A bingo challenge to read 36 specifically diverse books in 2017. Designed to spread the awareness of diverse literature in the book community, encourage authors to add their voices, and enable readers to easily find books that speak to them. This list will contain numerous books for every bingo spot on the board, making it easier for readers to participate, and, hopefully, spread the word.
740 books ·
397 voters ·
list created January 9th, 2017
by Navessa.
Dahlia
5658 books
479 friends
479 friends
Clare
8454 books
346 friends
346 friends
Katharine
1456 books
48 friends
48 friends
Gabriela
10633 books
77 friends
77 friends
Chantal Aurora
3298 books
433 friends
433 friends
Jess
1128 books
21 friends
21 friends
Chris
479 books
38 friends
38 friends
Sarah
169 books
191 friends
191 friends
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Jan 18, 2017 01:34PM
Is anyone editing this list? Some of the books added are for categories that don't exist.
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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...
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The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears
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I'd like to add the Her Instruments series by M. C. A. Hogarth:
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. 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
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. 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?)
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