Wednesday, November 9, 2022

2023 Diversity Reading Challenge

 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:
  1. Anxiety Disorder--Lisa Fletcher
  2. The Love Hypothesis--Ali Hazelwood
  3. Almost American Girl--Robin Ha
  4. They Both Die at the End--Adam Silvera
  5. Tokyo Dreaming--Emiko Jean
  6. The Ex Talk--Rachel Lynn Solomon
  7. White Women--Regina Jackson
  8. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems--Warsan Shire
  9. My Name is Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
  10. Meet Cute Dairy--Emery Lee
  11. Kiss & Tell--Adib Khorram
  12. The Gallery of Vanished Husbands--Natasha Solomons
  13. Seven Days in June--Tia Williams
  14. Her Body and Other Parties--Carmen Maria Machado
  15. I Kissed Shara Wheeler--Casey McQuiston
  16. Lust & Wonder--Augusten Burroughs
  17. A Long Way Gone--Ishmael Beah
  18. The Gift of Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
  19. Blood Like Magic--Liselle Sambury
  20. Stuntboy, In the Meantime--Jason Reynolds
  21. The Pretty One--Keah Brown
  22. Queerly Beloved--Susie Dumond
  23. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman--Ernest J. Gaines
  24. Yerba Buena--Nina LaCour
  25. Six Crimson Cranes--Elizabeth Lim
  26. Katherine Johnson--Tamra B. Orr
  27. The Tryout--Christina Soontornvat
  28. The Girls of Atomic City--Denise Kiernan
  29. Death of an Italian Chef--Lee Hollis
  30. The Peddler's Grandson--Edward Cohen
  31. For Everyone--Jason Reynolds
  32. Homegoing--Yaa Gyasi
  33. Tomb of Sand--Geetanjali Shree 
  34. The House of Broken Angels--Luis Alberto Urrea
  35. Dear Edward--Ann Napolitano
  36. 8 Sandpiper Way--Debbie Macomber
  37. Lost Roses--Martha Hall Kelly
  38. The Best Man--Richard Peck
  39. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day--Pearl Cleage
  40. The Jew in the Lotus--Rodger Kamenetz
  41. The Undertaker's Assistant--Amanda Skenandore
  42. Changeling--Molly Harper
  43. Josee, the Tiger and the Fish--Seiko Tanabe
  44. A Shot to Save the World--Gregory Zuckerman
  45. Midnight in Chernobyl--Adam Higginbotham
  46. Cool For the Summer--Dahlia Adler
  47. The Astonishing Color of After--Emily X.R. Pan
  48. The Black Kids--Christina Hammonds Reed
  49. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World--Benjamin Alire Saenz 
  50. Memoirs of an Addicted Brain--Marc Lewis
  51. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk--Kathleen Rooney
  52. The Path Made Clear--Oprah Winfrey
  53. The Other Side--Juan Pablo Villalobos
  54. Famous Father Daughter--Jamie Bernstein
  55. Summer on the Bluffs--Sunny Hostin
  56. The Best At It--Maulik Pancholy
  57. The Deep--Rivers Solomon
  58. All Boys Aren't Blue--George M. Johnson
  59. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor
  60. The Personal Librarian--Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
  61. Orange, Volume 1--Ichigo Takano
  62. The Magic in Changing Your Stars--Leah Henderson
  63. Gender Queer--Maia Kababe
  64. Blues For Mister Charlie--James Baldwin
  65. Black Girl, Call Home--Jasmine Mans
  66. Tales From the Arabian Nights--Anonymous
  67. Calypso, Corpses and Cooking--Raquel V. Reyes
  68. Taste: My Life Through Food--Stanley Tucci
  69. The Pale-Faced Lie--David Crow
  70. Climate Justice--Mary Robinson
  71. Sitting Pretty--Rebekah Taussig
  72. The Villa--Rachel Hawkins
  73. Burn Baby Burn--Meg Medina
  74. So-Called Normal--Mark Henick
  75. Committed--Elizabeth Gilbert
  76. The Adventures of Augie March--Saul Bellow
  77. Once More With Feeling--Elissa Sussman
  78. Odd One Out--Nic Stone
  79. Islandborn--Junot Diaz
  80. How to Murder Your Life--Cat Marnell
  81. Lumberjanes Vol 3: A Terrible Plan--Noelle Stevenson
  82. Oh My Gods!--Stephanie Cooke
  83. The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown
  84. Maame--Jessica George
  85. One of Us is Lying--Karen M. McManus
  86. Maid--Stephanie Land
  87. Spare--Prince Harry
  88. When They Call You a Terrorist--Patrisse Kahn-Cullors
  89. All American Boys--Jason Reynolds
  90. The House at Sugar Beach--Helene Cooper
  91. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life--William Finnegan
  92. In Deeper Waters--F.T. Lukens
  93. The Hill We Climb--Amanda Gorman
  94. With the Might of Angels--Andrea Davis Pinkney
  95. The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien
  96. The Late Bourgeois World--Nadine Gordimer
  97. Orange Volume 2--Ichigo Takano
  98. Tatiana--Martin Cruz Smith
  99. One of Us is Next--Karen M. McManus
  100. North American Indian Portraits--James D. Horan
  101. The Proposal--Jasmine Guillory
  102. Macbeth--Jo Nesbo
  103. A Queer History of the United States for Young People--Michael Bronski
  104. Elatsoe--Darcy Little Badger
  105. State of Wonder--Ann Patchett
  106. Dead Dead Girls-Nekesa Afia
  107. The Midnight Club--Christopher Pike
  108. The City We Became--N.K. Jeminsin
  109. The Cruel Prince--Holly Black
  110. An Unkindness of Ghosts--Rivers Solomon
  111. Wow, No Thank You--Samantha Irby
  112. A Woman is No Man--Etaf Rum
  113. Olga Dies Dreaming--Xochitl Gonzalez
  114. Annie John--Jamaica Kincaid
  115. Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York--Gail Parent
  116. The Business of Fancydancing--Sherman Alexie
  117. Solito--Javier Zamora
  118. Love on the Brain--Ali Hazelwood
  119. Carrie Soto is Back--Taylor Jenkins Reid
  120. Bad Fat Black Girl--Sesali Bowen
  121. The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
  122. Whereabouts--Jhumpa Lahiri
  123. Sister Stardust--Jane Green
  124. The Running Dream--Wendelin Van Draanen
  125. A Song for a New Day--Sarah Pinsker
  126. The Swimmers--Julie Otsuka
  127. Gingerbread--Helen Oyeyemi
  128. The Masterpiece--Emile Zola

Calling challenge complete on December 28

3 comments:

  1. I just finished a great book that falls under this category of people of color AND Native Americans. I may just do this this year. :-)

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  2. Will be reading more diverse books nest year. Great challenge

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