Could we make it easier to find books with diverse characters? I find that it's hard to get accurate book recommendations regarding this issue, even if i put in my preferences that i want to read about black characters (specifically female) or that I want to read books by black authors. Still in my recommendations it's hard to find the books I'm looking for. If I manage to find them, it's by luck. Even if I check personnal (or not personnalized) recommendations from books with diverse characters, most of the recs are not diverse, themselves.
My suggestions would be....
1)To be more detailed when we say that a book has a diverse cast in our reviews in the ''Diverse cast of charcters?'' slot (diverse cast how? diverse in sexuality, ethnicity, race?). And if it is diverse, what is the cast made of? Black characters? Asian characters? (even then, the terms Black and Asian include so much) Lesbian characters? Non-binary characters? Is it the main characters who are diverse? The secondary ones? Idk... I feel like diversity is such a broad term and it incompases so many things that it's hard to get accurate recommendations if there is only one box to check. And it gets a bit annoying when you realize that some books that readers deem to be diverse don't have MAIN racially diverse characters, but only secondary ones.
- To add this feature when we go to get recommendations. Along with genre, pace, length, we should have diversity as well.
This suggestion is not only for the diversity. I feel like we should have the chance to be more detailed with all recommendations. We should have the option to filter triggering topics, or to add specific things that we want to see. For example, I'm an avid romance reader, and I like to read spicy books. When I choose that I want all romance books to be rec'ed, maybe there could be an option where we can choose the level of explicity that we want. And that goes for every other genre as well (but about other things that are specific to them).
I, too, was wondering if theres a quick way to see if books have diverse characters. I totally agree that some books might be marked as diverse for secondary characters which might not be what someone is looking for. One of the labels I would be looking for is "POC main character"