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!
Click on a title to find it in our catalog; and find many more titles at cobbcat.org.
Children's Picture Books
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
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
Islandborn by Junot Díaz
‘Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
When We Were Alone by David Robertson
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
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung
The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Denise
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II by Joseph Bruchac
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManus
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
The Night Diary by Veera Niranandani
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Ericka L. Sanchez
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Adult Fiction
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
There There by Tommy Orange
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Young Adult and Adult Nonfiction
#NotYourPrincess edited by Mary Beth Leatherdale
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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 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