January ScaredyKIT: Diverse Perspectives

The new year is a good time to get a new perspective! The January ScaredyKIT is about diverse perspectives. We’ll be reading horror or thrillers whose authors or main characters are BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color), LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, or anyone you consider outside the mainstream.

Please share what you’re reading, and don’t forget to update the ScaredyKIT wiki!

If you need some help finding a book, here are some lists with ideas:

• LT Diverse Horror list
  
• Diversity in Horror blogspot
  
• Seattle Public Library list of BIPOC and LGBTQIA horror
  
• LT BIPOC horror tagmash
  
• BIPOC horror & dark fiction list at Bookshop.org
  
• LT LGBTQIA Horror list
  
• LT Differently Abled Horror list
  
• Horror list from the Disability Book Archive
  
• LT indigenous horror tagmash

I think I will choose Witches by Brenda Lozano.

I'm not sure what I'll choose, but I've got tons to choose from in my TBR, at least! I wish Noah Medlock had another book out--for anyone who hasn't heard of it, I read his A Botanical Daughter last month, and it was simply wonderful and would fit perfectly! Lee Mandelo is another favorite, so maybe I'll pick up the one unread book of his I've got...

I am planning on reading Lone Women by black author Victor LaValle.

>4 DeltaQueen50:, I've heard such good things about Lavalle's novels, he's one I keep meaning to try!

I plan on reading Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite. Wow, there are lots of books/publications with this title.

>5 whitewavedarling: I am looking forward to this one as it will be my first by this author!

Thank you for the wealth of resources! I'm not sure yet how many books I'll be able to get through in January, but right now my tentative choices if I get to ScardeyKIT are either Harrow the Ninth (as I just started the first in the series) or Rock, Paper, Scissors, a thriller about a man with prosopagnosia (face blindness).

I have a few options for this.

Oh! >8 GraceCollection: I hadn't come across this one (or just didn't notice it), but I'm planning to read Rock, Paper, Scissors for the MysteryKIT; if it fits both, that would be great!

Other options for me:
- The Scratch Daughters / H.A. Clarke
- Moon of the Crusted Snow / Waubgeshig Rice
- All the Sinners Bleed / S.A. Cosby

>9 LibraryCin: I didn't find it in the lists (although I didn't check all of them), I just remembered because I had logged it recently that the main character was face blind and that the cover was wintry!

I think I'm gonna go with Lone women by Victor LaValle for this one.