Diverse Books Resource List 2016

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Last year, I created my first-ever Diverse Books Resource List, a list of lists containing loads of diverse books from just about every category. While initially I'd hoped to update it indefinitely, I quickly realized that wasn't going to be feasible for me, so instead I've decided to cover every year from here on out.

So without further ado! I present to you the diverse books resource list for 2016, organized alphabetically. Enjoy!


Body-Positive lists:

• Brit + Co's 7 Body Positive YA Books That Slay
• BNTeen Blog's 5 Body-Positive YA Reads to Take to the Beach
• BuzzFeed's 19 Body-Positive Books You'll Want to Read With Your Daughter
• Mirrors Windows Doors's 'A Question of Balance': Disability in Children's and YA books from Around the World
• YA Interrobang's Thin To Be Loved: Julie Daly talks fat representation in YA

Disability lists:

• BNTeen Blog's 16 YAs That Get it Right: Mental Health Edition
• BuzzFeed News's 29 YA Books About Mental Health That Actually Nail It
• Contra Costa County Library's Best Young Adult Book Lists: Life Challenges
• Disability in Kidlit's Goodreads shelf
• Disability in Kidlit's Honor Roll of Vetted Books
• The Daily Dahlia's #OwnVoices in Disability and Neurodiversity

Race, Ethnicity, & Religion-related lists:

• American Indians in Children's Literature's Best Books Lists
• American Indians in Children's Literature's Photos: Native Writers & Illustrators List
• Booklist Online's Coretta Scott King Award Winners: 2016
• Booklist Online's Coretta Scott King Honor Books: 2016
• Booklist Online's Pura Belpre Award Winners: 2016
• Booklist Online's Pura Belpre Honor Books: 2016
• Booklist Online's Top 10 Multicultural Fiction for Youth: 2016
• BookRiot's 3 on a YA Theme: Set in Mexico
• BookRiot's (More Than) 3 on a YA Theme: If You Loved Moana
• BookRiot's Wiccan Fiction for Everyday Witches
• BNTeen Blog's 7 Books to Read While You Wait for The Hate U Give
• BNTeen Blog's 8 Must-Reads for Black History Month and Beyond
• BuzzFeed Audio's 13 Times Representation Mattered in Books
• Contra Costa County Library's Best Young Adult Book Lists: Multicultural
• Latinxs in Kid Lit's Reviewed Books: Middle Grade
• Latinxs in Kid Lit's Reviewed Books: Young Adult
• The Brown Bookshelf's Our Books List
• The Daily Dahlia's Books By and About People of Marginalized Races
• The Daily Dahlia's Upcoming YAs by Authors of Color
• The Daily Dahlia's YA Backlist by Authors of Color
• YA Interrobang's #OwnVoices Spotlight: East Asian Authors
• YA Interrobang's #OwnVoices Representation: Native American Authors
• YA Interrobang's #OwnVoices Spotlight: South Asian Authors
• YA Interrobang's International Latino Book Awards announces 2016 finalists
• YA Interrobang's Let's celebrate black beauty on YA covers
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: Black Male YA Love Interests
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: Non-Christian, Religious YA
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: YA fantasy by women of color
• YA Interrobang's Mini-List of the Week: Japanese YA Books by Japanese Authors
• YA Interrobang's We Need Diverse Books announces 2016 Walter Dean Myers Award winners

QUILTBAG+ lists:

