#WeNeedDiverseBooks

Today, Undergraduate Students for Publishing met to discuss some of our favorite diverse books. Here’s the list we created:

 

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

 

 

 

 

 

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

 

 

 

 

American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang

 

 

 

 

 

The Lunar Chronicles

by Marissa Meyer

 

 

 

 

 

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

 

 

 

 

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

 

 

 

 

 

Drown

by Junot Díaz

 

 

 

 

This Is How You Lose Her

by Junot Díaz

 

 

 

 

 

Midnight’s Children

by Salman Rushdie

 

 

 

 

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

 

 

 

 

A Great and Terrible Beauty

by Libba Bray

 

 

 

 

 

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

 

 

 

 

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

 

 

 

 

 

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

 

 

 

 

 

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

by Isabel Quintero

 

 

 

 

 

The Odessa Stories

by Isaac Babel

 

 

 

 

 

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

 

 

 

 

 

Dangerous Women

Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

 

 

 

 

 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

 

 

 

 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by John Green and David Levithan

 

 

 

 

 

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

 

 

 

 

 

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

 

 

 

 

 

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

 

 

 

 

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

 

 

 

 

 

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

by Emily Danforth

 

 

 

 

 

Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

 

 

 

 

 

Everything I Never Told You

by Celeste Ng

 

 

 

 

 

On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes