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Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books


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Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books
Intro Music; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria
What We’re Reading
Jenn
[1:05] Victoire, Maryse Conde
[2:30] Bright Lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam
[3:40] Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer
Josh
[5:00] Drinking in America, Susan Cheever (October 13 2015)
[6:10] The Witches: Salem, 1962, Stacy Schiff (October 27 2015)
[9:15] Out on the Wire, Jessica Abel
Preeti
[11:00] The Year We Fell Apart, Emily Martin (January 26 2016)
[13:15] Loki: Agent of Asgard
[15:35] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Intermission; "Intermission" by Lee Fields and the Expressions
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Diversity in Books
[23:50] We Need Diverse Books
[24:10] We Need Diverse Romance, twitter.com/wocinromance and twitter.com/diverseromance
[25:05] On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard
[25:50] Lambda Literary Awards (LGBTQ)
Stonewall Book Awards (LGBTQ)
Schneider Family Book Awards for disability in lit
[27:10] Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman
[27:50] Coretta Scott King Award (African American lit)
Michael L. Printz Award
Alex Awards (for adult books with YA appeal)
[29:45] Words Without Borders
PEN America
Neustadt Prize for International Literature
Lambda Literary
[34:40] Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi
[37:05] Liar, Justine Larbalestier
[38:05] The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan
[39:30] ‘Bring It On’: The Complete Oral History
[41:15] Nalini Singh
[42:48] Chimera, David Wellington
[43:20] My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Jennifer Teege
[44:45] Gemsigns, Stephanie Saulter
[46:10] The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
[46:30] The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, John Chu
[47:20] Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
[48:30] Radio Silence and Signal Boost, Alyssa Cole
[50:30] The Kitchen Daughter, Jael McHenry
[51:35] Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel
[51:50] Secret Wars: Romance
[53:15] The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
[53:30] Batgirl, and its fixes for transphobic language
[53:55] Gotham Academy
[54:00] Fresh Romance
[54:10] Jem and the Holograms, Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell
54:25 Lumberjanes (now canon!)
54:50 George, Alex Gino
[55:30] Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky
[58:00] Write Bloody Publishing
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Outro; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria
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