Looking for male BIPOC authors for my April Bookclub.
What I’m looking for:
meaningful books, rich emotional reads, layered characters (unlikable is okay!), books we can reflect on to challenge, comfort, or call us out, any genre
Books on my list already:
born a crime, chain gang all stars, Indian horse, the emperor of gladness
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Kite Runner
Just Mercy
Stamped
Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Victor LaValle
*What is antiracism and why it means anticapitalism* by Arun Kundnani
*How Europe underdeveloped Africa* by Walter Rodney
*Black Marxism* by Cedric Robinson
*Discourse on colonialism* by Aime Cesaire
*The hundred years’ war on Palestine* by Rashid Khalidi
The House That Echoes Me, L. Vale.
A psychological memoir, told in three voices, about a son raised by a narcissistic mother.
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Fictional tale but with a horrific and very real background.
It won the Pulitzer and deservedly so.
Born a Crime is amazing.
Kindred by Butler,
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Erasure by Percival Everett
Born a crimen by Trevor Noah.
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
I cannot recommend There There by Tommy Orange enough! Such a rich story about indigenous folks in modern day Oakland. All of the characters felt so real and complex, and it’s one of my all time favorite books to this day.
I loved Issac’s Song by Daniel Black and I think it would be an excellent book club pick! I was so bummed that I didn’t have anyone to discuss it with while reading!
*The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven* by Sherman Alexie (or pretty much anything by him); anything by N. Scott Momaday, his poetry is especially strong.
The Trees by Percival Everett
Currently reading James by Percival Everett. I’m really enjoying….