Doing this one again.
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 ADHD 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
My Books:
- Anxiety Disorder--Lisa Fletcher
- The Love Hypothesis--Ali Hazelwood
- Almost American Girl--Robin Ha
- They Both Die at the End--Adam Silvera
- Tokyo Dreaming--Emiko Jean
- The Ex Talk--Rachel Lynn Solomon
- White Women--Regina Jackson
- Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems--Warsan Shire
- My Name is Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
- Meet Cute Dairy--Emery Lee
- Kiss & Tell--Adib Khorram
- The Gallery of Vanished Husbands--Natasha Solomons
- Seven Days in June--Tia Williams
- Her Body and Other Parties--Carmen Maria Machado
- I Kissed Shara Wheeler--Casey McQuiston
- Lust & Wonder--Augusten Burroughs
- A Long Way Gone--Ishmael Beah
- The Gift of Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
- Blood Like Magic--Liselle Sambury
- Stuntboy, In the Meantime--Jason Reynolds
- The Pretty One--Keah Brown
- Queerly Beloved--Susie Dumond
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman--Ernest J. Gaines
- Yerba Buena--Nina LaCour
- Six Crimson Cranes--Elizabeth Lim
- Katherine Johnson--Tamra B. Orr
- The Tryout--Christina Soontornvat
- The Girls of Atomic City--Denise Kiernan
- Death of an Italian Chef--Lee Hollis
- The Peddler's Grandson--Edward Cohen
- For Everyone--Jason Reynolds
- Homegoing--Yaa Gyasi
- Tomb of Sand--Geetanjali Shree
- The House of Broken Angels--Luis Alberto Urrea
- Dear Edward--Ann Napolitano
- 8 Sandpiper Way--Debbie Macomber
- Lost Roses--Martha Hall Kelly
- The Best Man--Richard Peck
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day--Pearl Cleage
- The Jew in the Lotus--Rodger Kamenetz
- The Undertaker's Assistant--Amanda Skenandore
- Changeling--Molly Harper
- Josee, the Tiger and the Fish--Seiko Tanabe
- A Shot to Save the World--Gregory Zuckerman
- Midnight in Chernobyl--Adam Higginbotham
- Cool For the Summer--Dahlia Adler
- The Astonishing Color of After--Emily X.R. Pan
- The Black Kids--Christina Hammonds Reed
- Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World--Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Memoirs of an Addicted Brain--Marc Lewis
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk--Kathleen Rooney
- The Path Made Clear--Oprah Winfrey
- The Other Side--Juan Pablo Villalobos
- Famous Father Daughter--Jamie Bernstein
- Summer on the Bluffs--Sunny Hostin
- The Best At It--Maulik Pancholy
- The Deep--Rivers Solomon
- All Boys Aren't Blue--George M. Johnson
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor
- The Personal Librarian--Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
- Orange, Volume 1--Ichigo Takano
- The Magic in Changing Your Stars--Leah Henderson
- Gender Queer--Maia Kababe
- Blues For Mister Charlie--James Baldwin
- Black Girl, Call Home--Jasmine Mans
- Tales From the Arabian Nights--Anonymous
- Calypso, Corpses and Cooking--Raquel V. Reyes
- Taste: My Life Through Food--Stanley Tucci
- The Pale-Faced Lie--David Crow
- Climate Justice--Mary Robinson
- Sitting Pretty--Rebekah Taussig
- The Villa--Rachel Hawkins
- Burn Baby Burn--Meg Medina
- So-Called Normal--Mark Henick
- Committed--Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Adventures of Augie March--Saul Bellow
- Once More With Feeling--Elissa Sussman
- Odd One Out--Nic Stone
- Islandborn--Junot Diaz
- How to Murder Your Life--Cat Marnell
- Lumberjanes Vol 3: A Terrible Plan--Noelle Stevenson
- Oh My Gods!--Stephanie Cooke
- The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown
- Maame--Jessica George
- One of Us is Lying--Karen M. McManus
- Maid--Stephanie Land
- Spare--Prince Harry
- When They Call You a Terrorist--Patrisse Kahn-Cullors
- All American Boys--Jason Reynolds
- The House at Sugar Beach--Helene Cooper
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life--William Finnegan
- In Deeper Waters--F.T. Lukens
- The Hill We Climb--Amanda Gorman
- With the Might of Angels--Andrea Davis Pinkney
- The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Late Bourgeois World--Nadine Gordimer
- Orange Volume 2--Ichigo Takano
- Tatiana--Martin Cruz Smith
- One of Us is Next--Karen M. McManus
- North American Indian Portraits--James D. Horan
- The Proposal--Jasmine Guillory
- Macbeth--Jo Nesbo
- A Queer History of the United States for Young People--Michael Bronski
- Elatsoe--Darcy Little Badger
- State of Wonder--Ann Patchett
- Dead Dead Girls-Nekesa Afia
- The Midnight Club--Christopher Pike
- The City We Became--N.K. Jeminsin
- The Cruel Prince--Holly Black
- An Unkindness of Ghosts--Rivers Solomon
- Wow, No Thank You--Samantha Irby
- A Woman is No Man--Etaf Rum
- Olga Dies Dreaming--Xochitl Gonzalez
- Annie John--Jamaica Kincaid
- Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York--Gail Parent
- The Business of Fancydancing--Sherman Alexie
- Solito--Javier Zamora
- Love on the Brain--Ali Hazelwood
- Carrie Soto is Back--Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Bad Fat Black Girl--Sesali Bowen
- The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
- Whereabouts--Jhumpa Lahiri
- Sister Stardust--Jane Green
- The Running Dream--Wendelin Van Draanen
- A Song for a New Day--Sarah Pinsker
- The Swimmers--Julie Otsuka
- Gingerbread--Helen Oyeyemi
- The Masterpiece--Emile Zola
Calling challenge complete on December 28
Good challenge!
ReplyDeleteI just finished a great book that falls under this category of people of color AND Native Americans. I may just do this this year. :-)
ReplyDeleteWill be reading more diverse books nest year. Great challenge
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