#diversiFIVEbooks Round Up

It’s been one month since the start of the #diversiFIVEbooks challenge to bring a little more diversity to the online book community. You can read all about that here.

I wanted to give you all a round up of the books that were mentioned in the last month. This way you can add them to your physical or online to be read list, or just have them all in one place.

The list is organized by prompt. Which means if a book was listed in different categories it will show up twice. If a book was listed more than once in the same category, I will also note that as well. However once in the prompt they’re not organized at all.

If you’ve yet to participate, go join in the fun on your Instagram. And make sure you’re listening to The Stacks Podcast to hear how our guests answer their own #diversiFIVEboooks challenge.

Now on to the round up, be fair warned, its whole lot of books. Enjoy!

book you loved before you joined Instagram/Bookstagram

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

• Pygmallion by George Bernard Shaw

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

• Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer

• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

• The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2)

• Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

• The Inheritors by William Golding

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (3)

• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

• Light Years by James Salter

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• Storm Front by Jim Butcher

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

• Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

• A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (2)

• Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover

• Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

• How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• My Antonia by Willa Cather

• Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

• The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve

• Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

• The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed  by Jon Ronson

• Curiosity by Joan Thomas

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2)

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

• Kay Scarpetta Series by Patricia Cornwell

• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts

• Transatlantic by Colum McCann

• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

• Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• Cleopatra Hill Series by Christine Pope

• Let it Be Morning by Sayed Kashua

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

• The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht

A book you love by an author from a different ethnicity than you

• Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli

• The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

• White Tears by Hari Kunzru

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Tender: Stories by Sofia Samatar

• Race by Studs Terkel

• The Buddha in the Attica by Julie Otsuka

• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

• Red Azalea by Anchee Min

• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

• The Translator by Daoud Hari

• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• Wild Embers by Nikkita Gill

• Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2)

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling by Larissa Behrendt

• Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai

• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

• Hunger by Roxane Gay

• The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

• Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

• Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

• The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed

• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2)

• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett (2)

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2)

• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

• Valmiki’s Daughter by Shani Mootoo

• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

•  Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2)

• Native Son by Richard Wright

• Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

• When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henrique

• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

• The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim

• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

A book you’re excited to read by or about people of color

• The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist

• The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher Lebron

• Children of Blood and Bone by Toni Adeyemi (3)

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (2)

• You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson

• Out by Natsuo Kirino

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul

• American Street by Ibi Zoboi

• The Things I Would Tell You Sabrina Mahfouz

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Wild Swans by Jung Chang

• The Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe

• If You See Me Don’t Say Hi by Neel Patel

• Negroland by Margo Jefferson

• All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

• My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki

• The Underground Railroad by Colston Whitehead (3)

• July’s People by Nadine Gordimer

• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

• What is the What by Dave Eggers

• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (2)

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Zepety

• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (2)

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

• The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper

• Who Fears Death by Ndedi Okorafor

• Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart

• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo (2)

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

• Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)

• Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

• Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

• Unseen by Dana Canedy

• The Short Stories of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

• Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps

• Ponti by Sharlene Teo

• Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby

• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh

• N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

• Big Little Man by Alex Tizon

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

A book you love that you rarely see on Instagram/Bookstagram

• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• In Defense of Uncle Tom by Brando Simeo Starkey

• The Ark by Boyd Morrison

• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

• The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

• In The Dark Room by Susan Faludi

• Every Tounge Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston

•  Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

• The Collector by John Fowles

• Wild Swans by Jung Chang

• Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

• Cassandra by Christa Wolf

• Othello by William Shakespeare

• The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• The Forbidden Game by L.J. Smith

• Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

• 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

• Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntozake Shange

• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

• In The Woods by Tana French

• Unless by Carol Shields

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

• The Break by Katherena Vermette

• Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

• Mythology by Edith Hamilton

• Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

• Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

• Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

• Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre

• Hot Sur by Laura Restrepo

• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

• The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

• Shame by Salman Rushdie

• Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo

• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

• Ask the Dust by John Fante

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin

• The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink

• Perla by Carolina De Robertis

• New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

• Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

• Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

• Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve

• You Know When the Men are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

• Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin

• A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

• Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg

• This is Woman’s Work by Dominique Christina

• Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

• Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Sweetness in my Belly by Camilla Gibb

• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

• The Shore by Sara Taylor

A book in a genre you don’t normally read that you ended up loving (and the genre it comes from)

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Satire)

• New People by Danzy Senna (Fiction)

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Afrofuturism) (2)

• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (Poetry)

• The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer (Fantasy)

• Liar’s Club by Mary Karr (Memoir)

• March by John Lewis (Graphic Novel/Memoir)

• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salmon Rushdie (Magical Realism)

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Non-Fiction)

• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (Fiction)

• The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh (Young Adult/ Fantasy)

• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel (Science Fiction)

• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel/Memoir) (2)

• The Things I Would Tell You by Sabrina Mahfouz (Collected Essays)

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Classic Fiction)

• Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language by Nora Ellen Groce (Academic Non-Fiction)

• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast (Graphic Novel)

• Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Young Adult) (2)

• Valerian and Laureline by Pierre Christin (Comic)

• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Science Fiction)

• I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Memoir)

• Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire (Poetry)

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Pop Psychology)

• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (Science Fiction)

• A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Science Fiction)

• Life and Laughing by Michael McIntyre (Autobiography)

• 180 Seconds by Jessica Park (New Adult)

• The Trouble with Women by Jacky Fleming (Humor)

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (True Crime)

• SPQR by Mary Beard (Historical Non-Fiction)

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Non-Fiction)

• The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (Young Adult)

• Strapless by Deborah Davis (Non-Fiction)

• Border by Kapka Kassabova (Non-Fiction)

• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Short Stories)

• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (Non-Fiction)

• The Boys In the Boat (Sports Non-Fiction)

• Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling (Fantasy) (2)

• East of Eden by Jon Steinbeck (Classic Fiction)

• Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin (Fantasy)

• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Short Stories)

• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Graphic Novel)

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood  (Dystopian Fiction) (2)

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Science Fiction)

• Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shane Usher (Collected Essays)

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (Non-Fiction)

• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (Non-Fiction)

• The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Fantasy)

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Fiction)

• Night Film by Marisha Pessl (Thriller)

• The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (Magical Realism)

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Science Fiction)

• Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (Romantic Fiction)

• The Martian by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)

• The Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Classic Fiction)

• The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (Memoir)

• Ranger Games by Ben Blum (True Crime)

• The Boat by Nam Le (Short Stories)

• The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (Thriller)

• Fever Season by Barbara Hambly (Non-Fiction)

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Fantasy)

• Erasure by Percival Everett (Satire)

• I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearle Cleage (Fiction)

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Fiction)

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Young Adult)

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Young Adult)

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Fiction)

• The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears (Historical Fiction)

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Classic Fiction)

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

I hope this insanely rich and diverse list inspires you when you need it most. I know I’m looking forward to reading many of these books. If you do pick any of these up let me know what you think.

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