Diversity Bingo 2017 TBR and Progress

I recently decided to start this challenge because I do want to ramp up my reading. I was just too lazy at the start of the year, to bugger down and do this. So I don’t plan on finishing the entire thing this year, I’ll just see how many I can cross off and maybe carry it over into next year. 

Sorry about the blurry quality. There are links to the original at the end of the post


This is the list of all the topics. The books listed below each challenge are either my options I’m considering reading or the ones I have actually read. The ones I have read will be bold and contain links to my reviews, and my options will be in cursive. 

Now, as for the books I haven’t read yet, I obviously can’t tell you if they are good or if I think they fit the challenge. If I read a book that I don’t think fits, I will remove it and try to find another one that fits better. But if you see something completely off on this list, please feel free to let me know :) 

Disclaimer: I figured out a lot of the challenges include for the book to be own voices after I found a lot of my suggestions, so they might not be own voices. 

Romance with a Trans Main Character

Non-Binary Main Character
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Science Fiction/Fantasy with Disabled Main Character

Jewish Main Character
Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff

Indian Main Character
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman

Displaced Main Character

Main Character with Under Represented Body

Neuro-diverse Main Character
Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Retelling with an LGBTQIA+ Main Character
Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Bisexual Main Character
Ash by Malinda Lo

Main Character with an Invisible Disability

Main Character with an Anaphylactic Allergy
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

Main Character of Color in Science Fiction/Fantasy
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Latinx Main Character
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova 

Free Choice
Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

Non Western (Real World) Setting
Absent by Betool Khedairi 

Own Voices

Main Character with Chronic Pain

West Asian Setting
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Arab Main Character
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea 

Main Character with a Wheelchair
The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen

Book by an Author of Color
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Biracial Main Character

Pansexual Main Character
Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate

Black Main Character
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Main Character on the Ace Spectrum

LGBTQIA+ Main Character of Color
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Visually Impaired Main Character

Book Set in Central America (embarrassingly I had to Google which countries make up Central America….but I guess this challenge is meant to teach me things, so if nothing else I have learnt that at least)
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley

Contemporary World Arranged Marriage
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Indigenous Main Character
Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Diverse Non-Fiction
Scattered Pearls by Sohila Zanjani and David Brewster

Person of Color on the Cover

d/Deaf Main Character
You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner

Immigrant/Rufugee Main Character
American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Hijabi Main Character
She Wore Red Trainers by Na’ima B. Robert


WOW was this hard!! Just goes tos how that we do need to be more attentive to what we are reading, since there are not a lot of diverse options out there!


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