In this challenge, try to read at least one book by a woman, a man, and a non-binary person from each of these identity groups: Black, Indigenous, Latine, Asian/Pacific Islander, Arab, and White.

Looking to read authors from a variety of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender identities? Curious about how your reading breaks down along these lines? Me too!

These identities (and the boundaries between them) are complex and contested, and there's an inherent weirdness to categorizing other people. All designations I've made are based on my best effort to find how authors self-identify. The goal is to read works from a variety of perspectives, especially underrepresented ones, rather than giving more airtime to people from groups that need it least.

These identities are also not monoliths — there is no one "Black perspective," for example — which is why this isn't my only reading goal/challenge. It is the only one that other reading challenges on The StoryGraph didn't cover, however.

(This is the challenge for 2023. You can also look at the 2020, 2021, and 2022 challenges, including all the titles that readers previously added for these same prompts!)