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Diversity in Reading - 2022
How to Participate:
1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must choose a goal for the challenge.
2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.
Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!
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P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!
Participants:
Amy - 17/15 - completed!
Andrea - 2/20
AnnaM - 0/15
Anu - 10/10 - completed!
Carmen - 150/150 - completed!
Carol - 48/48 - completed!
Chrissie - 30/30 - completed!
CrazyAsACupcake - 13/10 - completed!
Emma - 30/50
Evil Secret - 0/30
Gail - 43/36 - completed!
Irphen - 15/15 - completed!
Janine - 41/20 - completed!
Julie - 3/10
Justicia - 2/5
Kendra - 40/40 - completed!
Kszr - 25/25 - completed!
Kristina - 40/40 - completed
Kylie - 0/20
Laura - 4/20
Laura Jane - 0/10
Laureen - 35/25 - completed!
Lauri - 0/20
Lindsey - 0/48
Lisa - 0/5
Lucy - 0/12
Lynette - 0/30
Lynn - 0/50
Manda - 14/18
Marissa - 0/10
Maureen - 0/10
Megan - 84/50 - completed!
mussolet - 0/12
Nedge - 0/20
Nicole - 0/30
oshizu - 60/60 - completed!
Pang - 3/12
Patricia - 0/6
Rachael - 5/5 - completed!
Rachael (msg 53) - 16/30
Rachel - 7/15
ReGina - 50/50 - completed!
rika - 19/20
Sarah - 10/10 - completed!
Shelley - 50/36 - completed!
Suzanne - 73/50 - completed!
Sylvia - 0/12
TerryJane - 109/65 - completed!
Toni - 8/50
Tresdivas - 0/10
Ushashi - 6/20
Willemijn - 1/5
Wolf (Alpha) - 0/50
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Please add me in for 24 books for now.43 /
Race or Ethnicity
born in US, other than "white"
* Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
* Attica Locke: Bluebird, Bluebird
* Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys
* Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper
* Esi Edugyan: Washington Black
* Etaf Rum: A Woman Is No Man
* Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
* James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
* Julia Alvarez: Yo!
* Lauren Wilkinson: American Spy
* Louise Erdrich: The Sentence
* Marcie Rendon: Murder on the Red River
* Michelle Obama: Becoming
* Naomi Hirahara: Clark and Division
* Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
* Nikole Hannah-Jones: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
* Sejal Badani: The Storyteller's Secret
Geography, Nationality, or Native Language
Not born in US. Possibily doesn't live in US. Could be translated. Purposely limited number of England's authors listed here, read 16, added 1.
* Art Spiegelman: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - Sweden
* Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: Stay with Me -Nigeria
* Banana Yoshimoto: Goodbye Tsugumi -Japan
* Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves -Australia
* Elif Shafak: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World -Turkey
* Estelle Ryan: The Gauguin Connection -South Africa
* Hiromi Kawakami: The Nakano Thrift Shop -Japan
* Jane Harper: Force of Nature -Australia
* Jesse Q. Sutanto: Dial A for Aunties -Indonesia/Singapore
* Jussi Adler-Olsen: The Keeper of Lost Causes -Denmark
* Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans -Ecuador
* Kim Izzo: Seven Days in May -Canada
* Louise Penny: All the Devils Are Here -Canada
* Maj Sjöwall: The Laughing Policeman -Sweden
* Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad -Canada
* Marianne Cronin: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot -UK
* Olga Tokarczuk: The Lost Soul -Poland
* Paula Hawkins: Into the Water - Zimbabwe
* Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold -Japan
* Victoria Mas: The Mad Women's Ball -France
Sexual Orientation
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
* Graham Norton: A Keeper
* Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time
* Nicola Upson: The Secrets of Winter: A Josephine Tey Mystery
* Nicola Upson: Nine Lessons
Disabilities
* Sara Nović: Girl at War
Religious / Spritual Beliefs
only if it doesn't fit in any other category or it (subjectively) appears to be on a much higher plane than the other categories.
Gender
None will be listed. I have eliminated all white males who do not fit in any other category above.
I would like to participate. Progress: 48/48 (edited from 100)
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Please sign me up for 5 books.COMPLETED: 5/5
1. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman (different race) finished 8 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Mort by Terry Pratchett (different gender) finished 11 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent (different nationality) finished 20 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review previously written
4. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (different time period) finished 6 February, ⭐⭐⭐ with review.
5. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (different first language) finished 17 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
🏳🌈 DIVERSITY IN READING - Yearly ChallengeDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2022
Progress: 109/65 -- COMPLETE
Race or Ethnicity
🏳🌈 Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting (Italian ethnicity)
🏳🌈 How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Asian / China-born American)
🏳🌈 On Juneteenth (Black)
🏳🌈 Such a Fun Age (Black)
🏳🌈 Jazz (Black)
🏳🌈 On What Grounds (author pair of Italian ethnicity)
🏳🌈 Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther (Black)
🏳🌈 Miles Morales: Spider-Man (Black)
🏳🌈 Why Not Me? (Indian ethnicity)
🏳🌈 Fifty Words for Rain (Black)
🏳🌈 Higher Is Waiting (Black)
🏳🌈 A Holly Jolly Diwali (Indian ethnicity) (also Canadian)
🏳🌈 Future Home of the Living God (Native American)
🏳🌈 The Library of Lost Things (Cuban heritage)
🏳🌈 A Deadly Inside Scoop (Black)
Geography, Nationality or Native Language
🏳🌈 Remember Me? (British)
🏳🌈 The Cellist of Sarajevo (Canadian)
🏳🌈 A Whole New World (British-American)
🏳🌈 Stories from Xenophon: excerpts (Greek)
🏳🌈 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Swedish)
🏳🌈 Home (Nigerian-American)
🏳🌈 The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator (Swedish)
🏳🌈 The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive (English)
🏳🌈 The Bookwanderers (English)
🏳🌈 Instructions for Dancing (Jamaican-American)
🏳🌈 Pushing Up Daisies (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 Berry Murderous (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 Deathbed of Roses (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 Orange Juiced (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 Keeping Mums (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 Hibiscus Homicide (New Zealander)
🏳🌈 An Enemy of the People (Norwegian)
🏳🌈 The Art of War (Chinese)
🏳🌈 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (British)
🏳🌈 Zorba the Greek (Greek)
🏳🌈 The Tale of Genji (Japanese)
🏳🌈 Matilda (Welsh)
🏳🌈 The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (English)
🏳🌈 A Gilded Cage (Canadian)
🏳🌈 The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Cuban-Italian)
🏳🌈 Pierre and Jean (French)
🏳🌈 The Elegance of the Hedgehog (French)
Gender Identity
🏳🌈 Eye for Eye (Male)
🏳🌈 Every Last Fear (Male)
🏳🌈 H is for Hawk (Non-binary)
🏳🌈 The Guide (Male)
🏳🌈 Gwendy's Button Box (Male)
🏳🌈 Of Mice and Men (Male)
🏳🌈 When the Killing's Done (Male)
🏳🌈 Forrest Gump (Male)
🏳🌈 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics (Male)
🏳🌈 The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II (Male)
🏳🌈 Before I Let Go (Non-Binary) (also autistic, queer and Dutch)
🏳🌈 Dog on It (Male)
🏳🌈 The Red Lotus (Male)
🏳🌈 Sasha Masha (Transgender)
🏳🌈 The Tilted World (Male)
🏳🌈 Survive the Night (Male)
🏳🌈 The Library of Ever (Male)
🏳🌈 The Lost Book of the Grail (Male)
🏳🌈 Authority (Male)
🏳🌈 Light from Uncommon Stars (Transwoman) (also queer and Japanese-American)
🏳🌈 We Are Watching Eliza Bright (Transgender) (also non-binary and queer)
🏳🌈 Beautiful Ruins (Male)
🏳🌈 The Prince and the Pauper (Male)
🏳🌈 Angels & Demons (Male)
🏳🌈 Hiroshima (Male)
🏳🌈 To Dance with the White Dog (Male)
Sexual Orientation
🏳🌈 Seriously... I'm Kidding (Lesbian)
🏳🌈 The House in the Cerulean Sea Sneak Peek (Asexual)
🏳🌈 False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Gay) (also Dutch)
