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For readers seeking to find a BIPOC author for the 2023 categories!

Thanks for this. Normally I don't look at BIPOC authors in general but it might be fun to squeeze some in at some point. Though now that I think of it, I have 2 on my list already:

-Pekka Hämäläinen
-Joy Harjo


I'll have to look about adding in others.

Looking through my list of books that I have planned, these are the ones I've noticed are by BIPOC authors so far:

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Critical Race Theory, An Introduction

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

To Selena, With Love



I do want to add more to my list.

Of the books I read for 2022's challenge, here are some suggestions for 2023 prompts:

Book about a vacation: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (a bit of a stretch for "vacation" but not too bad - I HIGHLY recommend this book!


Book with mythical creatures: The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson

Book about forbidden romance: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis; Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones; The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali (possibly a bit of a stretch)

Book with "girl" in the title: Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood At The Edge Of The World by Yang Erche Namu (nonfiction); The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya

Color in the title: The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid; Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones; The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga; White Tears by Hari Kunzru

Main character's name in the title: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma (nonfiction)

Queer lead: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (nonfiction, so a bit of a stretch as there is no "lead" character); My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva (nonfiction); The Empress Of Salt And Fortune by Nghi Vo; Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Book with a map: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya

Just text on the cover: White Tears by Hari Kunzru; What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (does have abstract colors on it)

About a family: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya; Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (more of a "found family" but works if you want it to); Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones; My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis Leyva & Marizol Leyva

Historical fiction: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis; Murder In Old Bombay by Nev March; The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

Please forgive me if something on this list is inaccurate!

I can highly HIGHLY recommend Cantoras, which fits a lot of the prompts for 2023 - definitely one of my top books this year!

For anyone who likes mystery series set in mid 20th century LA, Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series fits several categories this year.

* It's historical fiction.

* Devil in a Blue Dress was Mosley's debut novel.

* The books have a color in (almost) every title of the series:
Devil in a Blue Dress
A Red Death
White Butterfly
Black Betty
A Little Yellow Dog
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Little Scarlet
Little Green
Rose Gold
Charcoal Joe
(And cinnamon, blonde, and blood if you want to count those as colors.)

* At this point I think this series qualifies as a classic that could be read in school.

* It's been recommended by both President Clinton and President Obama, for the celebrity book list.

* For those of us born in the 40s, 50s, or 60s, you can find a book set in your decade. (This is probably what I'll be reading for 60s) (For our younger members - the first book is published in 1990, so there might be one published the year you were born!)

* There is a pet, starting with A Little Yellow Dog, Easy takes him in and he becomes a recurring character (if a dog is a character).

* There is a love triangle, starting with A Little Yellow Dog, when Easy meets Bonnie, but she's also involved with a rich guy in another country. Easy and his married buddy Mouse both engage in dalliances on the side themselves, throughout the series. But the ongoing drama with Easy, Bonnie, and the African prince guy whose name I can't remember is the main triangle.

* A few of the mysteries involve other people in inter-racial romances (which in the 40s,50s,60s counted as "forbidden") - the one I remember is Cinnamon Kiss

* Several of the books have the main mystery character's name in the title (Cinnamon Kiss, Little Scarlet, Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Little Green, Charcoal Joe ...)

* Gone Fishin' could be considered a "vacation" (it's not really a vacation, I'm stretching things)

* Most of the books are set in LA. Depends on how literal you want to be with your definition of "Hollywood" if this counts as "set in Hollywood" for you or not. I mean, I wouldn't use it, but I'm just throwing the idea out there!

* Black Betty & Bad Boy Brawly Brown are alliterative titles.

Kelly wrote: "Of the books I read for 2022's challenge, here are some suggestions for 2023 prompts:

Book about a vacation: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (a bit of a stretch for "vacation" but not too bad - I..."


I bet Cantoras had some Spanish phrases, too, for "two languages"

Nadine in NY wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Of the books I read for 2022's challenge, here are some suggestions for 2023 prompts:

Book about a vacation: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (a bit of a stretch for "vacation" but n..."


Ooh yes I can confirm!! (I only do the regular prompts, so I wasn't thinking about the advanced!)

Girl in the title:
War Girls - sci-fi/YA
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane or Shanghai Girls (same author) - historical fiction
Girl in Translation - historical fiction
The Downstairs Girl - historical fiction
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 1 - manga
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life - comedic memoir
Brown Girl in the Ring - sci-fi
The Girl from the Well - YA paranormal
The November Girl - YA fantasy
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story - nonfiction
Around the Way Girl - memoir

A few others from the ideas I've jotted down:

First-time author
The Book Eaters
Spice Road

Color in the title
Silver Phoenix
Yellow Wife
Brown Girl in the Ring
Portrait in Sepia

Romance with a fat lead
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

About or set in Hollywood
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Published in spring 2023
The Faithless
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy

MC's name in the title
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy (publishing April '23)
Aru Shah and the End of Time
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Just text on the cover
So You Want to Talk About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Book on a celebrity book club list
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Downstairs Girl
Pachinko
Toni Morrison - I believe most of her material has appeared on Oprah's lists

Book about a family
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

Book about divorce
Everything I Never Told You

Takes place entirely in one day
Long Way Down

Alliteration in the title
Assata: An Autobiography
All Boys Aren't Blue

For anyone interested in Indigenous nonfiction, I've got a list here. They were books already in my collection and they fit in a lot of the prompts:

Well this is cool. A majority of my books for the PS23 challenge seem to be Indigenous history, well a selection for the prompts at least. Nice.



A book you meant to read in 2022:

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (also for longest on my tbr)



A book you bought from an independent bookstore:

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park


A book with a color in it:

Redskins: Insult and Brand (also for a book with only text on the cover as well as about a sport)

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A book that's been banned or challenged:

An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States



A book becoming a movie in 2023:

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI



A book with a queer lead:

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America



A book with a map:

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (also for #BookTok rec)



A #BookTok recommendation:

Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance



A book your friend recommended:

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (also for a book you think your best friend would like)



About a sport:

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player


A book you should have read in high school:

Playing Indian (also for independent bookstore)
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928

So I find myself changing up the challenge a bit. After noticing I had some Indigenous topics on some of the prompts, I figured why not take it in that direction? So now I'm going with the idea of using Indigenous authors/themes.

Of the 50, I've managed to fit in these:

1. A book you meant to read in 2022
2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore
3. A book with mythical creatures
4. A celebrity memoir
5. A book with a color in the title
6. A book about or set in Hollywood
7. A book published in spring 2023
8. A book where the m.c.'s name is in the title
9. A book that's been banned or challenged
10. A book that fulfills your favorite from a past challenge
11. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023
12. A book set in the decade you were born
13. A book with a queer lead
14. A book with a map
15. A book with just text on the cover
16. The shortest book on your tbr
17. A book your friend recommended
18. A book about an athlete/sport
19. A book you think your BFF would like
20. A book you should have read in h.s.
21. A book you read more than 10 yrs ago
22. A book you wish you could read for the first time again
23. A book by an author w/the same initials as you
24. The longest book on your tbr



I'm trying to see if I can get it one more just to hit 25. More would be great. I'll be focusing on the Indigenous ones first and then everything else will come later.

And what makes this even better, aside from one, the rest are nonfiction.

Although not written by an Indigenous author, this book features many Native Alaskans. The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic It's about the Nome diphtheria epidemic that became the basis for the Iditarod. Could work for a book with a pet.

Evelyn Araluen, Eunice Andrada and Jee Leong are some I can recommend.