• 2016 Rainbow Book List
• Booklist Online's Over the Rainbow: 2016
• Booklist Online's Stonewall Book Award Winner: 2016
• Booklist Online's Stonewall Honor Books: 2016
• BookRiot's 3 on a YA Theme: Queer Stories that Aren't Tragic
• BookRiot's Coming Out and Coming of Age: YA LGBTQ Books
• BookRiot's Finding Trans Writers in Your Favorite Genres
• BNTeen Blog's 7 LGBTQ+ Books With Happy Endings
• BNTeen Blog's 12 Great Under the Gaydar YAs
• BNTeen Blog's 15 of Our Most Anticipated LGBTQ YAs of 2016
• BNTeen Blog's 22 YAs That Get it Right: LGBTQA Edition
• BNTeen Blog's As I Descended Author Robin Talley on Queer YA Retellings of Classic Stories
• BNTeen Blog's Coming Out Is Complicated In These YA Books
• BNTeen Blog's Kick off Bisexual Awareness Week with 12 2016 YA Books
• BNTeen Blog's Meet the LGBTQ+ Authors Who Are Revolutionizing YA Literature
• BN Teen Blog's Meet Three More of the LGBTQ+ Authors Who Are Revolutionizing YA Literature
• Contra Costa County Library's Best Young Adult Book Lists: LGBTQI+
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Bi Girls in YA Fantasy
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Bi + Pan + GFY Guys in Contemp YA
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Bi/Pan Guys in SFF YA/NA
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Contemporary F/F YA with Sex on the Page
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Dystopian LGBTQ YA
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ Fandom YAs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ Royalty
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ YAs by Latinx Authors with Latinx MCs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ YA Retellings of Classics
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ YA Superhero Novels
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Trans Kidlit by Trans Authors
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Queer BFF YAs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Queer Halloween Reads
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Winter YA 2016
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: YA Sci-Fi/Spec-Fic with Queer Male Protags
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: YA Sci-Fi with Queer Female MCs
• LGBTQ Reads's LGBThanksgiving!
• LGBTQ Reads's LGBTQIAP+ YAs Available in Audio
• LGBTQ Reads's Manga/Comics/Graphic Novels List
• LGBTQ Reads's Middle Grade List
• LGBTQ Reads's Picture Books List
• LGBTQ Reads's SFF List
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #1
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #2
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #3
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #4
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #5
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #6!
• LGBTQ Reads's TBRainbow Alert #7!
• LGBTQ Reads's Ten F/F YAs Under Five Bucks
• LGBTQ Reads's Ten Gay YAs Under Seven Bucks
• LGBTQ Reads's Twenty LGBTQ MG + YA Paperbacks Under Seven Bucks
• LGBTQ Reads's New Releases Posts
• LGBTQ Reads's Under the Gaydar: Bad Girls Edition
• LGBTQ Reads's Under the Gaydar: Heartbreaker Edition
• LGBTQ Reads's Under the Gaydar: YA Fantasy Worlds
• LGBTQ Reads's Young Adult List
• The Booklist Reader's Celebrate Pride With Essential LGBTQIA Books for Youth
• The Daily Dahlia's LGBTQIAP+ Books By and About People who Identify as LGBTQIAP+
• The Daily Dahlia's Trans/NB-Identifying Authors
• The Gay YA's Book List: Bisexual Boys in YA
• The Gay YA's LGBTQIA+ YA Masterlist
• The Gay YA's New Releases: June 2016
• The Gay YA's What We Missed: January - May 2016
• YA Interrobang's 2016 Morris Award finalists announced
• YA Interrobang's Bisexual Books Awards announces 2016 nominees
• YA Interrobang's Bookworm's Nest: Julia Ember shares her top 5 queer YA reads from 2015-2016
• YA Interrobang's Lambda Literary announces 2015 finalists
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: Queer YA Fantasy Written by Women
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: Underrated Queer YA

Intersectional lists:

• BNTeen Blog's 6 2016 #OwnVoices Reads You Have to Get Your Hands On
• BNTeen Blog's 7 Awesome Diverse YA Thrillers
• BNTeen Blog's 14 YA Books About LGBTQ People of Color
• BNTeen Blog's 15 More YAs That Get it Right
• BNTeen Blog's The We Need Diverse Books Team Picks 10 2016 Must-Reads
• BNTeen Blog's YA Sci-Fi Starter Kit: 8 Diverse Books That Take You to Other Worlds (and Iowa)
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ+ Jewish MCs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ Muslim MCs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: LGBTQ YA with East Asian Female MCs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: Mental Health LGBTQ YAs
• LGBTQ Reads's Fave Five: YA with South Asian MCs
• Tea & Titles's The Diverse Books Tag
• The Gay YA's Book List: Asian Characters in LGBTQIA+ YA
• The Gay YA's Latinx Gay YA
• YA Interrobang's List of the Week: Inclusive YA Sci-Fi

If you have any 2016 lists you'd like me to add—especially for the thinner categories—let me know! I'd be happy to see this list grow. :) 

Where do you go to find diverse books?

Twitter-sized bite:

Looking for places to find diverse books? @Ava_Jae puts together resources from 2016 to find rep across the board. (Click to tweet)