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