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Diversify Your Read

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4 participants (54 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Diversity is windows & mirrors. Mirrors: to see ourselves in books. Windows: to stretch our imagination & allow us to experience others’ cultures & experiences

Intentionally reading books that are written by or about:
  1. Different cultural backgrounds 
  2. Translated works
  3. Different genres
  4. By or focusing on marginalized communities (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, etc)

Challenge Books

All books added
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

Molly Jong-Fast

6 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

256 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction literary magical realism emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

Bright Falls #2

Ashley Herring Blake

11 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

310 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

The Women Could Fly

Megan Giddings

283 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction dystopian fantasy lgbtqia+ dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

Faceless Killers

Kurt Wallander (Chronological Order) #2

Henning Mankell

288 pages • paperback • 1991

fiction crime mystery thriller mysterious medium-paced
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

Bloodmarked

The Legendborn Cycle #2

Tracy Deonn

561 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen

Saving Five

Amanda Nguyen

224 pages • paperback • 2025

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

343 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • paperback • 2016

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced