Diverse books reviewed in 2017: 12/11/17

In January I talked about my desire to diversify my reading. The goal was to reach the point where half of all the books I read and review (or 150 books read, 180 reviewed) would be inclusive. My definition of inclusive or diverse continues to evolve, with more emphasis being on the authors. In this post I'm trying to do two things: look at what I've read and reviewed, and to be accountable for where I could have done a better job.

As this month (and thus this year) isn't ever, I will update the December list as the month progresses.

December:

• Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (2017)
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green (2017)
• Walking with Miss Millie by Tamara Bundy (2017)
• Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar (2017)
• One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (2017)

November:

• How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch (2015)
• Smarty Marty Steps Up Her Game by Amy Gutierrez (2017)
• Armstrong and Charlie by Steven B. Frank
• The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
• Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds (2017)
• Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire (2017)
• The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez (2017)
• Outside In by Jennifer Bradbury (2017)
• Amina's Voice by Hena Khan (2017)

October:

• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010)
• Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan (2017)
• The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang (2016)
• Demon, Volume 3 by Jason Shiga (2017)
• Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse (2015)
• Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali (2017)
• The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews (2010)
• The Fog by Kyo Maclear (2017)

September:

• The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson (2017)
• Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman (2017)
• Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West by Marlene Blessing (2002)
• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett (2014)
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (2017)
• This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (2017)

August:

• Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin (1984)
• Roughneck by Jeff Lemire (2017)
• Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll (2015)

July:

• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett (2009)
• Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (2014)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
• Jem and the Holograms, Volume 3: Dark Jem by Kelly Thompson (2017)
• I Say Tomato by Katie Wall (2010)
• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (2017)
• Over the Ocean by Taro Gomi (1979)

June:

• A Day's Work by Eve Bunting (1994)
• VanDerZee by Deborah Willis-Braithwaite
• Storm by Amanda Sun
• Who Is AC? by Hope Larson and illustrated by Tintin Pantoja
• The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz (2016)

May:

• A List of Cages by Robin Roe (2017)
• Boy Dumplings by Ying Chang Compestine
• The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood
• This Land I Love: Waterloo County by Carl Hiebert
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Draw! by Raúl Colón

April:

• The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
• Kitchener Waterloo: A Guidebook from Memory by Robert Motum
• Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Raúl Colón
• Smoky Night by Eve Bunting

March:

• Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved by Patricia Hruby Powell
• The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
• Demon Volume 2 by Jason Shiga
• The Specific Ocean by Kyo Maclear
• No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
• Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• A Castle On Viola Street by Dyanne Disalvo
• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• On Mother's Lap by Ann Herbert Scott and illustrated by Glo Coalson
• Just Us Women by Jeannette Franklin Caines
• Voltron: Legendary Defender, Volume 1 by Tim Hedrick
• The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

February:

• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Extraordinary by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
• The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
• Captain Coconut and the Case of the Missing Bananas with illustrations by Priya Sundram
• March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
• Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South, Part Two by Gene Luen Yang
• Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• New Cat by Yangsook Choi
• Dreadnought by April Daniels
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman

January:

• Pantomime by Laura Lam
• Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres
• Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear
• Hello, My Name is Octicorn by Kevin Diller
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez
• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III with illustrations by Jim Yellowhawk
• Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia by Won-Ldy Paye
• The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce

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