The Toast discussion

Is anyone planning on taking a stab at this? Some of the challenges are very Toasty. Here's the list (one of them's from Roxane!):

1. Read a book about sports.

2. Read a debut novel.

3. Read a book about books.

4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.

5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.

6. Read an all-ages comic.

7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.

8. Read a travel memoir.

9. Read a book you’ve read before.

10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location.

11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location.

12. Read a fantasy novel.

13. Read a nonfiction book about technology.

14. Read a book about war.

15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.

16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.

17. Read a classic by an author of color.

18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.

19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey (From Daniel José Older, author of Salsa Nocturna, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, and YA novel Shadowshaper)

20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel (From Sarah MacLean, author of ten bestselling historical romance novels)

21. Read a book published by a micropress. (From Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Marvel’s World of Wakanda, and the forthcoming Hunger and Difficult Women)

22. Read a collection of stories by a woman. (From Celeste Ng, author Everything I Never Told You and the forthcoming Little Fires Everywhere)

23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love. (From Ausma Zehanat Khan, author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series, including The Unquiet Dead, The Language of Secrets, and the forthcoming Among the Ruins)

24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color. (From Jacqueline Koyanagi, author of sci-fi novel Ascension)

I've done this the past couple of years - it's fun to match the books to my reading.

I'm going to see if I can do it reading all women of color.

Thanks for sharing! This looks fun!

Oh fun! I didn't do terribly well on the 2016 list, but I'm always up for trying again!

Melanie wrote: "I've done this the past couple of years - it's fun to match the books to my reading.

I'm going to see if I can do it reading all women of color."

Me too!! The sports one might be hard ...

I'm doing it! for the sports one, Lauren, I'm going to read Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

May I highly recommend for the sports choice a middle grade fiction written by a WoC?



It's about a 12 yo baseball fanatic and his baseball loving whole family, protag of color, and it's set in the 1970s. I'm not a sports fan but this author's other (debut) novel is my absolute favorite AA novel so I immediately borrowed it as soon as it got to the library and it was a good choice.

possible spoiler: (view spoiler)[ There may be some feels in this story. (hide spoiler)]

As for the rest of the choices, I'm going to do my best to read all WoC authors, and at the very least avoid all WM authors. (Especially dead WMs.)