2011 POC Challenge Wrap-up Posts!

Although the goal of this challenge is to get people reading more books by and about persons of color for life, it's nice to be able to post a summary of your reading to celebrate that you met your challenge goal (or even if you didn't meet your goal, just to acknowledge that you tried)!

Your wrap-up post serves as a way to link your completed list of books read for this reading challenge. When you have completed your reading list, create a blog post and link that post below. Here are some suggestions of things you could include in your wrap-up post (you don't have to answer these, they are just suggestions):

• What were your favorite (and least favorite) books read for the challenge?
• Favorite author(s) from the challenge?
• Has the challenge helped to change your reading habits? Will you continue to read books by and about persons of color? 
• Are there genres, authors, or specific books that you still want to read or that you plan to read in the future?
• What did you learn through this challenge? 

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December Review Link-up!

It's December! How are you doing on the challenge? Did you meet your goal already or are you racing to the finish line? I'll be posting an end-of-the-challenge link-up shortly so you can link up your wrap-up posts.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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September, October Winners

Should I just stop apologizing? I can't... I am very very sorry that it has taken me so long to post winners. Also if you won a book and haven't received an email from me, please go ahead and email me yourself! I check my email everyday so I will follow up. It's just increasingly difficult for me to remember to email the winners first.

September: BURIED IN PRINT!

Akoss @ Fantasy Pen!

October: April from Good Books & Good Wine!

Shannon from Reading Has a Purpose!

Congratulations winners! If you do not hear from me within 48 hours feel free to email me. I look forward to the holidays when I can take the time to not only read but COMMENT on many of the great reviews I've seen and read.

November Review Link-Up!

Is it really November ALREADY??? Sorry I'm late getting this up again.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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October Review Link-up!

Source

Happy October! Please leave a comment you have any suggestions for spooky POC reads this month!

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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August 2011 Winners!

*Ducks head in shame* I can't even find the words to apologize for how long this took me to post :0 But more importantly, here are ze winners!

A.J! from Collections, the random review was Invisible Touch by Kelly Parra. I've read the book too and I agree 100% with her thoughts about the ending and the blog entries

Sidne! from Reading Rendezvous Reviews and the highlighted review from her blog is Leading Lady of Rap by Torri L. Holmes, I like the tagline of the novel "Not a video vixen" story

Winners email me with your addresses and which book you've chosen from the prize list

Keep on keeping on!

September Review Link-up!

Keep linking up your POC Challenge reviews! You guys are doing great! Just a few months left until the end of the year!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Shelf Awareness for Readers: Books About China

Today's Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter included a Further Reading section that focuses on books about China. Click here to see the suggestions!

And if you haven't signed up for Shelf Awareness for Readers (which is a free e-mail newsletter that arrives Tuesdays and Fridays), click here to do so!

July Winners

Brandy from Books, Books 'N More Books who reviewed the second book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (which is one of my personal favorite series'), Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

and

Tea from Book Page! Tea reviewed If Sons Then Heirs by Lorene Cary

Congratulations winners (email me if you don't hear from me in 48 hours) and I'm enjoying reading through as many reviews as I can :) And past winners be sure you let me know when your books have arrived

August Review Link-Up

Whooo's Reading a Good Book? by Enokson

School will be starting back up soon; we hope you're able to squeeze in some more POC books before the end of summer!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Dystopia and Diversity?!

Lee and Low, a fabulous diversity rich publishing house, has put the first four chapters of their dystopian Tankborn online for your reading pleasure! Check it out and let us know what you think!

(edited to add: Click here to learn more about Tankborn at Lee and Low's website.)

Sync into summer!

The Audio Book Community is having two free downloads a week for kids audio. This week they are featuring a free download that all of you PoC challgengers may be interested in! It counts towards the challenge. If you download and listen let us know!

WHERE THE STREETS HAD A NAME by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Read by Kellie Jones
Published by Bolinda Audio

Thanks to April at Good Books and Good Wine for letting us know!

July Review Link-Up

"Tome Reader" by Ozyman

The library is a nice cool place to be in the summer! What's on your summer reading list? Here's the review link-up for the month of July. Happy reading!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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May Winners & A Giveaway for Diversifying Your Reading

Extra late as always, I just ask for your continued patience. I'm going to try and be on top of things during the summer to regain my good habits :)

Our May winners....


Sylvia from What If Books Etc reviewed White Cat by Holly Black

Chelle from The Prairie Library who reviewed The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, related by Herself, edited by Moira Ferguson

Congratulations winners, I will email you shortly (promise :D) Happy summer reading everyone!!

