This year, reading with The Diverse Books Club has been a ton of fun. It has opened up my reading tastes in a lot of ways and introduced me to books I never would have picked up otherwise. I’m so glad to have been a part since the beginning.
[Pictured is three piles of books that were Diverse Book Club selections divided into Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult]
The titles I’ve bolded are ones I have read:
January- Adoption & Fostering
- Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (Adult)
- Forever or a Long, Long Time by Caela Carter (Middle Grade)
February- Chronic Illness
- Left Neglected by Lisa Genova (Adult)
- Caleb & Kit by Beth Vrabel (Middle Grade)
March- Women in Science
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (Adult)
- Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science by Jeannine Atkins (Middle Grade)
April- Class & Poverty
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Adult)
- Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (Middle Grade)
May- Mental Health
- Sparrow by Sarah Moon (Young Adult)
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (Young Adult)
Summer Reading
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy (Adult)
- Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Young Adult)
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward (Adult)
- Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater by Michael Sokolove (Adult)
- Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch (Adult)
- Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed (Young Adult)
- America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo (Adult)
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Adult)
- Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Young Adult)
- The Secret Loves of Geeks by Margaret Atwood et al. (Adult)
- Dear Martin: A Novel by Nic Stone (Young Adult)
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele (Adult)
- Human Acts by Han Kang (Adult)
- Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart (Adult)
- Far From the Tree by Robin Benway (Young Adult)
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (Adult)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (Adult)
- Orphan Island by Laurel Synder (Middle Grade)
- Breakout by Kate Messner (Middle Grade)
- Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez (Middle Grade)
- Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan (Middle Grade)
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds (Middle Grade)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Adult)
September- Stories of Strong Women
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (Adult)
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (Adult)
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Adult)
- The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, and Other Dauntless Girls edited by Jessica Spotswood (Young Adult)
October- Books in Translation
- The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Young Adult)
- Maresi by Maria Turtshaninoff (Young Adult)
November- Indigenous Perspectives
- Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga (Adult)
- The Birchbark House by Louise Edrich (Middle Grade)
December- Modern Slavery
- The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan (Young Adult)
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed (Middle Grade)
I don’t always like to toot my own horn but I think I did a pretty great job keeping up with the DBC selections in 2018. Unfortunately, the DBC has decided to end but it was a great experience. I’m glad I recently joined some other book clubs to help me continue to expand my reading life. If you want to check them out I’ve linked them below:
Word Between Worlds on Bookstagram
Diverse Classics on Bookstagram
The Stacks Pod Book Club. You must be a supporter on Patreon to be in the book club