🏳🌈 Little Comfort (Gay)
🏳🌈 Crying in H Mart (Bisexual) (also mixed race Korean-Jewish American born in Korea)
🏳🌈 The Chosen and the Beautiful (Queer)
🏳🌈 Shadow of Night (Same-sex marriage)
🏳🌈 Pieces of Her (LGBT)
🏳🌈 The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Homosexual, male)
🏳🌈 Mermaid of Venice (Lesbian)
🏳🌈 The Professor's House (Lesbian)
🏳🌈 So Lucky (Lesbian)
Disabilities
🏳🌈 The Westing Game (Depression)
🏳🌈 Binti (Scoliosis)
🏳🌈 The Scorpio Races (Addison's disease)
🏳🌈 The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (Asperger syndrome)
🏳🌈 The Matzah Ball (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) (also Jewish)
🏳🌈 Stalking Jack the Ripper (Lyme Disease)
🏳🌈 America Is Immigrants (Deaf)
🏳🌈 Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Severe anxiety disorder, moderate clinical depression, mild self-harm issues, impulse control disorder; avoidance personality disorder; depersonalization disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; trichotillomania; dermatillomania; agoraphobia; anthropophobia; also physical conditions of rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune issues)
🏳🌈 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Congenital double inguinal hernia; also emigrated from USA and became British citizen; converted to Anglicanism)
🏳🌈 When No One Is Watching (ADHD) (Also black; American but lives mainly in Martinique)
🏳🌈 Even If We Break (Autistic) (also Dutch, queer, non-binary)
Religious or Spiritual Beliefs
🏳🌈 Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Catholic)
🏳🌈 My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life (Jewish)
🏳🌈 The Girl in His Shadow (LDS/Mormon)(Written by an author pair, one of whom is LDS and American. The other author is Canadian.)
🏳🌈 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Jewish)
🏳🌈 Fan Fiction (Jewish)
🏳🌈 Faithful (Jewish)
🏳🌈 A Night Divided (LDS/Mormon)
🏳🌈 A Cat Was Involved (Jewish)
🏳🌈 The Night Masquerade (Agnostic)
🏳🌈 Princess Academy (LDS/Mormon)
🏳🌈 The Book of Magic (Jewish)
🏳🌈 A Soul in Torment / Dead Air / Where the Heart Is (Catholic)
🏳🌈 Healing / Secrets (Catholic)
🏳🌈 The Play's the Thing / The Grey Lady (Catholic)
🏳🌈 The Silver Cord / In Memorium (Catholic)
🏳🌈 Doctor Zhivago (Russian who was Jewish at birth, converted to Christianity (Russian Orthodox Church))
🏳🌈 Passover Haggadah: A Messianic Celebration (Messianic Jewish)
🏳🌈 Once Upon an Eid (Muslim)
I will sign up for 15 books for now!17/15-- Challenge Complete!
1. Asian (Phillipino)-- The Friend Zone
2. Norwegian-- The Heart Keeper
3. Male-- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
4. Jewish-- Those Who Save Us
5. African-American Woman-- No Child...
6. LGBTQ-- The Paying Guests
7. Cuban-- Next Year in Havana
8. Jamaican-- The Sun Is Also a Star
9. Southern-- Wise Blood
10. Panamanian-- The Marshmallow House: A Book About The Importance of Creativity
11. Canadian-- The Last Plane
12. Latino Woman-- Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
13. Christian Author-- 365 Ways to Love Your Child: Turning Little Moments Into Lasting Memories
14. Indigenous American-- Flight
15. LGBTQ-- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
16. Rwandan/Genocide Survivor/Refugee: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
17. Transgender-- Mad Honey
0/10Thank you for organizing this! I'll read at least 10 books.
