This week's Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is:Ten Books That Celebrate Diversity and Diverse Characters. I often don't really notice if I'm reading a "diverse" book. Unless it's specifically about the struggles of a marginalized person or group of people being marginalized, it's just, you know, a book. But there are a few that come to mind - both favourites I've already read and some I'm really looking forward to reading.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson - David Levithan and John Green
Underground to Canada - Barbara SmuckerA Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
She Is Not Invisible - Marcus SedgwickTales of the City - Armistead Maupin
Before Night Falls - Reinaldo ArenasDance Me Outside - W.P. Kinsella
And a few I'm looking forward to reading:
When Everything Feels Like the Movies - Raziel ReidThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman AlexieThe Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
This is really just a tiny sliver of the amazing world of diverse books easily available to anyone lucky enough to possess a library card. I can think of so many more diverse books and authors as I type - Isabel Allende, Toni Morrison, Ivan E. Coyote, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Claudia Rankine, Sabrina Ramnanan, Celeste Ng.... the list goes on and on. And I don't even consider myself to be someone who reads diversely enough. There's a whole wide world out there to be discovered! So over to you - which books were on your list of diverse authors and characters this week?
