Lost in My Library

If you've been paying any attention to U.S. politics in the past few days, you know that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has won the presidency for the next four years. (Well, technically not yet, but we're not going to discuss that possibility seriously because it gets my hopes up way too much.) He's hateful, bigoted, unqualified, and dangerous. I've been kind of at a loss for what to do, but then I saw Jess @ Curiouser and Curiouser make a post about Books to Encourage Acceptance and Equality , and I absolutely loved it. Here's mine. (Note: I have more books for most of these categories - I'm just including my favorites or the ones that I think tackle relevant issues particularly well.) BOOKS WITH CHARACTERS OF COLOR THE WRATH & THE DAWN DUOLOGY by Renée Ahdieh - Persian-inspired fantasy; almost all major characters are of color (read my review here ) OUTRUN THE MOON by Stacey Lee - set around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, focusing on a ...

In each of my monthly wrap-ups, I count the number of diverse books I read. Normally, that's pretty easy to do. Occasionally, however, it isn't as simple as I think it should be. I have to think a lot about whether a book is diverse or not. Which brings me to my question: what makes a book diverse? ~ Warning: The next couple of paragraphs contain minor spoilers for the books mentioned. ~ Since I don't think I've been quite clear, let's look at a few examples from books I've read in the past few months. First, there's The Accident Season by Mo ïra Fowley-Doyle. In this book, we have Alice and Bea. Bea almost certainly likes girls. At one point, she kisses the female protagonist. Alice also probably likes girls. At one point, while discussing her romantic interests, she says something along the lines of there having been someone all along. It's implied that this person is Bea. One of them might even outright admit to liking the other at one point...