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50 Books By POC Suggested Reading: Updated 2014 & An Evolving Work in Progress

May 31, 2014 10:47

50 Books by POC Challenge

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Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101.
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
Shobhaa Dé, Bollywood Nights.
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Zarah the Windseeker. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nikki Giovanni, Sacred ( Read more... )

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popelizbet June 1 2009, 03:31:05 UTC

I have not read Ngugi wa Thiong'o - that would be my friend leastlikely, although I will have read the listed book by the end of the year. I have read some of Zora's short fiction, but none of the longer works, which I do intend to rectify.

Feel free to hang around here if you like!

heliophobe July 22 2009, 16:59:22 UTC

Adding another recommendation! And I'm not even done reading it.

Assata by Assata Shakur. Autobiography. Brilliant writing style.

popelizbet July 22 2009, 17:01:07 UTC

I have that on my wishlist but hadn't added it here. Thanks!

heliophobe October 6 2009, 16:08:27 UTC

Adding some more!

Confessions by Saint Augustine. Now I don't think that this book needs much of a push in that it is already widely respected by Catholics and Orthodox all over the planet, but I do think it needs a push because no one ever remembers that it's author, one of the major theological influences in the church was an African (He was a Berber from what is now Algeria specifically.)

Also Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani, an Indo-Canadian author. Really neat yet sad story of a young, idealistic boy who leaves his orphanage in Bombay in search of his father and wanders out into streets filled with Muslim-Hindu violence. Really recommended.

popelizbet October 6 2009, 18:33:11 UTC

Nice. Thanks!

myrrhmade December 30 2009, 00:57:48 UTC

Hey! I've emailed you a few times, is everything ok?

popelizbet December 30 2009, 01:19:18 UTC

I responded; my holidays were a living hell, no fault of yours.

myrrhmade December 30 2009, 03:50:44 UTC

Ugh, so sorry about that. =[
Got it, responded!