#DiversityBingo2017 September & October Wrap Up

PRACTICING JEWISH MC Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸YA contemporary novel with a black, Jewish, bisexual MC, bipolar rep, hard of hearing rep, and queer side characters that faces racism and sexism, and focuses on family dynamics. 🔸It also applies for: Black MC (Own Voices), Book by author of color, LGBTQIA+ MC of color

RETELLING W/ MC BELONGING TO LGBTQIA+ Ripped pages by M. Hollis ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸YA Rapunzel f/f retelling with queer and PoC rep.‬

ARAB MC (OWN VOICES) Nour by Nour Esam Zeyddan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸The real story of a young biracial, Muslim, refugee girl from Libya. 🔸It also applies for: Displaced MC, Own Voices, Book by author of color, Biracial MC (Own Voices), Black MC (Own Voices), Diverse Non-Fiction, Immigrant or Refugee MC.

#DiversityBingo2017 July & August Wrap Up

INDIAN MC (OWN VOICES): The library of fates by Aditi Khorana ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸Fantasy book based on Indian folklore that explores colonialism and intersectional feminism. 🔸It also applies for: MC of color in SFF, Book by author of color. 🔸You can read my review here: x

MC W/ AN UNDER-REPRESENTED BODY: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A graphic novel about a badass shapeshifter and cool villains. It's super fun and it features a fat MC and a disabled side character.

MC OF COLOR IN SFF: The tea dragon society by Katie O'Neill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸Super cute comic with beautiful illustrations; adorable dragons; queer, PoC, and disabled characters.

BIRACIAL MC (OWN VOICES): To all the boys I've loved before, P.S. I still love you, Always and forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸Cute YA Contemporary series with a Korean American MC. 🔸It also applies for: Book by author of color, PoC on the cover. LGBTQIA+

MC OF COLOR: Princess princess ever after by Katie O'Neill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A super cute comic about a fat princess and a PoC princess falling in love. 🔸It also applies for: MC w/ an under-represented body, MC of color in SFF, PoC om the cover.

VISUALLY IMPAIRED MC: The world of Ben Lighthart by Jaap ter Haar ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸The story of a young boy blinded by accident.

POC ON THE COVER: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸Story inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. 🔸It also applies for: Book by author of color, Black MC (own voices).

#DiversityBingo2017 June Wrap Up

PRACTICING JEWISH MC Knit one, girl two by Shira Glassman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A novella about two Jewish girls falling in love, one of them is lesbian and the other one is bisexual. Chubby love interest. Written by a bisexual Jewish author. 

BISEXUAL MC (OWN VOICES) Desayuno en Júpiter by Andrea Tomé ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A cute book featuring an interracial f/f romance between a Jewish bisexual girl, and a black (biracial) chubby lesbian girl. PoC, queer, disabled, and mentally ill side characters. 🔸It also applies for: Practicing Jewish MC, LGBTQIAP+ MC of color, PoC on the cover.

OWN VOICES LATINX MC Persona normal by Benito Taibo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A story about a young boy who discovers the magic of books and lives amazing adventures thanks to them. Set in Mexico and written by a Mexican author.

PANSEXUAL MC* The melody of you and me by M. Hollis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A super cute f/f interracial romance, with a pansexual MC and a lesbian Filipino LI.

MC ON THE ACE SPECTRUM (OWN VOICES) Thaw by Elyse Springer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A contemporary f/f romance with a biromantic asexual MC, written by a Jewish asexual queer author. 🔸You can read my review here: x

LGBTQIA+ MC OF COLOR Juliet takes a breath by Gabby Rivera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A book with a chubby lesbian Latina MC who's recently discovered feminism. 🔸You can read my review here: x 🔸It also applies for: MC w/ an under-represented body, Own voices Latinx MC, Book by author of color, POC on the cover. The paths we choose by M. Hollis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸NA f/f romance with a Brazilian queer chubby MC and a Cuban bisexual LI. 🔸It also applies for: Own voices Latinx MC, Book by author of color

INDIGENOUS MC (OWN VOICES) Love beyond body, space, and time by Hope Nicholson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸An indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi anthology.

DIVERSE NON-FICTION Frida Kahlo. Una biografía by María Hesse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A gorgeous illustrated book about the life of this famous Mexican painter. Queer, there, and everywhere by Sarah Prager ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸A book about queer historical figures who changed the world

#DiversityBingo2017 March Wrap Up

This month I've only read three books that fit for this challenge (and I've only been able to mark two squares), but they have been pretty great :)

ROMANCE W/ A TRANS MC 

-Don't feed the trolls by Erica Kudisch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It comes put next week and I highly recommend it. You can check my review here: X

RETELLING W/ MC BELONGING TO LGBTQIA+ 

-Peter Darling by Austin Chant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It also applies for: Romance with a trans MC, SFF with disabled MC, Own voices. You can check my review here: X

-Fairytales Slashed (Volume 7) by Samantha M. Derr (editor) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ You can check my review here: X

So here’s my teen Black History Month display. I didn’t realize until I was making the little author bios that I only have one male author. I promise I didn’t do it on purpose!! 

Nnedi Okorafor - Binti

Brandy Colbert - Pointe

Renee Walker - This Side of Home

Dhionelle Clayton - Tiny Pretty Things

Randi Pink - Into White

Tiffany D. Jackson - Allegedly

Imani Josey - The Blazing Star

Tanita S. Davis - Peas and Carrots

Octavia E. Butler - Fledgling

N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season

Jason Reynolds - All American Boys, When I Was the Greatest, The Boy in the Black Suit

Here are a few books I have for my Black History Month display at work. It’s more like Black Present Month because I’m focusing on more current authors than the usual Walter Dean Myers and over-used  biographies. I’m tagging it #readthemargin and will have short bios of all the author’s I’m featuring next month!

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis

Into White by Randi Pink

The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds