In 2018, I did the diversity challenge from Pam at an Unconventional Librarian.  Although she’s a children’s and YA book blogger, I’ve included some of my diverse adult reading as well – I’ll note if that’s the case.  I realized I didn’t post my updates the whole second half of 2018 – bolded titles are the ones I read since that update.  Though the original challenge was just to read one book in each category, I found the categories a helpful way to make sure that I was diversifying my diversity, if that makes sense.

[2/23/19 edit] I forgot that when I started this challenge, I was only including #OwnVoices authors.  Going back now to star those here that I know to be #OwnVoices in the category listed.

1.  Written by or about a person of Hispanic origin:
   

   

   

   

• *Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel Jose Older
• *Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
• *A Dash of Trouble. Love Sugar Magic #1 by Anna Meriano
• *The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
• *The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• *The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• *The Wild Book by Juan Villoro. Translated by Lawrence Schimel.
• *The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
• *Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older
• *A Festival of Ghosts by William Alexander

2.      A book in which a character suffers from a mental illness:

• *Real Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
• After Zero by Christina Collins

3.   *A book written by or about someone on the spectrum:

• All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater. Narrated by Thom Rivera
• Watchdog by Will McIntosh
• The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
• * The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (adult)

4.  A book with an African-American [or African] young woman as the main character:
   

   

   

   

• *Sky Full of Stars by Linda Williams Jackson
• *Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
• Dragons and Marshmallows. Zooey and Sassafras Book 1 by Asia Citro
• *Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• *Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• *The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
• Upside-Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins
• *Binti: the Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• *Dread Nation: Rise Up by Justina Ireland
• *Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
• Creature of the Pines. Unicorn Rescue Society #1 by Adam Gidwitz and Hatem Aly
• City of Islands by Kali Wallace
• *Minecraft: the Crash by Tracey Baptiste

5.  A book containing an Asian main character
   

   

   

   

   

   

• *Jasmine Toguchi: Super Sleuth by Debbi Michiko Florence
• Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
• *Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
• *Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
• *The Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn (adult)
• *Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn  (adult)
• *The Serpent’s Secret. Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Book 1 by Sayantani DasGupta
• *The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan and Tom Knight
• Bluecrowne by Kate Milford
• *Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz
• *Warcross by Marie Lu
• * The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (adult)
• Wizardmatch by Lauren Magaziner
• *Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien

6.  A book with an illustrator of color
   

   

•  *Crown: an Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
• *Whoosh: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton and Don Tate
• *Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo and Lin Wang.
• *Under the Christmas Tree by Nikki Grimes. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• *The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer. Illustrated by Ekua Holmes.

7.  A book with an LGBT main character
   

   

• *Spinning by Tillie Walden
• *The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. Read by Christian Coulson.
• *Everfair by Nisi Shawl (adult)
• That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
• Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (adult)
• *Maggie & Abby’s Neverending Pillow Fort by Will Taylor (same-sex parents)

8.  A graphic novel

• *Real Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
• *Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
• *The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
• *Where’s Halmoni? By Julie Kim
• *Suee and the Shadow by Ginger Ly and Molly Park
• *Monsters Beware! By Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado
• Backstagers Vol 1: Rebels Without Applause by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, Walter Baiamonte
• *Monstress Vol 2: the Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (adult)

9.  A book with a Muslim main character

• *Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan
• *Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
• *Alif the Unseen  by G. Willow Wilson (adult)

10.  A book written by or for African-American young men
    

    

    

    

• *Crown: an Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
• *Juba! by Walter Dean Myers
• *To Catch a Cheat by Varian Johnson
• *Black Panther: the Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith
• *Ghost Boys by Jewel Parker Rhodes
• Ice Wolves by Amie Kaufman
• *The Stupendous Adventures of Mighty Marty Hayes by Lora L. Hyler

11.  A book in which the author or narrator has a physical disability
    

    

    

• The Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari and Patrice Barton
• You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green
• The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• The Silver Mask by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
• The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
• The Golden Tower by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

12.  A book about children during the Holocaust.

• The Dollmaker of Krakow by R.M. Romero

13.  A book with a Native main character (I added this to the original challenge)
    

    

    

• *When a Ghost Talks, Listen by Tim Tingle
• R is for Rebel by J. Anderson Coats (fantasy Native, not based on any one Native Earth culture)
• *Water Walker  by Joanne Robertson

This year, I’m going to try the Diversity Reading Challenge over at Celebrity Readers – hopefully I can catch up with the January theme that I already missed. Please share if you have any good titles for me that would fit with their themes!