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The Diverse Voices Book Challenge provides an opportunity to learn about different populations, identities, and experiences that are present within our campus community. This initiative looks at heritage months to highlight varying perspectives to help start conversations, provide proper terminology, and reflect on what you've read.

  • Register Register to participate in the challenge here!
  • Book Reflection Form Complete this form after a book is finished to keep track of your progress during the challenge
  • To complete the challenge, participants need to read over the course of the 2023-2024 academic year, from a variety of categories listed below:

    • September: Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month
    • October: LGBTQA+ History Month & Mental and Physical Disability Awareness Month
    • November: Native American Indian Heritage Month & Veteran and Military Appreciation Month
    • December: Spiritual and Religious Awareness Month
    • February: African American History Month
    • March: National Women's History Month
    • April: Hmong Heritage Month & International Student Appreciation Month
    • May: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

    Participants will receive a Tier II credit for every two books they read, and are able to earn up to four, Tier II credits in an academic year.

    Once a book is completed, participants need to complete a reflection form in order to log the book. Twelve featured books are displayed below to help provide a starting point, or you can look through the book lists below for other suggestions per month.  Other titles can be considered beyond what is provided or be counted towards other categories they are not listed under.

    Amplified Authors

    Amplified Authors is an initiative with the Equity in Student Matters Commission of Student Senate, where several mini libraries are available across campus to celebrate different identities and heritage month celebrations. These libraries are designed to provide free access to fiction and non-fiction titles around equity, diversity and inclusion. Current and previous featured titles from this book challenge are available for free in these community libraries. If you have any questions about the Amplified Authors project, please contact Student Senate at esm@uwec.edu

    Below are lists of other titles that can be utilized for each category. This is only a starting list and not exclusive. Other materials can be considered at any time and added to these lists.  Many books are also intersectional and can be counted for a variety of categories.

    Hispanic-Latino Heritage

    ·         A Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

    ·         Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda

    ·         Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

    ·         Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

    ·         By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

    ·         Casi Una Mujer by Esmeralda Santiago

    ·         City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

    ·         Days and Night of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano

    ·         Drown by Junot Diaz

    ·         Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

    ·         Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    ·         Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel Jose Older

    ·         How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

    ·         How to Travel Without Really Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America by Andres Neuman

    ·         I’ll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa de los Santos

    ·         Into the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea

    ·         Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda

    ·         Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava

    ·         Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    ·         Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

    ·         Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet

    ·         Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

    ·         One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    ·         Only the Road/Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry by Margaret Randall

    ·         Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

    ·         Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

    ·         Sketches of the Valley and the Other Works by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

    ·         Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique

    ·         The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

    ·         The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    ·         The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito by Miguel Pinero

    ·         A Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

    ·         The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

    ·         The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

    ·         The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    ·         The Road to Llorona Park by Christopher Carmona

    ·         The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes

    ·         This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

    ·         Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

    ·         Umami by Laia Jufresa

    ·         Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes

    ·         Viente Poemas De Amor Y Una Cancion Desesperada by Pablo Neruda

    ·         We the Animals by Justin Torres

    ·         When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

    LGBTQA+ History

    ·         A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

    ·         A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass

    ·         A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

    ·         Ask a Queer Chick by Lindsay King-Miller

    ·         Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt

    ·         Before Everything by Victoria Redel

    ·         Believe Me by Eddie Izzard

    ·         Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

    ·         Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

    ·         Days without End by Sebastian Barry

    ·         Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

    ·         Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn

    ·         Forcing the Spring by Jo Becker

    ·         Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

    ·         How to Survive Summer by Nick White

    ·         James Merrill by Langdon Hammer

    ·         My Two Moms by Zach Wahls

    ·         On Being Different by Merle Miller

    ·         Party of One by Dave Holmes

    ·         Planetfall by Emma Newman

    ·         Prudence by David Treuer

    ·         Radical Hope by Carolina de Robertis

    ·         Resistance, Rebellion, Life by Amit Majmudar

    ·         Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

    ·         Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

    ·         Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino

    ·         Stuck in the Middle with You by Jennifer Finney Boylan

    ·         Stung with Love by Sappho

    ·         Take Me with You by Andrea Gibson

    ·         Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

    ·         The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

    ·         The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias

    ·         The Danish Girl by David?