I've planned out many of my reads; if anyone is looking for ideas for the prompts this is what I'm leaning towards:

A book about a vacation:
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

A book with mythical creatures:
Kaikeyi

A book about a forbidden romance:
To Selena, With Love
Honor

A book with "girl" in the title:
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

A romance with a fat lead (for those of us who aren't big on romances - it sounds like this one can fit):
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

A book about or set in Hollywood (I was looking for a fiction book as there are a lot of "celebrity memoir" style prompts on this list and I didn't want to read one more):
Hollywood Homicide

A modern retelling of a classic:
Home Fire
Darling

A book where the main character's name is in the title:
Perla

A book with a love triangle:
The Mothers

A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023 (this one is not 100% confirmed that it will be out this year, so caution):
Leave the World Behind

A book set the decade you were born (1990s for me):
Little Fires Everywhere
The Idiot

A book with a rabbit on the cover:
Little Rabbit

A book with just text on the cover:
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
White Teeth

A book about a family:
The Island of Sea Women

A book about divorce:
Before I Let Go

A book by an author with the same initials as you (KR):
Such a Fun Age
(the book about a divorce above, Before I Let Go, also fits this prompt, for those of us with these initials)

I've finished 2 books so far so here are the prompts I think they can fit:

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai
prompts: a book with "girl" in the title, a celebrity memoir (bit of a stretch), a book with a map, a book about a family, a book about an athlete/sport (one of the girls featured talks about playing soccer)

The Twentieth Wife
prompts: a book by a first-time author (this is not her only book, but it was her first), a book about a forbidden romance, a book about a family, a historical fiction book, a book about a divorce (this is not a huge part of the book by any means, but I know that this topic can be sensitive for some, so if you're looking for a book that mentions divorce but isn't focused on it, there you go!)

I'm almost finished with Know My Name which can fit a book by a first-time author, a celebrity memoir if you want to consider Chanel Miller a celebrity, (a quick google confirmed) a book with a song lyric as a title, a book with just text on the cover (depending on your interpretation), a book about a family.

I recommend:

1) Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe, which fits several prompts: forbidden relationship, queer lead, historical fiction, alliteration

2) Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight - takes place in one day

3) Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran - book about a family

4) Love and Other Dramas by Ronali Collings - book about a family, queer lead

5) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - book about a family

For the celebrity book club list, I was going to go with a Barack Obama rec but then I realized there was (FINALLY!) a book that I had been wanting to read from Opra's reading list.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

It will be out in paperback soon and it's a book I've been wanting to read but hadn't had time for.

Was able to add two others:

A book that's been banned
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Longest on your TBR
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

some books that I considered for Feb:


song lyrics: Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

color in title:
Little Green by Walter Mosley
The Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland (one of my dye mixes is "Rust Brown" so I say "rust" is a color!)

alliteration:
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

I was just reading an article about Black autobiographies and it listed the following: (I think most could work for celebrity memoirs, depending on your definition of celebrity)

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Black Boy
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

The rest I hadn't even heard of before.

Negroland
Heavy (also maybe a fat romance?)
Just as I Am
The Beautiful Ones
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
Assata: An Autobiography
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Up from Slavery
Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Maybe you guys can help me out. I'm looking for Indigenous books that have been banned.

I have 3 so far, but I'm looking for others as well.

In the meantime these are the ones on my list:

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

I believe I saw What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal on a banned books list recently.

Ron wrote: "Maybe you guys can help me out. I'm looking for Indigenous books that have been banned.

I have 3 so far, but I'm looking for others as well.

In the meantime these are the ones on my list: ..."


I thought for sure Jonny Appleseed would have been banned or challenged in a school somewhere, because usually even just the suggestion of queer sex is enough to get a book challenged, and this book has LOADS of it. But it must be flying under the radar because I couldn't find it on any lists. However, while googling for it, I found this article. It's is a really long article and it doesn't actually answer your question, but I thought you might be interested:


But THIS article does list a few books you don't have mentioned:
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These are all children's books:
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story - I have read this picture book and I cannot handle the idea that anyone wanted to ban it - it is such a GENTLE book about family - unless someone was really incensed at the thought of how unhealthy fry bread is??
The People Shall Continue
Indian No More
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga - I've read this one, too. It's ludicrous to take offense at this book. It's not a GREAT picture book, Sorrell seems confused about what age group she's aiming at, because it's simplistic but also detailed and won't appeal to the littles. But that's hardly a reason to ban it! I really should stop looking for reasons to ban these books, there is never a good reason.

Excellent, thanks Nadine.

Nadine in NY wrote: "I really should stop looking for reasons to ban these books, there is never a good reason."

This.