Fiction

Audit Process - Fiction

The fiction collection took the most time to manually review and audit. For fiction, we focused on the same categories for racial/cultural representation, as well as LGBTQ+ and Disability representation. We also marked books as “Own Voices” when such information was publicly available.

Number of Fiction Books Audited: 2466

Fiction Representation:

Black: 5% (3% girls, 2% boys)

AAPI: 4% (3% girls, 1% boys)

Latinx: 2% (1% girls, 1% boys)

Arab/Middle Eastern: <1%

Native/Indigenous: <1%

Multiple/Unclear: 4% (3% girls, 1% boys)

White: 70% (34% girls, 36% boys, <1% other gender)

Animal/Non-Human: 12%

LGBTQ+: 2%

Disability: 5%

Own Voices: 43% (43% of books with marginalized characters are written by authors who share that identity)