Are you starting the Diverse Voices Reading Challenge in Beanstack or just looking for more diverse books to explore? We have a curated list of recommended books from each category in the Diverse Voices Reading Challenge! You can also find books in the LPCPL catalog, through Hoopla, and in Libby!
Women’s Voices
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera
Diverse Abilities
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Asian American Voices
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
LGBTQ+ Voices
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer
Refugee/Immigrant Voices
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
American Street by Ibi Zaboi
Race in America
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Hispanic/Latino American Voices
Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Poverty and Homelessness
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
$2.00 A Day by Kathryn Edin
The United States of Grace by Lenny Duncan
Indigenous Peoples Voices
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
African American Voices
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown