2025 Reading Challenge discussion

from the 2019 diversity reading challenge listed here

Progress:

1. African (e.g, Ghanian, Nigerian)
📌 Zahrah the Windseeker
📌 Beasts Made of Night
📌 Freshwater

❌2. Agnostic, Athiest, or Humanist

3. Asexual or Aromantic
📌 Let's Talk About Love

4. Asian
*E Asia/Japan:📌I Love You So Mochi (Sarah Kuhn)
*E Asia/Japan:📌The Beast Player
*S. Asia/India: 📌You Bring the Distant Near
*E Asia/China 📌 Fresh off the Boat (Eddie Huang)
*E Asia/S. Korea (Asam): ✔️ Frankly in Love (David Yoon)
*SE Asia/Philippines 📌 Lalani of the Distant Sea
*SE Asia/Taiwan 📌 American Panda

5. Bisexual or Pansexual
✔️ The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

6. Black (e.g. African-American, Black British)
📌 Slay
📌 Let's Talk About Love

❌7. Buddhist

❌8. Christian-minority

9. Differently-Abled (e.g., Autistic, Deaf, Paraplegic)
✔️Song for a Whale
✔️El Deafo (Cecille Bell)

10. Gay Male or Lesbian Female
✔️ Fun Home
✔️ Wayward Son

11. Hindu
📌 You Bring the Distant Near

12. Immigrant
✔️ Other Words for Home

❌13. Incarcerated or Institutionalized:

❌14. Indigenous (e.g., Aboriginal, Inuit, Mojave)

❌15. Jewish

16. Latin American
✔️ They Both Die at the End (Adam Silvera)
✔️ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

17. Living with a Mental Health or Cognitive Disability
📌 Freshwater

❌18. Low-Income or Financially Insecure

19. Middle Eastern
✔️Syria: Other Words for Home

20. Mixed Race or Multi-racial
📌 With the Fire on High (Elizabeth Acevedo)

21. Muslim:
✔️ The Other Half of Happiness
✔️ Power Forward
📌 The City of Brass
📌 The Bird King
📌 More to the Story

22. Non-binary or Transgender:
✔️Witch Boy

❌ 23. Oceanic (e.g., Papuan, Samoan)

❌ 24. Practitioner of a minor religion

❌ 25. Refugee, Migrant, or Asylum-Seeker

❌ 26. Survivor of Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence