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Is anyone editing this list? Some of the books added are for categories that don't exist.

I'm not sure if anyone's edited it yet. I can remove titles that don't belong, if people want me to. Just let me know which ones.

Thanks, Navessa! I'm open for suggestions on what to remove. There are a couple of additions that look like promotional spam, and several others where the category is not obvious to me, but I don't want to delete anything wrongly.

Curious Incident etc. and Symptoms of Being Human are not ownvoices, though both of their categories require them to be. Golden Boy and Double Exposure are up there for an Intersex MC, but that doesn't seem to be a category. Simon vs. is up there for a Gay MC, which isn't a category either.

That is so weird! I could have sworn there was a square for Intersex MC. Oh well, I'll change my designation for Golden Boy and Double Exposure to MC w/ an Underrepresented Body. They do definitely fit that category. You're right, Symptoms of Being Human is not #ownvoices (as far as I can tell, Jeff Garvin is not non-binary) and Becky Albertalli is not a gay man, so that's not #ownvoices, either. I'll remove those two.

A list of books by refugees in America (possible own voices choices)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/bo...

I'd like to add the Her Instruments series by M. C. A. Hogarth: and . Hogarth is a Cuban-American author, the lead heroine is PoC (with awesome covers by the amazing Julie Dillon), and two of the humanoid beings (Tigraines) live in polyamorous family relationships.

Now that I'm thinking about it, Steve Bein (not #ownvoices) Fated Blades series featuring a lead Japanese heroine, set in Japan with a full Japanese cast (think of a Japanese version of the brilliant Prime Suspect series with Dame Helen Mirren .

And of course, there's the Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone . Not an #ownvoices author but plenty of PoC and LGBTQ characters. And more great cover art from the amazing Chris McGrath.

I think that's all for now, lol. I'm a firm believer that not every diverse/inclusive book has to be heavy handed or issue oriented. There's a lot of great fantasy and sci-fi too.

Oops one more (I promise): Kai Ashante Wilson. Not certain he's #ownvoices but he is a Black queer author and .

Lol, that's it, for now.

I JUST found this list, are you going to do it again in 2018? Is there a book club group associated with this list? (Like the PopSugar Challenge group?)

@jana: i really, really hope that there will be but there hasn't been any news about a 2018 version. and no, not a particular group. it's run by the people mentioned on the cards.