Hi Megan,Great challenge! Please sign me up for 20 books
I'm in for 50!1. Pakistan, Muslim - Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed - completed January 2022
2. England - Castle Dor Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Quiller-Couch - completed January 2022
3. Kenya/England - The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten - completed January 2022
4. Canada - The Maid by Nita Prose - completed January 2022
5. African American - A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow - completed January 2022
6. African American - Night Song by Beverly Jenkins - completed January 2022
7. Indian - The Wedding Setup: A Short Story by Sonali Dev - completed January 2022
8. Jewish - The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker - completed January 2022
9. African-American - The Cowboy's Claim by Nina Crespo - completed February 2022
10. Orphan, foster, poverty - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Robinson - completed February 2022
11. Argentinian, Latinx-American, immigrant - Lobizona by Romina Garber - completed February 2022
12. Polish, written in polish - Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David French - completed February 2022
13. African-American - When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen - completed February 2022
14. African-American - Survival of the Thickest: Essays by Michelle Buteau - completed February 2022
15. Spain, in translation - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos RuizZafon, translated by Lucia Graves - completed March 2022
16. England - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - completed March 2022
17. African-American - Indigo by Beverly Jenkins - completed March 2022
18. African-American - The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning - completed March 2022
19. Germany, lesbian - Departure from the Script by Jae - completed March 2022
20. Asian-American - Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn - completed March 2022
21. Argentina, Latinx-American, immigrant - Cazadora by Romina Garber - completed March 2022
22. Neurodivergent - Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire - completed March 2022
23. Gender queer - Gallant b V. E. Schwab - completed March 2022
24. Black, England - The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask - completed March 2022
25. Bisexual - Show Up by Renee Dahlia - completed March 2022
26. Poland, written in Polish - The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David French - completed April 2022
27. Bisexual - Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur - completed April 2022
28. African-American - Topaz by Beverly Jenkins - completed April 2022
29. Nigerian-American - Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - completed April 2022
30. Mexican-American - The Hacienda by Isabel Canas - completed April 2022
31. Jewish - True Pretenses by Rose Lerner - completed April 2022
32. Lesbian - The Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn - completed April 2022
33. Chinese-American - Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li - completed April 2022
34. Australian - The Lost Man by Jane Harper - completed April 2022
35. Sweden, translated from Swedish - Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren, translated by Veronica and Paul Britton-Austin - completed May 2022
36. Neurodiverse - Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire - completed May 2022
37. African-American - Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson - completed May 2022
38. African-American - The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings - completed May 2022
39. African-American - Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins - completed May 2022
40. Polish, in translation - Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David French - completed June 2022
41. Bisexual - Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur - completed June 2022
42. African-American, bisexual, lesbian, Chinese-American, Native American, Japanese-American, Mexican-American,
Indian-American - The Vintage Book of American Women Writers edited by Elaine Showalter - completed June 2022
43. African-American - The Taming of Jessi Rose by Beverly Jenkins - completed June 2022
44. English - Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal - completed June 2022
45. Japanese, translated from Japanese into English - At the End of the Matinee by Keiichiro Hirano, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter - completed July 2022
46. Bisexual - Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur - completed July 2022
47. Mexican-American - The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - completed July 2022
48. Australian - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill - completed July 2022
49. Bisexual - Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey - completed July 2022
50. Jewish - Listen to the Moon by Rose Lerner - completed July 2022
51. Jewish - A Taste of Honey by Rose Lerner - completed August 2022
52. Chinese, immigrant - Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang - completed August 2022
53. African-American - The Witchery by S. Isabelle - completed August 2022
54. English - The It Girl by Ruth Ware - completed August 2022
55. Canadian - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien - completed August 2022
56. Jewish - One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle - completed August 2022
57. African-American - The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope - completed August 2022
58. Nigerian-American - Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor - completed September 2022
59. Nigerian-American - Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor - completed September 2022
60. African-American - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby - completed September 2022
61. England - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson - completed September 2022
62. Latine-American - What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster - completed September 2022
63. African-American - Before the Dawn by Beverly Jenkins - completed September 2022
64. African-American - Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins - completed September 2022
65. Gay, neurodivergent, Australian - Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby - completed October 2022
66. English and French - Madam by Phoebe Wynne - completed October 2022
67. Indian-American - The Emma Project by Sonali Dev - completed October 2022
68. Indigenous Chicana - Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine - completed October 2022
69. African-American - The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - completed October 2022
70. Black, Canadian, non-binary - Witchmark by C.L. Polk - completed October 2022
71. Black, Canadian, non-binary - Stormsong by C.L. Polk - completed October 2022
72. Black,Canadian, non-binary - Soulstar by C.L. Polk - completed October 2022
73. African-American - A Chance at Love by Beverly Jenkins - completed October 2022
74. Nigerian-American - Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo Okparanta - completed November 2022
75. Canadian - Sorry I Missed You by Suzy Krause - completed November 2022
76. Spanish - The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas - completed November 2022
77. African-American, Lesbian - An Untamed State by Roxane Gay - completed November 2022
78. African-American - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - completed November 2022
79. Pagan - Yule: A Celebration of Light and Warmth by Dorothy Morrison - completed December 2022
80. Orphan, unhoused, indigent - The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson - completed December 2022
81. Jewish, queer - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - completed December 2022
82. Indian-American - The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman - completed December 2022
83. Turkish, written in Turkish - Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin, translated by John W. Baker - completed December 2022
84. Native American - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - completed December 2022
84/50 - completed!