    ·         The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

    ·         The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis

    ·         The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

    ·         The Lauras by Sara Taylor

    ·         The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

    ·         The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

    ·         The New Old Me by Meredith Maran

    ·         The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

    ·         The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

    ·         The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan

    ·         We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

    ·         When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

     

    Mental and Physical Disability Awareness

    ·          A Difference in the Family by H. Featherstone

    ·          A Kind of Miraculous Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia by Sandra Allen

    ·          Aidan's Way: The Story of a Boy's Life and a Father's Journey by G.T. Crane

    ·          All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

    ·          Body, Remember by K. Fries

    ·          Changed by a Child by B. Gill

    ·          Defying the Verdict: My Bipolar Life by Charita Cole Brown

    ·          Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by J. Callahan

    ·          Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

    ·          Everything is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

    ·          Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by E. Clare

    ·          Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic by M. Beck

    ·          Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

    ·          Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Seelsa

    ·          Fighting for Darla: Challenges for Family Care & Professional Responsibility: The Case Study of a Pregnant Adolescent with Autism by E. Brantlinger, S. Klein and S. Guskin

    ·          First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson

    ·          Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

    ·          Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan R. Nussbaum

    ·          It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

    ·          Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser

    ·          Life as We Know It: A Father, Family, & an Exceptional Child by M. Berube

    ·          Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression & the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

    ·          Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by L. Blackman

    ·          Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway

    ·          Meditations from a Movable Chair by A. Dubus

    ·          Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars, Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride by S.E. Brown

    ·          My Heat and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

    ·         My Left Foot by C. Brown

    ·          Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto

    ·          Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

    ·          Rescuing Jeffrey by R. Galli

    ·          Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out by K. Fries

    ·          The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

    ·          Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin

    ·          The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

    ·          The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    ·          The Broken Cord by M. Dorris

    ·          The Child Who Never Grew by P.S. Buck

    ·          The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

    ·          The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by J. Bauby

    ·          The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness by Mary Pilon

    ·          The Memory Light by Francisco X. Stork

    ·          The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska

    ·          The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

    ·          The Power of the Powerless by C. De Vinck

    ·          The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

    ·          The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation: Two Life Stories by R. Bogdan and S. J. Taylor

    ·          The Spirit Catched You & You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, & the Collision of Two Cultures by A. Fadiman

    ·          The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

    ·          There's a Boy in Here by J. Barron and S. Barron

    ·          We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

    ·          Where is the Mango Princess? By C. Crimmins

    ·          Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

    ·         Wonder by R.J. Palacio

    Native American Indian Heritage

    ·         An American Café by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

    ·         Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

    ·         Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

    ·         Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo

    ·         Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

    ·         Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria

    ·         Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

    ·         Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations and the U.S. Constitution by Oren Lyons

    ·         Fools Crow by James Welch

    ·         House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

    ·         Indian Lawyer by James Welch

    ·         Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese

    ·         Killing the White Man’s Indian: The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century by Fergus M. Bordewich

    ·         Lakota Woman by Richard Erdoes and Mary Crow Dog

    ·         Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

    ·         Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

    ·         People of the Whale by Linda Hogan

    ·         Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

    ·         Power by Linda Hogan

    ·         Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy

    ·         Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria Jr.

    ·         Reinventing the Enemy’s Language by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

    ·         Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent by Jay Fikes and Walter Echo-Hawk

    ·         Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe

    ·         Sundown by John Joseph Mathews

    ·         The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

    ·         The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge by D. Fixico

    ·         The Dance Boots by Linda LeGarde Grover

    ·         The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong by Stephen Graham Jones

    ·         The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

    ·         The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch

    ·         The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale

    ·         The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick

    ·         The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians by Kenneth Rosen

    ·         The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

    ·         The Round House by Louise Erdrich

    ·         The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens

    ·         The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko

    ·         Tracks by Louise Erdrich

    ·         Whale Ride by Witi Ihimaera

    ·         When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

    ·         Winter in the Blood by James Welch

    ·         Wisdom Keepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden

    ·         Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

    ·         You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

    Veteran and Military Appreciation

    ·         A Double Dose of Hard Luck by Leo Amie Labrie

    ·         A Lifetime at War: Life After Being Severely Wounded in Combat; Never Ending Dung by Gordon L. Ewell

    ·         A Return to Meadow Wood by Sam Rawlins

    ·         American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle

    ·         Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

    ·         Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

    ·         Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic

    ·         Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

    ·         Dishonoring the Honorable by M. Plante

    ·         Fire and Forget by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton

    ·         Goodbye Vietnam by William Broyles

    ·         Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

    ·         House to House by David Bellavia

    ·         How to Grow a Beard: A Military Transition Guide Back into Civilian Life by Robert Graves

    ·         Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams

    ·         Military Life: Service or Career A Soldier's Perspective by John McClarren

    ·         No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by Diane Burke Fessler

    ·         On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

    ·         Regeneration by Pat Barker

    ·         The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

    ·         The Snake Eaters by Owen West

    ·         The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

    ·         The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

    ·         Then I Came Home by Sam Gaylord

    ·         Vietnam Reflections: The Untold Story of the Holley Boys by Michael T. Keene

    ·         Vietnam War Through the Eyes of the Teenage Soldier by Thomas R. Joyce

    ·         War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Edward Tick

    ·         We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

    ·         What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

    Spiritual and Religious Awareness

    ·         A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strengths to Love and Other Preachings by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    ·         A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life by Shantideva

    ·         A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

    ·         Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yoganada

    ·         Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism by Neil J. Kressel

    ·         Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization by Reza Aslan

    ·         Crisis of Conscience: The Story of the Struggle Between Loyalty to God and Loyalty to One's Religion by Raymond Franz

    ·         Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science by Mike McHargue

    ·         Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World by Shelina Janmohamed

    ·         Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump by Kenneth L. Woodward

    ·         God: A Human History by Resa Aslan

    ·         Growing Up in Mama's Club by Richard E. Kelly

    ·         How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life by Dalai Lama

    ·         I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim

    ·         Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick

    ·         Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World by Timothy Keller

    ·         Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain

    ·         No god but God by Reza Aslan

    ·         Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf

    ·         The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama

    ·         The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

    ·         The Coming Deliverer by Fiona Bowie

    ·         The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson

    ·         The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

    ·         The Fear of Islam: An Introduction of Islamophobia in the West by Todd H. Green

    ·         The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik

    ·         The Man Who Wasn't There: Tales from the Edge of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy

    ·         The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson

    ·         The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture by Paul S. Fiddes

    ·         The Power of Positive Energy by Andrian Teodoro

    ·         The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife: Move to the Golden City by Rivka Levy

    ·         The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham

    ·         The Town Beyond the Wall by Elie Wiesel

    ·         Thirst by Mary Oliver

    ·         Virtually Islamic: Computer-Mediated Communication & Cyber Islamic Environments by Gary Bunt

    ·         Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

    African American History

    ·          Africana by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates

    ·          Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

    ·          Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

    ·          Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

    ·          Beloved by Toni Morrison

    ·          Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    ·          Black Boy by Richard Wright

    ·          Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Davis

    ·          Blues People by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

    ·          Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

    ·          Bud , Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

    ·          Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory

    ·          Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

    ·          Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow

    ·          Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley

    ·          From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin

    ·          God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson

    ·          Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

    ·          Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

    ·          I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

    ·          Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs

    ·          Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    ·          Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

    ·          Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    ·         Lost Prophet: The Life & Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio

    ·          Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

    ·          Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

    ·          Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

    ·          Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

    ·          Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

    ·          Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson

    ·          The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

    ·          The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

    ·          The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

    ·          The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

    ·          The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

    ·          The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young

    ·          The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

    ·          The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

    ·          The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

    ·          The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

    ·          The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker

    ·          The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

    ·          The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

    ·          The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

    ·          Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    ·          They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima

    ·          Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

    ·          Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph

    ·          What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson

    ·         Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

    National Women's History

    ·         A Woman's Place is at the Top by Hannah Kimberley

    ·         A Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand In the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

