Monday, 2 January 2017

52 Books Around the Year

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This list is a work in progress and subject to change.
last updated: may 2017

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)
✓Finders Keepers- Stephen King

 2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
✓The Girl Who Fell From the Sky- Heidi W Durrow

 3. A book you meant to read in 2016 
✓Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" 
✓Final Girls- Riley Sager

 5. A historical fiction 
✓City of Thieves- David Benioff

 6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 
✓The Gunslinger- Stephen King

 7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title 
✓Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo

 8. A book written by a person of color 
✓The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas

 9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
✓The Gallery of Unfinished Girls- Lauren Karcz

 10. A dual-timeline novel 
✓Violent Ends (collaboration)

 11. A category from another challenge

 12. A book based on a myth
The

 13. A book recommended by a favorite authors
✓ I See You- Clare Mackintosh (rec: Mary Kubica)

 14. A book with a strong female character
✓ Dare Mighty Things- Heather Kaczynski

 15. A book written or set in Scandinavia
TBA

 16. A mystery
✓The Perfect Stranger- Megan Miranda

 17. A book with illustrations
✓ Penguin Cover to Cover

 18. A really long book (600+ pages)
✓The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt

 19. A New York Times best-seller 

 20. A book owned for a while & haven't gotten around to
The 

 21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
✓ Always & Forever, Lara Jean- Jenny Han

 22. A book by an author you haven't read before
✓ Gem & Dixie- Sara Zarr

 23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
✓Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen

 24. A book written by at least two authors
✓ Because You Love to Hate Me (Anthology)

 25. A book about a famous historical figure 
✓Queer, There and Everywhere- Sara Prager

 26. An adventure book
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
✓At the Edge of the Universe- Shaun David Hutchinson

 28. A non-fiction
✓Hidden Figures- Margot Lee Shetterly

 29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses
✓Beautiful Broken Girls- Kim Savage

 30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
H

 31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
✓The Breakdown - BA Paris

 32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
✓A House at the Bottom of a Lake- Josh Malerman

 33. A magical realism novel
✓ Wild Beauty- Anna-Marie McLemore

 34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
 ✓Dear Ijeawele- Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

 35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
✓Of Fire and Stars- Audrey Coulthurst

 36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
The 

 37. A book you choose randomly
✓The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros

 38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
✓A Million Junes- Emily Henry

 39. An epistolary fiction 
40. A book published in 2017
✓Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined- Danielle Younge-Ullman

 41. A book with an unreliable narrator
✓Dangerous Girls- Abigail Haas

 42. A best book of the 21st century 
Me

 43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
✓Whichwood- Tahereh Mafi

 44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
✓More Than This- Patrick Ness

 45. A book with a one-word title
✓ Literally- Lucy Keating

 46. A time travel novel
✓ The Ship Beyond Time- Heidi Heilig

 47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)  (# in title)
✓ First We Were IV- Alexandra Sirowy

 48. A banned book 

 49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
✓The Upside of Unrequited- Becky Albertalli

 50. A Penguin Modern Classic
✓The Haunting- Shirley Jackson

 51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
✓A Poem for Every Night of the Year

 52. A book set in a fictional location
✓Down Among the Sticks and Bones- Seanan McGuire
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Diversity Bingo 2017

This list is a work in progress. and this post is kind of a place holder. I'm putting some time into this list this coming week, so check back later!


Romance with a Trans Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Non-Binary Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Science Fiction/Fantasy with Disabled Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo

Jewish Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• Little & Lion- Brandy Colbert (2017)

Indian Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Displaced Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓ • Welcome Home anthology

Main Character with Under Represented Body
(list of recommendations)
✓• The Upside of Unrequited- Becky Albertalli (2017)

Neuro-diverse Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Retelling with an LGBTQIA+ Main Character
(list of recommendations)
• Girls Made of Snow and Glass- Melissa Bashardoust (2017)

Bisexual Main Character
(list of recommendations: one | two)
✓• The Gallery of Unfinished Girls- Lauren Karcz (2017)

Main Character with an Invisible Disability
(list of recommendations)
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Main Character with an Anaphylactic Allergy
(list of recommendations)
• Under Rose-Tainted Skies- Louise Gornall

Main Character of Color in Science Fiction/Fantasy
(list of recommendations: one | two | three)
✓• The Library of Fates- Aditi Khorana (2017)

Latinx Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros

Free Choice
(list of recommendations)
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Non Western (Real World) Setting
(list of recommendations)
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Own Voices
(list of recommendations)
✓• Flying Lessons Anthology

Main Character with Chronic Pain
(list of recommendations)
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West Asian Setting
(list of recommendations)
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Arab Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• Saints and Misfits - SK Ali

Main Character with a Wheelchair
(list of recommendations)
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Book by an Author of Color
(list of recommendations: one | two | three)
✓• Tiny Pretty Things - Sona Charaipotra + Dhonielle Clayton


Biracial Main Character
(list of recommendations: one | two)
✓• The Ship Beyond Time - Heidi Heilig (2017)

Pansexual Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Black Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (2017)

Main Character on the Ace Spectrum
(list of recommendations)
✓• Radio Silence- Alice Oseman (2017)

LGBTQIA+ Main Character of Color
(list of recommendations)
✓• Wild Beauty- Anna Marie-McLemore (2017)

Visually Impaired Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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Book Set in Central America
(list of recommendations)
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Contemporary World Arranged Marriage
(list of recommendations)
✓• When Dimple Met Rishi- Sandhya Menon (2017)

Indigenous Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• The Marrow Thieves- Cheri Dimaline

Diverse Non-Fiction
(list of recommendations)
✓• Queer, There and Everywhere- Sarah Prager (2017)

Person of Color on the Cover
(list of recommendations: one | two)
✓• Hidden Figures- Margot Lee Shetterly

d/Deaf Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• El Deafo- Cece Bell

Immigrant/Rufugee Main Character
(list of recommendations)
✓• American Street- Ibi Zoboi (2017)

Hijabi Main Character
(list of recommendations)
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I wanted to provide some of my own recommendations for each category- but belonging to none of these groups myself, that felt unnecessary when I could boost others' voices- so I linked to blog posts and articles from people I trust, or that I found helpful when curating my own list. I apologize if there are books on these lists that you don't feel are respectful representation, or don't list 100% #ownvoices recommendations. I am happy to listen and change my reading choices, as well as the links I have chosen.

There are also a lot of 2017 releases on my list, as a majority of my TBR this year (as seen here) are yet-to-be-published novels. This means a lot of this list has had very few, or in some cases, zero readers. Because of this, please keep in mind that there is no guarantee that these books are respectful representation of the categories I have placed them in, or that they are respectful representation of any other marginalized group(s) that they may contain. Again, I am happy to listen and change my list accordingly.

♥ Lala



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Tuesday, 27 December 2016

December Bookmark'd: Book and Adaptation News

Book News

• Wesley Snipes’ Debut Novel Lands At HarperCollins Imprint For 2017

• Colleen Hoover's new book has title- Without Merit

• JK Rowling working on 2 new books

• Amber Tamblyn working on book about rape culture

• Stephanie Perkins new horror novel in the works

• RL Stine to come out with Marvel comics


Cover Reveals
the scattering | all the dirty parts | the edge of the abyss | an unkindness of magicians | follow me back | theft by finding
my life as eva: the struggle is real | into the water | this is just my face, try not to stare | carry on | a world without you | bone gap


Movie & TV Adaptation News

• ‘Millennium Trilogy’ Director Daniel Alfredson Set To Adapt Swedish ‘Intrigo’ Book Series


New Trailers

The Circle
Lost City of Z
Game of Thrones
Coin Heist
Rock Dog


♥ Lala

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Thursday, 1 December 2016

DIVERSITYDECBINGO

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