Welcome to all our challenge participants!What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
~ Edward Kennedy
Greetings! This is my first challenge and would like to set the goal at 30. Progress:0/30
I'd like to join for 10 please :)1. Cinderella Is Dead (different race)
2. Battle Royale (different nationality/language - translated from Japanese)
3. Shine (different race and takes place in South Korea)
4. Bright (different race and takes place in South Korea)
5. Running Girl (different race (one MC) and different religion (other MC))
6. Boy, Everywhere (different nationality - Syrian MC - different religion)
7. Strange Weather in Tokyo (different nationality/language - translated from Japanese)
8. The People in the Trees (different race (author))
9. We Had to Remove This Post (different nationality/language - translated from Dutch)
10. Kitchen (different nationality/language - translated from Japanese)
11. How We Fall Apart (different race)
12. Convenience Store Woman (different nationality/language - translated from Japanese)
13. Almond (different nationality/language - translated from Korean)
13/10
Hi I’d like to join the challenge I’ll set a goal of 20 books for now, I may increase it if I reach my goal."To participate, simply choose how many books you would like to read for this challenge. To qualify for this challenge, the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you. The difference could be in race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc"
Duration - 01/01/2022-31/12/2022
Progress: 4/20
Books read:
Home Stretch by Graham Norton 01-03 January - LGBTQIA+ characters
Ash before Oakby Jeremy Cooper 04-07 January - mental illness
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 08/01-17/01 - race
Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff 18-22 Jan - mental health
DIVERSITY IN READINGJanuary 1, 2022-December 31, 2022
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” - Malorie Blackman. When we read about someone different from us, we learn what makes us different, but also what makes us similar. To participate, simply choose how many books you would like to read for this challenge. To qualify for this challenge, the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you. The difference could be in race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc.
I am a white female raised in the midwestern U.S. (That helps give some context for authors "different" from me! 😊
I'll start with 50. :)
19/50 as of March 11!
🐧1. Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross #7) by James Patterson
Patterson is a male.
January 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧2. Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross #8) by James Patterson
Patterson is a male.
January 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧3. Day of Infamy by Walter Lord
Lord is a male and is no longer alive.
January 16 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧4. I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Everett is a black male.
January 17 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧5. The House Without a Key (Charlie Chan #1) by Earl Derr Biggers
Biggers is a male who is no longer alive.
January 20 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧6. The Careful Use of Compliments (Isabel Dalhousie #4) by Alexander McCall Smith
Smith is a male born in Africa and living in Scotland.
January 29 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧6. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson is a male.
January 30 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐧7. The Black Stallion Returns (Black Stallion #2) by Walter Farley
Farley is a male who is no longer alive.
January 31 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘8. The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
Hiraide is a male from Japan.
February 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘9. Lionboy (Lionboy #1) by Zizou Corder
Zizou Corder is a mother-daughter duo, one of whom is black.
February 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘10. Euphoria by Lily King
King is a white female raised in Massachusetts, on the east coast of the U.S.
February 8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘11. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59 #1) by Attica LockeTalia Hibbert
Locke is a black female.
February 12 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘12. The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross #9) by James Patterson
Patterson is a male.
February 17 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💘13. Raybearer (Raybearer #1) by Jordan Ifueko
Ifueko is a black female.
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💘14. Get a Life, Chloe Brown (Brown Sisters #1) by Talia Hibbert
Hibbert is a black female.
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💘15. Granta 148: Summer Fiction edited by Sigrid Rausing
Rausing is a female living in Sweden.
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💘16. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Oluo is a queer black female.
