This challenge is focused on intentionally reading more diverse books, whether it be diverse characters or diverse authors. This challenge is hosted by Celebrity Readers, please click on the link to find out more and to sign up!
how do we classify a book as diverse?
The author or the main character – or one of the leads, who preferably has a POV – has to belong to a diverse group. According to the definition of We Need Diverse Books:
“We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities*, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.
*We subscribe to a broad definition of disability, which includes but is not limited to physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and mental illnesses (this may also include addiction). Furthermore, we subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due to lack of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of marginalization.”
guidelines:
- The challenge will run from January 1st, 2024 to December 31st, 2024. Books must be read during this time frame to count. Sign up is open from now until December 1st, 2024, so you may join even just for the last month of the year.
- Any format and length of book counts – print, ebook, audio, ARC, etc.
- Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable!
- Reviews are not required, but highly encouraged.
My Goals:
I signed up for this challenge because I’ve got several books on my TBR that fit the theme and I want to be more intentional about reading them and talking about them. I don’t think I’ll be doing the mini-challenges because I’ve already got some books on my mind that I really want to read and they may not fit the mini-challenge themes.
My intention is to read 12 diverse books this year.
The Books:
I will be listing them here as I finish them. I will also be linking them up at Celebrity Readers’ Diversity Reading Challenge Review Link-Up. Check back often to see what I’ve read!
As of June 30th, 2024, I’ve achieved my goal with 13/12 diverse books. I consider this challenge accomplished but I’m planning to keep going and I’m now upping my goal to 20!
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- Happily Ever After by Debbie Tung
- Everything is OK by Debbie Tung
- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Way Forward by Yung Pueblo
- Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volumes 1-11 by Nagabe
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