUARY – diverse folktales/culture/mythology; or diverse retelling; or non-western setting:

The Isle of the Lost--Melissa De La Cruz

FEBRUARY – poc: Black/African American: Not Without Laughter--Langston Hughes

MARCH – #ownvoices; or gender: female authors in male-dominated genres/non-fiction:
Hidden Figures--Margot Lee Shetterly

APRIL – poc: Middle Eastern/South Asian: And the Mountains Echoed--Khaled Hosseini

MAY – poc: East Asian/Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander: The Inheritance of Loss--Kiran Desai

JUNE – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity: On a Sunbeam--Tillie Walden

JULY – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity: Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah--Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

AUGUST – mental health/addiction: Marcelo in the Real World--Francisco X. Stork

SEPTEMBER – poc: hispanic/latinx: These Are Not Sweet Girls--Marjorie Agosin (ed.)

OCTOBER – physical/sensory/cognitive/intellectual/developmental disabilities:

An Unquiet Mind--Kay Redfield Jamison

NOVEMBER – poc: Native American: Night Flying Woman--Igantia Booker

DECEMBER – religious minorities: Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing--Abram Shalom Himelstein & Jamie Schweser

There’s sort of an extra level to the LGBT+ pride summer in June and July — aim to check off as many letters in LGBTQQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) as possible!

Books for LGBTQ+ Summer Mini-Challenge:

1. Blameless--Gail Carrier
2. Unto Us a Son is Given--Donna Leon 
3. Rebel--Beverly Jenkins
4. Bloodrose--Andrea Cremer
5. She Wanted It All--Kathryn Casey
6. The Poet X--Elizabeth Acevedo
7. The Night Watch--Sarah Waters
8. The Backstagers, Volume 1--James Tynion IV
9. Bone Appetite--Carolyn Haines

Challenge completed on December 1