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💘17. Back Bay (Peter Fallon #1) by William Martin
Martin is a male.
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💘18. The Chase (Lionboy #2) by Zizou Corder
Zizou Corder is a mother-daughter duo, one of whom is black.
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✨19. The Truth by Camille Pagán
Zizou Corder is a mother-daughter duo, one of whom is black.
March 11 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Berendt is a male.
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
Cep is a white female who was raised on the east coast of the US, graduated from an Ivy League school (Harvard), and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the UK. Very different from myself!
London Bridges (Alex Cross #10) by James Patterson
Patterson is a male.
DIVERSITY IN READINGJanuary 1, 2022-December 31, 2022
7/15
✔ 1. Girls of Paper and Fire By Natasha Ngan 2/14 5 stars
✔ 2. Delilah Green Doesn't Care ByAshley Herring Blake 5/18 5 stars
✔ 3. Like a Sister By Kellye Garrett 4/11 5 stars
✔ 4. The After Party By A.C. Arthur 5/5 4.5 stars
✔ 5.A Lesson Before Dying By Ernest J. Gaines 2/19 3 stars
✔ 6.Dark Ghost By Christine Feehan 9/26 4 stars
✔ 7. I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys 11/30 5 stars
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I'll participate with 5 to start off with if that is ok xx
Finished: 2022/04/02I'd love to do this as well. Setting my goal to 10 books for now, since I'm considering to pick one or two specific differences.
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Gender
Language
Sexual Orientation
Geography
Birthmonth
Relationship/Kin
Sign me up for 10 books10/10-COMPLETED
✅1)The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian(8/7/22)
✅2)Wonder(1/12/22)
✅3)American Born Chinese(17/3/22)
✅4)The Hate U Give(24/4/22)
✅5)Thirteen Reasons Why(7/11/22)
✅6)The Skin I'm In(2/10/22)
✅7)Boy Meets Boy(16/8/22)
✅8)Noughts & Crosses(26/9/22)
✅9)Ten Things I Hate About Me(12/9/22)
✅10)Rainbow Boys(4/10/22)
Diversity in Reading 2022Duration: January 1-December 31, 2022
Progress: 7/10
1. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas (2/27)
2. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (5/18)
3. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (7/9)
4. Turtle Under Ice by Juleah del Rosario (8/7)
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (10/17)
6. Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (11/18)
7. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (11/29)
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Welcome to everyone who is joining the challenge!Diversity is about all of us and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
What a great challenge, Megan!I'm not sure what I'll be reading yet, but please sign me up for 35 books. Thank you.
Progress: 60/60 (completed 29 Aug)
1. Asia (China): The History of Bees (#wit, Norwegian)
2. Ethnicity (African-American) More Myself: A Journey (#ownvoices)
3. Multi-racial: Under the Knife
4. Ethnicity (African American): Every Reasonable Doubt [(#ownvoices)
5. Europe (Spain): [book:All This I Will Give to You|37673134] (#wit, Spanish)
6. Asia (Japan): The Makioka Sisters (#ownvoices)
7. Ethnicity (Jewish): The Postman (#ownvoices)
8. Mixed heritage: Jade War
9. Ethnicity (African-American) In Firm Pursuit (#ownvoices)
10. Ethnicity (African-American): My Love Story (#ownvoices)
11. Asia (S. Korea): Nowhere to Be Found (#wit, Korean)
12. Asia (Japan): Of Dogs and Walls (#wit, Japanese)
13. Asia (Singapore): The Frangipani Tree Mystery (#ownvoices)
14. Ethnicity (African-American) Murder on the Down Low [(#ownvoices)
15. Europe (Poland, etc.): [book:Flights|36885304] (#wit, Polish)
16. Mixed heritage: Jade Legacy
17. Ethnicity (African-American): When No One Is Watching (#ownvoices)
18. Sexuality (Non-binary): Gender Queer (#ownvoices)
19. Ethnicity (African-American): Attorney-Client Privilege (#ownvoices)
20. Asia (India): Midnight at Malabar House (#ownvoices)
21. Sexuality (trans): Confessions of the Fox (#ownvoices)
22. Sexuality (gay): The Long Call
23. Health (Addiction): Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
24. Ethnicity (African-American): Lawful Deception (#ownvoices)
25. Asia (Singapore): Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials (#ownvoices)
26. Asia (Japan): Where the Wild Ladies Are (#wit, Japanese)
27. Place (Argentina): Little Eyes (#wit, Spanish)
28. Indigenous: Trail of Lightning
29. Ethnicity (African-American): Their Eyes Were Watching God (#ownvoices)
30. Ethnicity (African-American): Murder in G Major
31. Place (South Africa): Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (#ownvoices)
32. Sexuality (lesbian): A Desolation Called Peace
33. Immigrants: Miracle Creek
34. Sexuality (bisexual): Tomboyland: Essays
35: Americas (Argentina) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories (#wit)
36. Sexuality (transgender author): Pet
37. Sexuality (nonbinary intersex): The Deep
38. Native American: Black Sun
39. France (#wit): La Maison de Claudine
40. Native American: Fevered Star
41. Asia (Japan): The Cat Who Saved Books (#ownvoices)
42. Asia (Japan) Kamusari Tales Told at Night (#wit)
43. Southeast Asia (Singapore): The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (#ownvoices)
44. Sexuality (bi): River of Teeth
45: Ethnicity (African-American): The Ballad of Black Tom (#ownvoices)
46. Ethnicity (African-American): The Quarter Storm
47. Ethnicity (Chinese): Inspector Chen and Me: A Collection of Inspector Chen Stories
48. Sexuality (les): The Little Stranger (author)
49. Sexuality (Les): A Discovery of Witches
50. Oceania (NZ): The Ringmaster
51. Oceania (NZ): Containment
52. Oceania (NZ): The Nursing Home Murder (author)
53. Ethnicity (African-American): A Scandal in (#ownvoices)Brooklyn (#ownvoices)
54. Ethnicity (African-American): Happy Is On Hiatus (#ownvoices)
55. Africa (Tanzania): Hard Rain (Afrikaans, #wit)
56. Asia (China): Frontier (Chinese, #wit)
57. Asia (Malaysia): The Ghost Bride
58: Denmark (#wit): The Silent Women
59. South Africa: A Conspiracy of Mothers (#ownvoices)
60. Norway (#wit): Blind Goddess
East Asia: Japan: Malice
Oceania (Australia): What Alice Forgot
#wit: The Price of Paradise (Spanish, Cuba)
Diversity in Reading Progress: 6/20
*Race (Non-Indian subcontinent)
✅The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (USA)
✅ 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Turkey)
✅Animal Farm by Geroge Orwell (UK)
*Gender (Not cis-female)
✅Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*LGBT+
✅Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
*Language (Originally written in anything other than English or Bengali)
✅ The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Korean)
Diversity in Reading I haven't done this one before - I'm going to try for 25. Thank you!
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I'd like to sign up for 5 books, please. I'm going to aim for books by female authors from different nationalities. I enjoyed reading books "around the world" in previous years, and I'd really like to read less books written by men this year, compared to previous years.
Progress:
01. Netherlands: Schilderslief - Simone van der Vlugt
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I'm in for 10 books.3/10
1. Different Gender NOS4A2
2. Different Ability (TBI as a child) Cold Cold Heart
3. Different Sexual Orientation City of Girls
Welcome to all our new participants! Updated to hereDiversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
~ Marco Bizzarri
I'm in for 40 booksProgress so far: 40/40
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Ain't I a Woman
Ableism in Education
Squad
Love in the Library
A Rising Man
Harlem Shuffle
Our Dreams at Dusk
The Low, Low Woods
Goodnight Punpun
Spellbound
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Stacey's Extraordinary Words
