Mimp Mag Recommends Diverse Reads
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Books that empower us.
Recently the #FEMPOWERTHON read-a-thon happened (next #FEMPOWERATHON event in October 8th-14th 2017), which was an event, created by Taylor Stanley and Nicole Craswell, with challenges to read as many feminist and diverse books as you could in a week. When I decided to join I realized I didn’t have that many options to read, I had to ask my friends for recommendations which were books that I had already read, I had to do extensive research on booktube (watching many #FEMPOWERATHON to be read lists to get ideas) the mimp mag team came up with some recommendations for each category:
Books about a woman in a position of power
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Books about a woman of color
The Inventions of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Something in between by Melissa de la Cruz
Books featuring an LGBTQ+ character
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac
Books with a strong sister relationship
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Books featuring a female character with a mental illness
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
OWN voices novels
Under Rose Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall
History It’s All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Books not set in the western world
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
Graphic novel by a female author
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Wires and Nerves by Marissa Meyer
Plume by K. Lynn Smith