Diversity Month: Reading Recommendations

Diversity Month: Reading Recommendations

April is Diversity Month! We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult, YA and children’s books that celebrate diverse voices.

April is Diversity Month! We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult, YA and children’s books that celebrate diverse voices.

April 25, 2022

Adult Books

Shared by Attila Berki, Quill & Quire‘s acting review editor

 

Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language by Eufemia Fantetti; Leonarda Carranza; Ayelet Tsabari, eds

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Red X by David Demchuk

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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 

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Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem 

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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

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A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

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Children’s Books

Shared by Inderjit Deogun, Quill & Quire‘s books for young people editor

 

Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas

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Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

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Thao by Thao Lam

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Muinji’j Asks Why: The Story of the Mi’kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential School by Breighlynn MacEachern (Muinji’j), Shanika MacEachern and Zeta Paul, ill.

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Moonwalking by Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann

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For more of our themed Reading Recommendations curated by the editors of Quill & Quire:

Let’s Talk About Mental Health:

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

Celebrating Black History Month

International Women’s Day

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