Velvet was the Night
You Matter to Me
Eyes that Speak to the Stars
My Name is a Story
Magnolia Flower
Iron Widow
Nichijō
The Graveyard Apartment
Cutie Honey
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Four Aunties and a Wedding
A Tokyo Anthology
Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments
Kapaemahu
The Lost Ryū
My Heart is a Chainsaw
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Tale of Genji
Unconscious Bias in Schools
Call Me Athena
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Fry Bread
Love in the Library
Mexican Gothic
Planting Stories
Yes We Will
Arsenic and Adobo
Ancestor Approved
Deaf Republic
Iced in Paradise
Between Perfect and Real
Please sign me up for 10 books.Completed: 10/10
1. Different nationality
My Sister, the Serial Killer
2. Different religion
Brick Lane
3. Different scientific background (?)
The Selfish Gene
4. Different political views
1984
5. Different era
North and South
6. Different lifestyle (?)
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
7. Different race
The Bell Jar
8. Different sexual orientation
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
9. Different reality (?)
The Memory Police
10. Different format
Tintin au Congo
Hi Megan, pls sign me up for 12 books.DIVERSITY IN READING
January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” - Malorie Blackman. When we read about someone different from us, we learn what makes us different, but also what makes us similar. To participate, simply choose how many books you would like to read for this challenge. To qualify for this challenge, the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you. The difference could be in race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc.
I'd like to join with 18 books.Last year I read books from authors from 14 different countries without it being a challenge, so I'm happy with that. But I do hope to increase it to at least 18 this year.
Thanks for hosting Megan!
14/18
1. Where the Crawdads Sing (United States)
2. The Shadow Sister (United Kingdom)
3. I'm Traveling Alone (Norway)
4. Grand Hotel (Germany)
5. Noord (Belgium)
6. Britt-Marie Was Here (Sweden)
7. Beautiful World, Where Are You (Ireland)
8. Klara and the Sun (Japan)
9. The Promise (South-Africa)
10. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems (Somalia)
11. Childhood (Denmark)
12. Auschwitz Lullaby (Spain)
13. De naam (Czech republic)
14. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Australia)
Welcome to everyone! Just a few more days until the challenge begins!An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr
Hello! I would like to participate! Please sign me up for 15 books :-)DIVERSITY IN READING
January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022
1 - Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ( male author and from 18th century ) january
2 - Le papillon by Andrus Kivirähk ( male author and from an little known country; Estonia ) january
3 - The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories by Leonora Carrington ( english born Mexican artist and author )
4 - Le jeune acteur 1 - Aventures de Vincent Lacoste au cinéma by Riad Sattouf ( male author who grew up in the Middle East )
5 - Beowolf ( an old anglo-saxon poem from the 9th century by an anonymous author )
6 - A Man's Skin by Hubert
( gender and sexuality as well as cultural questions )
7 - Song of Susannah by Stephen King ( part of the series The Dark Tower, this book makes reference in its title to one of the main characters; a black dissabled and here pregnant woman )
8 - Suis-je hypersensible ?: Enquête sur un pouvoir méconnu by Fabrice Midal ( a french non fiction book about high sensitiveness )
9 - Zadig by Voltaire ( male author from the 18th century and the story deals with different cultures and social standars )
10 - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ( male author and the book is about oriental culture and philosophy )
11 - The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell ( russian culture and the wolf wilder concept )
12 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ( sexuality and on very different time period )
13 - The Sorceress: A Study In Middle Age Superstition ( male author, gender, witchcraft/superstition and a different time period )
14 - Kit's Wilderness by David Almond ( male author, cultural and social environment of ancient mining places )
15 - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ( gothic book but linked to the US, mix of colonial and local culture and different social standards )
Progress: 15/15
Hi Megan! I have to leave this challenge, I have signed up for too many. I'm sorry! :(
update to message 4.
Alyana wrote: "Hi Meghan! I have to leave this challenge, I have signed up for too many. I'm sorry! :(
update to message 4."
No worries, I’ll update the list. Thanks for letting me know
Lauri's Spot!Diversity in Reading 2022
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I'll give this a shot this year. Let's start my goal at 20.Progress: 8/50
1. Unfaithful (country of residence)
2. The Last Mile (gender)
3. The Maidens (gender and country of origin)
4. The Girl Before (gender and nationality)
5. Along Came a Spider (success/wealth)
6. My Sister, the Serial Killer (nationality)
7. When You Are Mine (gender and country of origin)
8. The Fourth Monkey (gender, family life)
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2025 Reading Challenge
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Transcendent Kingdom (other topics)
There There (other topics)
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Jim Butcher (other topics)Tommy Orange (other topics)
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January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” - Malorie Blackman. When we read about someone different from us, we learn what makes us different, but also what makes us similar. To participate, simply choose how many books you would like to read for this challenge. To qualify for this challenge, the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you. The difference could be in race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc.
Happy Reading!