#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