Welcome to my Diversify that Shelf readathon announcement!
I’m so excited to share this! I posted about this a while ago on Twitter and it got so much love. I’m so glad that this was received so warmly and I’m looking forward to starting it with you all. I’m going to make sure this readathon is held yearly but might make it multiple times a year too? I guess we’ll see how this goes.
Here are the prompts! I wanted there to be variety but I also didn’t want anyone to feel limited. Most prompts can be changed to whatever you want (in terms of identity, culture, etc). The most important thing is to read diversely. That’s all I want out of this. There are so many amazing books out there and I just hope this will help many of you find them.
The readathon will be held for 10 days. I know there are a lot of prompts and just to clarify you most definitely do not have to finish them all (probably impossible anyway). I made a lot just to give you space to get creative and to get an idea about what’s happening here. You can also count a book for multiple prompts.
There are no rules really. I want this to be as chill as possible. If you make a tbr post do tag me in it. Whether it’s on your blog, youtube, twitter, instagram, etc. I would love to see what you’re reading and to support your content as well.
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Prompts in written format:
Diverse middle grade
Different culture than you
By a Black author (any genre)
South Asian inspired (any genre)
Middle East inspired (any genre)
Focuses on identity
Diverse contemporary
By a Latinx author (any genre)
Non western setting
East Asian inspired (any genre)
POC on cover
A friends favorite diverse read
Own voice (culture, identity, etc)
Diverse book with more than 300 pages
Book by an AOC you’ve wanted to read for a while
Pick a book by an AOC randomly
There are also photo challenges! These can be done on any of the 10 days and you can do them all, a few or none. If you do any of these on any of your platform do tag me! Would love to see your pictures 🥰 You can get as creative as you want with these. You can find me on bookstagram and on twitter.
Hi Noura, I am not able to read the prompts as it’s all in graphics. Would you mind typing them out so that this announcement is inclusive and everyone can read it? Screenreaders don’t pick up on graphics. However, I will try my best to participate as much as possible, but I have to work that week. My holidays start on the 17th 😦
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Oh completely forgot to include a written version! Here’s the typed version: Diverse middle grade
Different culture than you
By a Black author (any genre)
South Asian inspired (any genre)
Middle East inspired (any genre)
Focuses on identity
Diverse contemporary
By a Latinx author (any genre)
Non western setting
East Asian inspired (any genre)
POC on cover
A friends favorite diverse read
Own voice (culture, identity, etc)
Diverse book with more than 300 pages
Book by an AOC you’ve wanted to read for a while
Pick a book by an AOC randomly
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Thank you! Will you put them in your blogpost as well?
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Added!
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YES! I can’t wait to participate! Thank you so much for this!
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Thank YOU for joining me! 🥺💛
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Oh yesss! I’m really excited to participate in this! Thank you for organizing this Noura! 🙂
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Aww thank YOU for joining! 💖
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Very excited to participate and I love your graphics! So pretty!
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Thank you so much! 💖
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this is so amazing ❤
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Thank you! ❤
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Ah I’m so excited about this !! Also, the graphics are so nice, I love them 🥰
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Thank you so much! 🥰
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I’m OBSESSED with the graphics and ahh this is such an amazing readaton. So excited about it!
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AAH thank you Ruby!!
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OOOH, I’m gonna start thinking up a TBR RIGHT now!
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Aaah so glad to hear that! Can’t wait to see 😍
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This sounds so cool! I wish I could participate but I have my finals right around then
Hope your readathon goes well!!
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Thank you! Good luck on your finals 💖
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I’m in! Though I think I’m just going to Diversify My Shelf in the whole month of August. I’ve been doing pretty good at reading diversely in June and July, and I still have so very many diverse reads I still want to pick up. So now I just have to narrow down my August TBR for a more specific TBR for DTS Readathon. This sounds great! Thanks for putting it together, Noura!
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