I love fantasy books but recently discovered that most of the fantasy I read revolves around white characters, ideas, and tropes and if POC are involved at all it is usually as random side characters or in racist tropes (ASOIAF, throne of glass, Wheel of Time, LOTR etc)
I’m curious to read fantasy books that surround POC protagonists, specifically black characters.
by Jazzlike-Passenger27
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Really loved the Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi.
The Guilded Ones by Namina Forna
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Steven Barnes is worth your time, especially if you want characters who use martial arts. I enjoyed the Aubry Knight books and *Blood Brothers*, but he has a lot of other work in multiple genres, too. Some of his work is science fiction.
I just finished reading Earthsea yesterday, I’d recommend it
Rivers of London – Peter Grant is Nigerian and English