Remember the Diversity in YA tours? Hopefully you were able to attend. The founders of Diversity in YA, Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon have created a challenge for the summer to encourage people to read more diverse YA/MG. You can read as many books as you want, all you have to do as a book blogger or reader is list the books you read and write a 500-word essay (at least) on your experience. But wait there's more! If you spread the word on the challenge you will be entered into the ARC giveaway. The Spread the Word giveaway ends July 31, the actual challenge ends September 1. Go here for more info

Libraries: We invite librarians to incorporate diverse middle grade and young adult novels into your summer reading programs, whether it’s as a book display, a book club event, or a book list you’ve created to share with your patrons. Please take photos or shoot video of your display or event and share them with us!

Readers and Book Bloggers: We invite readers and book bloggers to read diverse MG and YA books throughout the summer (you choose the books!) and write an essay (at least 500 words) about your experience. You can post it on your website, Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr, or on Facebook; we only ask that your post be publicly readable

June Review Link-Up!

Happy June! School is out (or will be very soon), the weather is hot, and I'm guessing many of us plan to spend some time cooling off with a good book this month. I know I've really been looking forward to diving into the pile of books I've been saving up for the summer. I hope you've got some great POC books planned for your summer reading too!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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April Winners (Lateness is the Norm)

Yeah so this winners post is also ridiculously late. But I'm trying to be proactive and mail everyone's prizes out by June 4th at the very latest (because yes I still haven't mailed the March winners books. I am really sorry!).

The winners.....

Charlotte! of Charlotte's Library fame, her chosen (by Random.org) review was Freedom Stone

Myra! well known for her being part of the group that runs the blog Gathering Books, the review chosen was for three animal themed picture-books, translated from French and written by Suzy Lee

Congratulations winners and everyone please keep those reviews coming! Winners you can mail me right away or wait until I email you (in about a day or so).

Happy reading :D

May Review Link-Up!

Sorry for being a few days late on this one everyone! I've been swamped at work and at home lately.

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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The Diversity in YA Tour is coming to a city near you!

You can go to the tour page and see if the tour is coming near you. You guys from the PoC Challenge should definitely check it out and I will see you at the San Francisco date if you are local!

March Winners! (Super Ridiculously Late)

On a Pale Star (Jessica) For her review of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemison The Book Memoirs (Elle) ! For her review of What Can't Wait by Ashley Hope Perez

I am so sorry that this got posted ridiculously late. Junior year, second semester is a crazy year. Anyway I also wanted to check in and make sure everyone has received their prizes so far. If not please email me and I will do my best to track it down.

Winners will be emailed within 48 hours.

New multi cultural picture book!

The Greedy Sparrow by Lucine Kasbarian

From Kirkus: “In Zaikina's bold, folk-style illustrations, both characters and landscape are heavily outlined in black, and the characters' dialogue is in speech balloons. Pictures are lightened with bright, textured colors (they were made with oil paint and layers of wax) and have an appealing, vigorous heft. Armenian folk attire and references to places in Armenia authenticate the tale. It's a rhythmic read-aloud beginning readers can share.”—Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2011

From the Press Release:

An Armenian folktale retold by Armenian-American
writer Lucine Kasbarian and illustrated by Moscow-based artist Maria Zaikina debuts with
Marshall Cavendish Children’s Publishers in April 2011.
The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale is from the ancient Armenian oral tradition and
culture, which was nearly obliterated during the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians
and Greeks in 1915. The author learned the tale from her father, editor and columnist C.K.
Garabed, who would recite it to her at bedtime. He had learned it from his own
grandmother, a celebrated storyteller from the Old Country. The tale was first put to paper
by Armenian poet Hovhannes Toumanian at the turn of the 20th
century.
The Greedy Sparrow is the first time this tale has been presented in the English language as a
children’s picture book. The story begins in old Armenia with a sparrow who catches a thorn
in his foot. As he asks for help, he sets off an intriguing cycle of action that transports him
through the Armenian countryside, encountering people engaged in traditional folkways.
The Greedy Sparrow ends with a surprising twist and conveys moral messages about greed,
selfishness and using one’s judgment. To address the ethical and human components of the
tale, a discussion and activity guide is available on the author’s website,
LucineKasbarian.com.


This sounds like a fabulous book and I love folklore! This book counts for the challenge. Let me know if you read it!

April Review Link-Up!

photo credit: vanberto (Flickr)

Happy Spring! It's the start of another month, so here is the link-up page for April 2011.

