
Happy Friday my friends!!! Well it’s halfway through January and I finally got organized enough to come up with my Better reading and Diversity Challenge prompts. Because I like to fly by the seat of my pants I am not sure how I will go about tackling these prompts and probably will just picks the books as I go or read them. My main goal is to find books that fit the prompts I have decided on and I might not know that till after I read the book. I also would like to look at the books I have read in 2020 and find some that fit the prompts as well. So kind of look at 2020 and then challenge myself to read more in 2021. I hope this will help me get to those books I have that I picked up in 2020 in my quest to challenge myself to read better.
This is a combined challenge for reading better and reading more diverse books. My goal is to read at least one for each prompts however I am setting my goal to read half my reading challenge amount of 80 books from the list below. So here are my prompts.
- Books that explore racial social justice by a black author
- Books that explore social justice for women
- Books that explore social justice for black women that challenge white feminism
- Books with a theme for a cause or movement I believe in
- Books that implores an immigration experience
- Books by an author color that explores their challenges and social justice
- Books that explore sexual identity
- Books that explore poverty and wealth or classism
- Books with a good representation of mental health
- Books that explore loss/grief
- Books with a character with a physical disability
- Books that explore women’s health
- Books with an older character or explores generation gap or aging
- Books with unseen characters that explores loneliness
- Books with a strong female character using her voice
- Books that challenges gender expectations and roles
- Books that challenges toxic male masculinity
- Books that avoid harmful tropes while exploring multiply themes
- Books that explore rape culture
- Book by an author of color set in a country I would like to visits
- Books that challenge or explore women gender oppression
- Books that help the environment or explores the concerns for our environment
- Books that explore a part of history
- Books that teaches something about the past that is still relevant today
- Memoir on a subject I feel strong about
- Books of essays on a subject I would like to challenge my thoughts on and see society do better with
That’s it for now! I might add more as the year progresses. I hope to keep track of my journey through my challenge here on our blog. Have any suggests? Read any that you think might fit my prompts? Want to cheer me on? Want to join in? Drop me a comment below!!