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Right now, specifically, diversifying our bookshelves.
Now, amazingly enough, the tastes of groups like We Need Diverse Books happily coincide with my tastes, trending heavily towards speculative fiction and kidlit, with some YA mixed in. And the girls like those too, so win-win, right?
Recently, we got two new kindles, which freed up two old kindles to go to Jenn and my mom. Now, my mom likes mysteries, frequently of the cozy subgenre. And as I'm happily going about loading some of her favorites onto her kindle, it occurs to me that she might like to read something new. (Or she might not. My mother is famously hard to buy for, which is why she didn't get a new kindle. I hate it when we get her something and then she never so much as takes it out of the box.) So naturally my thoughts went "Huh, and I bet all her series feature white detectives. (They do, in fact, and also nominally Christian and heterosexual and all that stuff.)
So, as I do, I googled "diverse mysteries" and found out that there is... pretty much nothing. I don't know if there actually IS nothing, or if nobody has helpfully compiled a 100-entry long list, but the pickings certainly appear to be slim, unless I want the Ladies Detective Agency.
This is more than a little irritating. Any recs?
Now, amazingly enough, the tastes of groups like We Need Diverse Books happily coincide with my tastes, trending heavily towards speculative fiction and kidlit, with some YA mixed in. And the girls like those too, so win-win, right?
Recently, we got two new kindles, which freed up two old kindles to go to Jenn and my mom. Now, my mom likes mysteries, frequently of the cozy subgenre. And as I'm happily going about loading some of her favorites onto her kindle, it occurs to me that she might like to read something new. (Or she might not. My mother is famously hard to buy for, which is why she didn't get a new kindle. I hate it when we get her something and then she never so much as takes it out of the box.) So naturally my thoughts went "Huh, and I bet all her series feature white detectives. (They do, in fact, and also nominally Christian and heterosexual and all that stuff.)
So, as I do, I googled "diverse mysteries" and found out that there is... pretty much nothing. I don't know if there actually IS nothing, or if nobody has helpfully compiled a 100-entry long list, but the pickings certainly appear to be slim, unless I want the Ladies Detective Agency.
This is more than a little irritating. Any recs?
