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ebook-em.bsky.social
This & #thediversebaseline were my fav reading challenges in 2024 and I’m excited that it’s back (and even better, imo) for next year. Join the challenge in StoryGraph 💜
#readmorediversenonfiction
#booksky
amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · Dec 16
#readmorediversenonfiction Storygraph challenge launches today! 6 "required" prompts. 19 bonus prompts. Read nonfiction works by Diverse authors Opportunities to pair your nonfiction reading with a fiction book hosted by @shereadytoread.bsky.social links in bio.
Last year 200 of us committed to reading non-fiction by diverse authors through a Storygraph challenge. It’s coming back for 2025. This Storygraph challenge started as a way for genre fiction readers to expand our understanding of the world and the contexts of many of the fiction books we read. The Non-fiction challenge has 2 main components 6 required prompts 19 bonus prompts As part of the challenge, we commit to talking, struggling, and learning from these books. Some of the prompts have side quests to help you think about how you will take your learning into the real world. Why non-fiction? Reading is political. When we choose to engage solely with fiction, we can ignore the political themes and nuanced discussions within our chosen genres. This challenge invites us to engage more deeply with our fiction works of choice, and it empowers us to deepen our connections to our communities and our shared history. The intent of the challenge: Read from a diverse group of authors writing about their history, community, culture or writing about broad topics. Read books that challenge us. Talk about the books and get more people reading them. What do we mean when we say Diverse? Diversity at its most basic definition is someone who is different from you. In the context of this challenge, we are reading from people who hold different identities than dominant CIS, HET, white, abled culture. This means to meet the challenge's prompts a book must be written by Black, brown, indigenous, queer, trans, and/or disabled person. This year, we will also consider class. If someone was raised in poverty, they meet the intent of this challenge. Picking books for the challenge Editing the Storygraph challenges and keeping out books that don’t meet criteria is difficult. Before you decide to add a book, check to see if it meets the definition of a diverse author. You are responsible for ensuring that at the end of the challenge you have read a wide variety of topics by a diverse group of authors. Could you participate in this challenge and only read books that meet Diversity in one criteria? Yes, this is not the intent. The wide range of topics allow you to tailor the challenge to your own positionality. You have the power to make it what you need it to be. If you find a book that shouldn’t be there, complete this short form, and our moderator will go and remove the book from the challenge. Removing the book just means no one else can add it. It does not remove the book from your challenge. Anti-trans, racist, ableist, antisemetic, and/or Isalmophobic books will be removed when noticed or flagged after a discussion with the Advisory Council. Read-a-longs and discussions Amanda will host a read along on discord/in Storygraph once per month. These books are picked by a vote among members, and should align with specific challenges. We are siblings to Diversify your Reading 2025. This year at least 4 of our books will be read simultaneously with Alise’s book club's fiction pick. So, if you are interested join both! Look for the Double Jeopardy prompts below to find out more. Posting and talking about the Read More Diverse Nonfiction Challenge Use the hashtag #readmorediversenonfiction so we can stay engaged On Bluesky, follow the feed Diverse Nonfiction. Post your updates in the discord! Use the stickers, templates designed by Sam to show off and review your reads. Want to join us? Go to the Storygraph challenge and click “Join” If you want to join the discord, please fill out this form, and Amanda will send you an invite. As you read through the year, tag your content #readmorediversenonfiction and if you want to participate in our community of readers, join the challenge, post the books you're reading and include the prompt, keep an eye out for lives, and request to join our Discord!
December 16, 2024 at 1:44 AM
bookishmillennial.bsky.social
Book club is such a huge glimmer every month ♥️ today, we discussed I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham-Jones

join us as we read books & meet via discord call for my reading challenge (thediversebaseline.carrd.co)

#BookSky #TheDiverseBaseline
A picture of 7 people on a discord video call (:
August 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
bookishmillennial.bsky.social
Book club today with @stardustrohrig.com @bookishlymonique.bsky.social @notsobinaryart.bsky.social for #TheDiverseBaseline