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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New UK cover for Demon's Lexicon Series

I love this cover so much! I wish I was in the UK!

Here is the US version.

Feb. winners!

Keyona from Only Sexy Books Allowed! Her chosen (by Random.org) review was of Hidden by Tomas Mourian (and wow that book sounds majorly intense)

and....

Emily from The Book Eater! Her chosen review was Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (I read Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and I wasn't a big fan but I think that's because I didn't savor the book as I should have. Regardless, Jamaica Kincaid does have in the truest sense of the word 'lyrical' prose).

Congratulations winners (I'll be emailing you shortly) and take heart if you didn't win, we've got 10 more months to go =D

March Review Link-Up!

It's the start of another month, so here's the link-up page for March 2011. Have you been enjoying your POC reads so far?

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Recent Links of Interest

I have come across some fabulous links in my Google Reader recently and I wanted to share them with you.

First, our very own Ari at Reading In Color has organized C.O.L.O.R. (Coalition Of Librarians and Online Readers), a program to donate books to libraries.

The end goal being to donate at least 25 books in two months to a library that could use a little extra TLC. I have four libraries as of right now and depending on the success of the project, more librarians and libraries will be added. . . . The ideal scenario is to send books about Asians/Black people/Latinos and Native Americans to the library, but to have the majority of the books match the ethnicity of the students.

So click here to check out her post and to help out this special project.

Author Zetta Elliott put together a fantastic list of 32 Speculative Fiction titles by US-based authors of African descent. Click here to take a look at the list, which is located at her blog, Fledgling.

Author Neesha Meminger guest posted at The YA YA YAs about the need for fun books that feature people of color, not just books featuring "marginalized people suffering nobly or weathering hardship, to the exclusion of other types of stories." Click here to read the post, called "An Equal Place at the Table."

And Kirkus Reviews featured an article by Amy Pattee of YA or STFU on February 7 called "It's time for more YA for people of color," and provided a list of YA books featuring teens of color. Click here to read the article, and click here to see the book list.

Did you recently come across any interesting links you'd like to share? Leave them in the comments! :)

January 2011 Winners

This year we have so many fabulous books to offer, we (Pam, Katy and I) decided to to have two winners, every month (which makes your chances for winning a prize pretty good). I am seriously jealous over all the books you guys get to chose from (but I don't envy your having to choose, I could never pick just one ;)

The winners are....

Dusky Literati for her review of Zora and Me
Shan from Curled Up With a Good Book and a Cup of Tea for After Tehran: A Life Remained
Congratulations winners! I will try my hardest to email you within 48 hours, but feel free to email me first.

First Annual African American Lit Festival

Click here to read about the first annual African American Lit Festival in NYC!

African American Read-in!

As part of this year's Black History Month celebration, Ari at Reading in Color, Doret at The Happy Nappy Bookseller, and Edi at Crazy Quilts are hosting an African American Read-In!

The voting already took place, and the book that will be read and discussed is Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves.

All readers are welcome so if you're interested in participating the discussion will be held on Sunday February 20th at 7 PM CT. Ari doesn't expect it to run longer than 2 hours.

Right now they're trying to decide how to facilitate the discussion, so if you've decided to participate, make sure you go over to Ari's blog and vote (click here to go there).


Are you planning to participate in the Read-in?

February 2011 Review Link-up!

It's the start of another month, so here's the link-up page for February 2011. I hope your reads so far have been fabulous!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Across the Universe

Apparently traveling 300 years in a ship still does nothing for racial tolerance. As The Interrobangs Blog has pointed out. Elder has been photo-shopped very badly in an attempt to make him seem less ethnic. You can see pictures and everything by clicking on over.

THE Winners!

We have four winners, each one gets a $25 book giftcard. I'm jealous :D

Christina

Muse

The Dirigible Plum

Katy

Again, my heartfelt thanks to all those who participated and wrote wrap-up posts. I had a great time reading them all (and even got a little choked up, no lie) and I highly encourage everyone to read them. It's amazing to read about people who went from only reading 1-3 books about poc to 15!

Happy, happy Martin Luther King Day!

My favorite quote of his that ends up applying quite well to this challenge: "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Winners you can email me or wait till I contact you (which should be in about 36 hours). Congratulations!!

2011 Prize List

Everybody loves prizes and just like last year, this year we have some fabulous ones. I'm still working on the grand prize.

If you're new to the challenge, how it works is that each month I draw a winner using Random.org and then that winner picks one book from the prize list. To be in the drawing you must remember to link up your reviews. If the book you pick is not able to be shipped to you because of it being international, we will try and work something else out.

