Global Diversity Awareness Month Booklist
October is Global Diversity Awareness Month - a time to recognize the diverse minds and beliefs held by all cultures around the world. Read beyond your perspective and experience with these diverse books for all ages!
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Children's Picture Books
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed
Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets by Hena Khan
Deep in the Sahara by Kelly Cunnane
Dumpling Day by Meera Sriram
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Hair Twins by Raakhee Mirchandani
Hello, Friend Hola, Amigo by Andrés Salguero
Hundred Years of Happiness by Thanhha Lai
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy by Susan Verde
Islandborn by Junot Díaz
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor
‘Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
On This Airplane by Lourdes Heuer
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk
We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands by Rafael López
When We Were Alone by David Robertson
Yo Soy Muslim: A Father’s Letter to His Daughter by Mark Gonzalez
Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Children's Nonfiction
¡Bravo! : Poemas sobre hispanos extraordinarios by Margarita Engle
Finish the Fight by Veronica Chambers
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle
I is for Immigrants by Selina Alko
I Move A Lot and That’s Okay by Shermaine Perry-Knights
The People Remember by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America by Lisa Westberg Peters
We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell
What’s the Difference?: Being Different is Amazing by Doyin Richards
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Dream, Annie, Dream by Waka Brown
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManus
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Night Diary by Veera Niranandani
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Fresh Ink edited by Lamar Giles
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Ericka L. Sanchez
Into the Light by Mark Oshiro
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Next to Last Mistake by Amalie Jahn
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Adult Fiction
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Thomas
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
The Bad Immigrant by Sefi Atta
The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
The Membranes by Dawei Ji
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen
There There by Tommy Orange
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Yellowface by RF Kuang
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Young Adult and Adult Nonfiction
#NotYourPrincess edited by Mary Beth Leatherdale
A Place to Belong: Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond by Amber O’Neal Johnston
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good by Joan Williams
The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change by Bethaney Wilkinson
Human Diversity: the Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles A. Murray
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Journey of Humanity: the Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor
Letters to a Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara
The Magical Language of Others by EJ Koh
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor edited by Layla F. Saad
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Shamila Sen
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
Relations: an Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices edited by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism — And How to Do It by Anne Celeste Headlee
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar