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✨ my November tbr + recs for The Diverse Baseline ✨
EEEEK how are we already so deep in October??? idk but here are the books I’m reading and reccing for the November prompts!!
📖About #TheDiverseBaseline
The Diverse Baseline is an optional reading challenge hosted on @the.storygraph, focused on uplifting racialized authors and stories all year long, hosted by Jade, Margherita, & me. It runs from January 1 to December 31 of each respective year, and everyone is welcome to join at any time throughout the year.
🔗Check out the carrd thediversebaseline.carrd.co: read the guidelines, download the graphics, and join the challenge with 800+ others on StoryGraph!
💌Subscribe to the newsletter: thediversebaseline.beehiiv.com
✨ prompt: fiction by an East Asian author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
my recs:
•The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
•Jade City by Fonda Lee
•Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho
•The Museum of Modern Love by Mariko Turk
•Red City by Marie Lu
✨ prompt: about intersectional feminism, abolition, colonization, or politics by a racialized author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
my recs:
•Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
•Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
•Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
•Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd
•The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
✨ prompt: nonfiction by a Southern African author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•Born in a Second Language by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie
my recs:
•Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
📖About #TheDiverseBaseline
The Diverse Baseline is an optional reading challenge hosted on @the.storygraph, focused on uplifting racialized authors and stories all year long, hosted by Jade, Margherita, & me. It runs from January 1 to December 31 of each respective year, and everyone is welcome to join at any time throughout the year.
🔗Check out the carrd thediversebaseline.carrd.co: read the guidelines, download the graphics, and join the challenge with 800+ others on StoryGraph!
💌Subscribe to the newsletter: thediversebaseline.beehiiv.com
EEEEK how are we already so deep in October??? idk but here are the books I’m reading and reccing for the November prompts!!
📖About #TheDiverseBaseline
The Diverse Baseline is an optional reading challenge hosted on @the.storygraph, focused on uplifting racialized authors and stories all year long, hosted by Jade, Margherita, & me. It runs from January 1 to December 31 of each respective year, and everyone is welcome to join at any time throughout the year.
🔗Check out the carrd thediversebaseline.carrd.co: read the guidelines, download the graphics, and join the challenge with 800+ others on StoryGraph!
💌Subscribe to the newsletter: thediversebaseline.beehiiv.com
✨ prompt: fiction by an East Asian author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
my recs:
•The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
•Jade City by Fonda Lee
•Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho
•The Museum of Modern Love by Mariko Turk
•Red City by Marie Lu
✨ prompt: about intersectional feminism, abolition, colonization, or politics by a racialized author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
my recs:
•Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
•Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
•Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
•Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd
•The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
✨ prompt: nonfiction by a Southern African author ✨
what I’m planning to read:
•Born in a Second Language by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie
my recs:
•Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
📖About #TheDiverseBaseline
The Diverse Baseline is an optional reading challenge hosted on @the.storygraph, focused on uplifting racialized authors and stories all year long, hosted by Jade, Margherita, & me. It runs from January 1 to December 31 of each respective year, and everyone is welcome to join at any time throughout the year.
🔗Check out the carrd thediversebaseline.carrd.co: read the guidelines, download the graphics, and join the challenge with 800+ others on StoryGraph!
💌Subscribe to the newsletter: thediversebaseline.beehiiv.com
Comments (29)
3 days agofolkloreandfiction
You exist too much is so good!! So many great recs 😍 November will be a great month 🙂↕️
4 days agoknotsnpurls
The sword of kaigen is so good! I'm reading disorientation, things fall apart, and born a crime! (Or at least that's the plan)
4 days agohyperfixatedreader
@brewdy_reader the first slide was so easy to think of recs for!! i guess we know which books i reach for most lol
4 days agobrewdy_reader
Great recs! I’ve read most of the first slide but less of the others. Loved born a crime
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