“A More Diverse Universe:” Celebrating the Works of Authors of Color, Year 3!

It’s that time again, Reading People!

Time flies. Last year’s selection was SHERRI L. SMITH’S mind-blowing (and mosquito-the-size-of-a-hovercraft-scary) ORLEANS. In its inaugural year, we highlighted INTISAR KHANANI’s THORN (HM! What is THAT author doing these days…? I need to check and see). And this year’s novel is another fabulously unexpected one which I read last month — and it’s unexpectedness raised it above the other books I was already considering to recommend to the list this year. I’ve already reviewed it but want to give props AGAIN to BABA ALI AND THE CLOCKWORK DJINN, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail & Day Al-Mohamed.

The “A More Diverse Universe” challenge came by way of one blogger, Aarti, challenging other bloggers to read and talk about ONE BOOK written by a diverse author during the last two weeks of September. Just one. If everyone reads — and recommends — just one book… well, then we bloggers will finally become the change we want to see. Are you in? There were one-hundred thirteen recommendations at last count! Click here.

About the author

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very boring and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of nine books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, The Science of Friendship in 1/2024 from Katherine Tegen Books.

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