We discussed The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez

Join us next month (on Discord) to read I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham-Jones thediversebaseline.carrd.co
A picture of six people on a discord video call to discuss The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez
July 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
booksnpuppies.bsky.social
I’m reading When Mimi Went Missing by @sujawrites.bsky.social for the psychiatric disability prompt of The Diverse Baseline & it’s so good. Unreliable narrator, so many people w motives, & many theories of what could have happened 👀 #whenmimiwentmissing #sujasukumari #booksky #thediversebaseline
When Mimi Went Missing audiobook
June 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
whereireadthisbook.bsky.social
Goodbye January, you only lasted 572829 days and it really took me a long time to read (comparing only to myself)
Here’s what I read last month including 2 books for #TheDiverseBaseline (4 of my 6 reads would have counted!)
February 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
auteaandtales.bsky.social
I finished this today and this fits several prompts if you’re doing #TheDiverseBaseline next year

#BookSky
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
November 16, 2024 at 6:20 PM
booksnpuppies.bsky.social
I saw the Diverse Baseline has a category for Middle Aged main character and that age starts at 35 and I, at 37, was like wut. I’m middle aged?!? 😩 #imold #imyoung #booksky #thediversebaseline
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
chainingbooks.bsky.social
Reading challenge progress
A screenshot of the Trans Reading Challenge Year 2 (2025) progress provided by Storygraph. It shows that I have read 1 out of the 10 prompts, marking that I'm 10% done. The challenge is run by readwithrhys. A screenshot of the The Diverse Baseline 2025 (Official Challenge) progress provided by Storygraph. It shows that I have read 1 out of the 12 prompts and 3% of the bonus prompts. My overall progress is at 8% and the challenge is run by thediversebaseline
February 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
auteaandtales.bsky.social
I have a new post on my IG (second post this week, I normally post like three times a month 😂) if you’re interested 💗

#TheDiverseBaseline #BookSky
Diverse Baseline Wrap-Up with a Y2K background, it’s pink and blue themed
November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
callmechris.bsky.social
More people should join these sprints! Come in! 💙📚
The Diverse Baseline Reading Challenge (reading sprints - join us! 👋📚🎉)
Have you heard of #TheDiverseBaseline Reading Challenge? This challenge was created by readers, Brittany and Margherita.What's the goal of this reading chall...
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April 13, 2024 at 5:21 PM
chaoticbrainperson.bsky.social
Quick update that the All You Can Read -Genres challenge on The StoryGraph is now populated with 800 books, mostly by BIPoC/disabled authors. 😊

Come check it out!

Most of these books are from #TheDiverseBaseline challenge, that you can find here: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
All you can read - genres
Let's try not to be genrephobic. Come and join in on this challenge, where we try to read at l...
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December 30, 2023 at 10:11 PM
eliaswrites.bsky.social
Here’s what I got. I went with my usual strategy of going through my wishlist and adding everything on sale (plus An African History of Africa which I wanted to read for #TheDiverseBaseline)

and then removing books to reach an acceptable price. Only I didn’t end up having to remove anything 🤩
Screenshot of my Libro.fm audiobook library with the books: The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang, An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice and The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko. Screenshot of my Libro.fm audiobook library with the books: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djéli Clark, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle, Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice and Cultish by Amanda Montell.
April 21, 2026 at 8:34 AM
sarahthebooknerd.bsky.social
Yes!! You can find it app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...
The Diverse Baseline 2025 (Official Challenge) #TheDiverseBaseline & #TheDiverseBaseline2025
Goal: Read 1 book by a racialized author per month, for the entirety of 2025 (a total of 12 b...
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January 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
booksnpuppies.bsky.social
My 10... or 20 Before the End: Whatever I need to finish the Diverse Baseline Reading Challenge (2) & the Trans Rights Readathon (19) Gonna be audiobooking like a champ! #booksky #diversebooks #tenbeforetheend #thediversebaseline #readingchallenge #diversebaseline #transrightsreadathon #books
November 17, 2024 at 5:31 AM