Silvana is all about diversity and its challenges

[Silvana]

Inspired by this: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/featur... and adding my own categories

Regions here also included "inspired by".

Main Character is Chinese/East Asian Altered Carbon
Main Character is Middle Eastern Alif the Unseen
Main Character is Central Asian The City & the City
Main Character is Southeast Asian Cantik itu Luka
Main Character is Black Parable of the Talents, Whispers Underground, Countdown City, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, Black Panther #1, The Hanging Tree, The Salt Roads
Main Character is Indian/South Asian The Devourers
Main Character is Indigenous Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience
Main Character is Latinx New Moon
Main Character is Russian/Eastern European Deathless
Main Character is Ginger Tower of Thorns
Main Character is Gay Blackfish City
Main Character is Lesbian Provenance,
Main Character is Bisexual Embassytown, The Salt Roads, The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Library Edition
Main character is Asexual Every Heart a Doorway
Main Character is Transgender Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time
Main Character is Disabled The Cuckoo's Calling, The Gray House
Main Character is Not Human Children of Time, Ahsoka
Main Character does not have the ideal(ized) body type The Dispossessed, Foundryside

[Lena]

Good luck!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Very cool! I'm looking forward to adding some to my TBR as you start filling out your list. :)

[Miche]

Great idea!

[Margret, Caladan Brood Face]

I like your additions! I think I may have to add them to mine!

[Silvana]

Thanks, gals! I am still mapping out my list based on what I have so far.

Might need some suggestions on the American-based characters.

[Silvana]

Just finished with The Devourers and it can fill four categories up there:

Indian
Not human
Bisexual
Not ideal body type

I should have put West Asian too.

[Silvana]

I only have some left.

Main Character is Middle Eastern
Main Character is Southeast Asian
Main Character is Latino

My TBR has not been accommodating these categories. Any suggestion will be considered :)

[Lena]

I’m counting on my copy of The City of Brass to help me there.

[Lena]

For Latino you could check out Dark Run.

[Lena]

Oh, and I’m hoping to read Ponti much later this year.

[Silvana]

Lena wrote: "For Latino you could check out Dark Run."

this one?
Dark Run

I just remembered New Moon actually has Brazilian characters so I will just move it for now since I got the bisexual category covered already.

I am also looking at Certain Dark Things....

Lena wrote: "I’m counting on my copy of The City of Brass to help me there."

Too bad it's a series. I'm trying to cut the series I follow. But it's on discount so I might consider.

[Virginie]

For Southeast Asian: Temple of a Thousand Faces, In the Shadow of the Banyan and The Last Gods of Indochine

Haven't read 'em but those books have been recommended by my librarian. Sorry I don't have pure Fantasy recommendations :/

[Silvana]

Virginie wrote: "For Southeast Asian: Temple of a Thousand Faces, In the Shadow of the Banyan and The Last Gods of Indochine

Haven't read 'em but those books have be..."

Interesting picks! And thanks to you, you made me realize I'm totally stupid.
How on earth I forgot my own country is in Southeast Asia. SIGH. I'm frickin Indonesian, and I do have some Indonesian books in my TBR, two of them are supernatural fantasy: Man Tiger and Beauty Is a Wound.

[Silvana]

Lena wrote: "Oh, and I’m hoping to read Ponti much later this year."

Dang! Ponti is a female vampiric ghost in Malay mythology, and it's the scariest thing I know.

[Silvana]

Apparently Alif the Unseen is also on discount. Let's see which sample I'll like.

[Virginie]

Oh, I just noticed that 'inspired by' works for your challenge too...

Then: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn, The City of Brass, The Desert of Souls and Throne of the Crescent Moon.

[Virginie]

Damn, this challenge looks like fun! I didn't notice it before... Might join when I finish my Bingo challenge :D

[Silvana]

Virginie wrote: "Damn, this challenge looks like fun! I didn't notice it before... Might join when I finish my Bingo challenge :D"

You should!

And I might join the Bingo challenge after this.

[Silvana]

Two more to go!

[Silvana]

Finished. Was not easy but I made it.

[Bea]

Congrats!
Just saw this challenge now, what a great idea!
I should read more diverse books as well, that would be a good goal for 2019!

[Silvana]

It was quite fun, I will do another one next year with slightly different, less ambitious categories.

[Sha]

//applauds

I found it hard enough to do the miniature version. Congrats! :D