Will bed doing this one again, getting as many books as possible.
I’m not going to make any categories or levels for this challenge, as I want it to be a bit flexible. Read as many books as you feel like reading and yes, it can be children’s books, graphic novels, e-books, non-fiction, audio books, poetry and you-name-it. As it is a diversity reading challenge, it would be mean to exclude some types of reading materials, right?
Now, what is diversity you might ask? What I mean by diversity is, but not limited to;
- People of color/non-caucasian characters/authors
- Native Americans and other indigenous people
- LGBTQIA+
- Authors/characters defining themselves as trans, intersex, genderfluid or similar
- Refugees
- Religious minorities
- Mental illnesses/disorders
- Neurodiversity (like ADD, Aspergers and autism)
- Feminist themes/issues
- Physical/mental disabilities
- Characters/authors with chronic health issues
- Characters/authors in wheelchairs
- Characters/authors with cerebral palsy, ME, MS, etc.
- Characters/authors with a learning disability
The challenge starts on January 1st 2022 and will end on December 31st 2022. Also, feel free to use books for whatever other challenges you might be participating in. I've often used the same book for several challenges myself, if a book fitted into more than one challenge.
My Books:
- When It Happens to You--Molly Ringwald
- Moloka'i--Alan Brennert
- The Mockingbirds--Daisy Whitney
- The Rivals--Daisy Whitney
- Glass--Ellen Hopkins
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me--Sherman Alexie
- When You Trap a Tiger--Tae Keller
- Black Buck--Mateo Askaripour
- The XX Brain--Lisa Mosconi, PhD
- A Song Below Water--Bethany C. Morrow
- Unfriended--Rachel Vail
- Jay's Gay Agenda--Jason June
- Dancing at the Pity Party--Tyler Feder
- A Curse So Dark and Lonely--Brigid Kemmerer
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--John Berendt
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach--Carmen Agra Deedy
- Lean In--Sheryl Sandberg
- The Power of One--Bryce Courtenay
- Out of My Mind--Sharon M. Draper
- Meet Cute--Jennifer L. Armentrout & others
- Life's Too Short--Abby Jimenez
- A Heart So Fierce and Broken--Brigid Kemmerer
- A Vow So Bold and Deadly--Brigid Kemmerer
- Easy Crafts for the Insane--Kelly Williams Brown
- Angel of Greenwood--Randi Pink
- Call Us What We Carry--Amanda Gorman
- Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating--Adiba Jaigirdar
- Here to Stay--Sara Farizan
- Mulan: The Legend of the Woman Warrior--Faye-Lyn Wu
- This Woven Kingdom--Tahereh Mafi
- Ace--Angela Chen
- Kamala: Feminist Folktales From Around the World--Ethel Johnston Phelps
- The Wind in My Hair--Masih Alinejad
- My Invented Country--Isabel Allende
- Kamala's Way--Dan Morain
- Daring to Drive--Manal Al-Sharif
- The Radium Girls--Kate Moore
- Visionary Women--Andrea Barnet
- Never Always Sometimes--Adi Alsaid
- Salt to the Sea--Ruta Sepetys
- How to Be an Antiracist--Ibram X. Kendi
- Cinderella is Dead--Kalynn Bayron
- The Island of Sea Women--Lisa See
- The Rainbow Comes and Goes--Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt
- Music is History--Questlove
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac--Gabrielle Zevin
- I'll Be the One--Lyla Lee
- Sisters in Law--Linda Hirshman
- The Wonder Trail--Steve Hely
- The Little Paris Bookshop--Nina George
- It Never Goes Away--Dr. Anne L. Koch
- Hunger--Roxane Gay
- All About Love--bell hooks
- Ordinary Hazards--Nikki Grimes
- Silverworld--Diana Abu-Jaber
- Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio--Pu Songling
- Retro Rhythms--Francesca Damkar
- The Summer of Jordi Perez--Amy Spalding
- Half a Yellow Sun--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Crack in the Sea--H.M. Bouwman
- Hiroshima--John Hersey
- While Justice Sleeps--Stacey Abrams
- The Coldest Winter Ever--Sister Souljah
- Book Fiesta!--Pat Mora
- The Guncle--Steven Rowley
- The Merchant of Venice--William Shakespeare
- Lumberjanes: Friendship to the Max--Noelle Stevenson & Grace Ellis
- Vanilla--Billy Merrell
- Technically, You Started It--Lana Wood Johnson
- Code Name Verity--Elizabeth Wein
- The Best American Short Stories 2014--Jennifer Egan (ed.)
