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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BookTok (the original site that got younger readers reading Colleen Hoover, as an example) type videos are now all over Instagram and even Facebook. A lot of regular readers are driving reading right now.

I've also noticed that a lot of reader promoted books are diversity and/or progressive pushes, more than simply a great reads. [/quote]

+1M clearly there is an agenda with the books being published these days.

And no obama doesn't read these he endorses whom ever pays him the most to.[/quote]

I hadn't heard anything about Obama being paid. But he, like many, have an agenda on what he (his team) thinks people should read that furthers their beliefs. And many of the young editors who are buying these days are progressive. As a result, they are buying progressive and/or diverse manuscripts. [/quote]

yeah but I dont think Kirin Desai is included in the diversity push- she was famous way back in the dark ages of when I was in high school in the late 90s. same with Salman Rushdie, jhumpa Lahiri, Chinua Achebe, Jamaica Kincaid. there have been writers of color who get popular and have been for decades- I dont think its fair to include them in the 'progressive agenda'. and all of these others wrote about colonialism and color. id argue that a non Urdu speaking reader wont grasp 30% of a Rushdie novel without annotation. he is having side convo with North Indians in all of his novels that English only readers cant pick up on and he's been writing for decades! Achebe and Kincaid are dead and ppl read them in high school lit classes in the 1990s.  I know what you all are referencing b/c it is very evident in booktok for kids- lists of "diverse" books to replace children's classics that aren't nearly as well written. [/quote]

Agree, read all of those ages ago.

Also, no, Obama does not craft his own lists (nor does he get paid to endorse).[/quote]

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