*Note: Some of these books star main characters who are not poc BUT there is a secondary character of color who plays a huge role in the book.

Latte Rebellion swag

A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee (UK edition, open to U.S. & Canda only)

The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney (signed!)

Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves

Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves

The Trouble With Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante (signed!)

Silver Phoenix (paperback) by Cindy Pon

Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon


The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Stevenson (thank you so much Debbie!)

Half World by Hiromi Goto (signed!)

The Water of Possibility by Hiromi Goto (signed!)

Jazz in Love by Neesha Meminger (ebook)

Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice

Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice

Substitue Me by Lori Tharps (Thank you Melissa!)

Lightborn: Seeing is Believing by Tricia Sullivan

The Dark Goddess by Sarwat Chadda (signed!)

Teenie by Christopher Grant

Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott (signed!)

Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus by Debi Goodwin (thank you so much for the donation Brandy!)

The following were donated by Tricia, thank you so much!

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1) by N. K. Jemisin

The Broken Kingdoms (The Inheritange Trilogy #2) by N. K. Jemisin

We Were Here by Matt De La Pena

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Thank you so much everyone for your generosity! Your support means more than I could ever say.

Diversity in YA Fiction Tour has some news for you!

Head on over to the Diversity in YA blog and find out who they are taking on tour with them! Dates for this tour will be coming soon and I for one being local to Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo hope to get to a few of the signings. I just looked at their list and seriously guys I am fangirling over here. If you care about diversity then please visit this blog and support the authors on tour. Here is some info from the Diversity website:

Diversity in YA Fiction is a website and book tour founded by two young adult authors, Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon, to celebrate diverse stories in YA.

DIYA is a positive, friendly gathering of readers and writers who want to see diversity in their fiction. We come from all walks of life and backgrounds, and we hope that you do, too. We encourage an attitude of openness and curiosity, and we welcome questions and discussion. Most of all, we can’t wait to have fun sharing some great books with you!

Cindy Pon is the author of Silver Phoenix (Greenwillow, 2009), which was named one of the Top Ten Fantasy and Science Fiction Books for Youth by the American Library Association’s Booklist, and one of 2009′s best Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror by VOYA. The sequel to Silver Phoenix, titled Fury of the Phoenix, will be published in April 2011. Visit her website at CindyPon.com.

Malinda Lo is the author of Ash (Little, Brown, 2009), which was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, and named one of the Kirkus Best Young Adult Novels of 2009. A companion novel to Ash, titled Huntress, will be published in April 2011. Visit her website at MalindaLo.com.

Elle Whitewashes beautiful Bollywood Actress

It's not just book publishers who sometimes get it wrong. Elle recently white washed the beautiful Bollywood Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who is best known for being Miss World.

What can we do? Visit Change.Org and signe the petition. Thanks to April at Good Books and Wine for tweeting this.

Here is some info from Change:

It looks like Elle had quite the white Christmas.

Bollywood actor and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is featured on the cover of Elle Magazine looking far paler than she is in real life. Most fans are up in arms and an appalled Ms. Bachchan is considering a lawsuit against the magazine.

Consumers have long been inundated with ads that use prominent Bollywood actors to promote skin-lightening products. In a country that produces gorgeous women of color, it is sad that Ms. Rai-Bachchan, who is relatively light-skinned, is one of the very few with some cross-over appeal. To see magazines like Elle further enforce the color hierarchy of crossover appeal by making Aishwarya appear lighter-skinned is a slap in the face.

This is the second racial debacle surrounding Elle. The American version was criticized for its October 2010 issue, which featured actress Gabourey Sidibeon on one of its four celebrity covers with noticeably lighter skin than her natural complexion.

Lets tell Elle Magazine to make a commitment to moving away from using white as a standard for beauty, and demand a public statement and apology.

Diversify Your Reading blog

Just a quick blog note to bring some attention to a great site called Diversify Your Reading. It is a place to find "blog reviews of books by authors underrepresented in English-language publishing today." The site has a list of categories on the right side that includes "Indigenous Authors," "African Authors," "Asian Authors," and more.

I bring up this site because it is not only a great resource for participants in this challenge who are looking for some book recommendations, but also because it is another place where you can link up your reviews of books by authors of color that you have read for this challenge.

Happy reading!

(And another quick reminder: if you participated in the 2010 POC Reading Challenge, you must write up a wrap-up post and link it up here by January 14th 11:59 PM CT to be eligible for the grand prize gift cards!).

Spotlight: Illegal by Bettina Restrepo

A promise.
Quinceañera.
A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .

Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in poverty—waiting for her father's return and a better day. When the letters and money stop coming, Nora decides that she and her mother must look for him in Texas. After a frightening experience crossing the border, the two are all alone in a strange place. Now, Nora must find the strength to survive while aching for small comforts: friends, a new school, and her precious quinceañera.

Bettina Restrepo's gripping, deeply hopeful debut novel captures the challenges of one girl's unique yet universal immigrant experience.



I am so excited for this book. As far as my limited knowledge goes there are no books for young people that detail or explain the crossing over from Mexico into America. This is a subject that I am dying to know more about and I think this book will be fabulous. It comes out in March and I hope to see it on the review link ups in March and April.


Bettina Restrepo received a BS from the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of a picture book, Moose and Magpie. She worked as an internal auditor in the Hispanic supermarket Fiesta Mart, which is portrayed in this book. There she examined firsthand the challenges in the nuances of life for illegal immigrants. Bettina lives with her family in Frisco, Texas, and is the daughter of Colombian and German immigrants.
Author Website

December winner + Grand Prize Giftcards

Our December and last (but surely not least) winner for December is

Tarie!!

The review chosen was Tarie's Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerjii. I detest pigeons but Tarie claims the author makes birds fascinating....

Tarie, feel free to email me or you can wait for me to email you in about 48 hours. Everyone else, thank you so much for entering the poc reading challenge! It means a lot to me personally that so many people supported this challenge and I'm honored (and ecstatic) to be a part of it.

If you didn't win in 2010, cheer up not only could you win in 2011 by signing up to do the challenge again but you could 1 of our 4 grand prizes! Thanks to the amazing Carol at RiF (Reading is Fundamental) we have four giftcards. 2 for Borders and 2 for Barnes & Noble, each one is worth $25. I don't know how we are going to top that in 2011, but ah well :)

To win all you have to do is WRITE YOUR WRAP UP POST. And don't forget to link it up here. I really want to see if people met their goal, exceeded it or maybe need to do a bit better. So help me out. I'm giving everyone about a week (because I'm nice and I have finals next week haha) so please, please have your post written and linked up by January 14th 11:59 PM CT.

Oh and I love getting emails letting me know you received your prize (if you haven't emailed me already). Just sayin ;)

January 2011 Review Link-Ups!

Can you believe it's already 2011?? Where has the time gone?

This is the POC Reading Challenge Review Link-Up for January. Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

Happy New Year, and happy reading!

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1. Healing Rage by Ruth King 2. Little Bee (Helen's Book Blog) 3. Cupid by Julius Lester (The Englishist) 4. Mama Stalks the Past by Nora DeLoach 5. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by alice Walker 6. Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi 7. Unsympathetic Magic (What If Books Etc) 8. The Latte Rebellion - Sarah Jamila Stevenson 9. How To Read The Air - Dinaw Mengistu (Shan) 10. Murder on the Down Low (Helen's Book Blog) 11. Muslim Women Reformers (Helen's Book Blog) 12. Shooting Kabul (Helen's Book Blog) 13. Girl in Translation 14. Take the Risk by Ben Carson 15. The Latte Rebellion 16. Lola: A Ghost Story by J. Torres 17. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (booksandwine) 18. Long Walk to Water (Linda Sue Park) 19. Palestine by Joe Sacco 20. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Tia's Book Musings) 21. Bitter Melon by Cara Chow 22. Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet (Maggie's Bookshelf) 23. John Henry by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney 24. Rhythms of Grace by Marilynn Griffith (Shan) 25. The Princess of Las Pulgas (lucy was robbed) 26. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler 27. Mardel read Moxyland 28. Zoo City (Mardel) by Lauren Beukes 29. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Dusky Literati) 30. Zora and Me by Bond and Simon (Dusky Literati) 31. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (Tia's Book Musings) 32. Lost Hero by Rick Riordan 33. Yong Chen's A Gift by GatheringBooks 34. Yasunari Kawabata The Old Capital 35. The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips (muse) 36. Ash by Malinda Lo (What If Books Etc) 37. After Tehran by Marina Nemat (Shan) 38. Melissa @ Book Nut (Same Kind of Different as Me) 39. Melissa @ Book Nut (Forge) 40. Melissa @ Book Nut (Street Magic) 41. Shadow Blade (Reading Challenged) 42. Life Beyond Measure 43. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 44. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood story from China 45. Before You Suffocate-Danielle Evans -DuskyLiterati 46. Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China (GB) 47. Basically Amazing Books- Slice of Cherry

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