- Arsenic and Adobo--Mia P. Manansala
- Homicide and Halo-Halo--Mia P. Manansala
- Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp--Philip Pullman
- Punk 57--Penelope Douglas
- The Last Chance Library--Freya Sampson
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home--Carol Rifka Brunt
- Pet--Akwaeke Emezi
- Breath, Eyes, Memory--Edwidge Danticat
- Willow Weep for Me--Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (reread)
- Red Heart Tattoo--Lurlene McDaniel
- The Emperor's Children--Claire Messud
- The Lies That Bind--Emily Giffin
- We Came, We Saw, We Left--Charles Wheelan
- The Anthropocene Reviewed--John Green
- Tiger's Eye--Inga Clendinnen
- With the Fire on High--Elizabeth Acevedo
- Queenie--Candice Carty-Williams
- The Summer Deal--Jill Shalvis
- The Quest for California's Gold--James P. Burger
- People of Pride--Chase Clemesha, MD
- Somebody's Daughter--Ashley C. Ford
- Black Cake--Charmaine Wilkerson
- Tokyo Ever After--Emiko Jean
- High Lonesome--Louis L'Amour
- She Drives Me Crazy--Kelly Quindlen
- Maigret and the Headless Corpse--Georges Simenon
- First Trip--Cheryl Taylor
- The Switch--Beth O'Leary
- The Book of Salt--Monique Truong
- Remember the Ladies--Cheryl Harness
- Native Son--Richard Wright
- Drag Teen--Jeffery Self
- The Safety Net--Andrea Camilleri
- Three Stations--Martin Cruz Smith
- Finding Me--Viola Davis
- Aurora Rising--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
- Conversations With Friends--Sally Rooney
- Felix Ever After--Kacen Callender
- The Kiss Quotient--Helen Hoang
- The Bride Test--Helen Hoang
- Firekeeper's Daughter--Angeline Boulley
- The Heart Principle--Helen Hoang
- Mexican Gothic--Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Taking of Jake Livingston--Ryan Douglass
- Coco: Miguel's Guitar--RJ. Cregg
- The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea--Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- The Bride of Casa Dracula--Marta Acosta
- Witches: The Complete Collection--Daisuke Igashari
- Lit--Mary Karr
- Omar's Halloween--Maryann Kovalski
- City on Fire--Garth Risk Hallberg
- Jemima J--Jane Green
- Molly's Game--Molly Bloom
- The Story of Blue-Beard--Charles Perrault
- Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale--Lynda Rutledge
- Code Name Helene--Ariel Lawhon
- Band of Sisters--Lauren Willig
- Calypso--David Sedaris
- In the Midst of Winter--Isabel Allende
- Bangkok 8--John Burdett
- The Night Watchman--Louise Erdrich
- Funny You Should Ask--Elissa Sussman
- My American Journey--Colin Powell
- A Rule Against Murder--Louise Penny
- The Year of Magical Thinking--Joan Didion
- American Road Trip--Patrick Flores-Scott
- Maccabee!--Tilda Balsley
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow--Gabrielle Zevin
- The Good Sister--Sally Hepworth
- Last in a Long Line of Rebels--Lisa Lewis Tyre
- What Was the Holocaust?--Gail Herman
- Wishful Drinking--Carrie Fisher
- Little Fires Everywhere--Celeste Ng
- White Noise--Don DeLillo
- The Mapmaker's Wife--Robert Whitaker
- Kwanzaa--Martin Hints and Kate Hintz
- Mr. Miracle--Debbie Macomber
- Dreidels on the Brain--Joel Ben Izzy
- The Clay Marble--Mingfong Ho
Calling challenge complete on December 27
This is an important challenge. I plan to take part.
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