    ·         Afterland by Mai Der Vang

    ·         All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

    ·         Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

    ·         Bossypants by Tina Fey

    ·         Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    ·         Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

    ·         Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

    ·         Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

    ·         Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton

    ·         Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

    ·         Hunger by Roxane Gay

    ·         I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Inspired by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

    ·         I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

    ·         In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle

    ·         Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

    ·         Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    ·         Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

    ·         March Forward, Girl by Melba Patillo Beals

    ·         Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

    ·         Meet Cute by Nicola Yoon, Nina Lacour and others

    ·         My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

    ·         My Body is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta

    ·         My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    ·         Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood by Hollie McNish

    ·         Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    ·         Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

    ·         Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

    ·         Radium Girls by Kate Moore

    ·         She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton

    ·         She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

    ·         Shrill by Lindy West

    ·         Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill

    ·         The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

    ·         The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

    ·         The Radical Element by Jessica Spotswood

    ·         The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    ·         The Woman Who Smashed Codes

    ·         This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

    ·         We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    ·         Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

    ·         Yes Please by Amy Poehler

    International Student Appreciation

    ·         A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

    ·         A Resistencia by Julian Fuks

    ·         Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoiz Adichie

    ·         Chinese Students Encounter America by Qian Ning

    ·         Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

    ·         Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

    ·         English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee

    ·         Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

    ·         Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw

    ·         Goat Days by Benyamin

    ·         Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

    ·         Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

    ·         KL Noir Series by various authors

    ·         My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    ·         Noite Dentro da Noite by Joca Reiners Terron

    ·         O Livro Amarelo do Terminal by Vanessa Barbara

    ·         Once We Were There by Bernice Chauly

    ·         Ordinary People by Diana Evans

    ·         Out by Natsuo Kirino

    ·         Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

    ·         Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung-Sook

    ·         Popular Music from Vittula

    ·         Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer

    ·         The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond

    ·         The Boat to Redemption by Su Tong

    ·         The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe

    ·         The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

    ·         The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

    ·         The Harmony of Silk Factory by Tash Aw

    ·         The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

    ·         The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

    ·         The Lido by Libby Page

    ·         The Only Story by Julian Barnes

    ·         The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

    ·         The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

    ·         The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

    ·         The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

    ·         The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke

    ·         Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu

    ·         Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

    ·         Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

    Asian Pacific American Heritage

    ·         A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

    ·         A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

    ·         A World Without Boundaries: A Story of Human Atrocities, Despair, Migration, and Interconnections by Ge Xiong

    ·         Afterland by Mai Der Vang

    ·         All In by Jerry Yang

    ·         Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua

    ·         Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp by Lynellyn D. Long

    ·         Brothers by Yu Hua

    ·         Calling the Soul by Patricia V. Symonds

    ·         Chicago: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany

    ·         Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

    ·         Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

    ·         First they Killed My Father by Loung Ung

    ·         Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung

    ·         Hmong in Minnesota by Chia Vang

    ·         Human Acts by Han Kang

    ·         I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience by Lillian Faderman

    ·         In the Country by Mia Alvar

    ·         Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

    ·         Lonesome Lies Before Us by Don Lee

    ·         Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok

    ·         Many Ideas Open the Way: A Collection of Hmong Proverbs by Randy Snook

    ·         Music of Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner

    ·         No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakest Satyal

    ·         Obasan by Joy Kogawa

    ·         On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

    ·         Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

    ·         Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen

    ·         Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

    ·         The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

    ·         The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

    ·         The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    ·         The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

    ·         The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

    ·         The Leavers by Lisa Ko

    ·         The Mountain by Paul Yoon

    ·         The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    ·         The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin

    ·         The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

    ·         The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea

    ·         The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

    ·         Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars of Laos, 1942-1992 by Jane Hamilton-Merritt

    ·         Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

    ·         War Trash by Ha Jin

    ·         Year of the Dog by Henry Chang

    If you have any recommendations for titles or ways to improve the Diverse Voices Book Challenge for the future, please contact Katy Rand at randka@uwec.edu.