Basically the title. I want to diversify my repertoire. I was thinking about some of my favorite novels and they're all by white dudes:
(in no particular order)
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy – Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
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Big Sur – Jack Kerouac
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A Public Burning – Robert Coover
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Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
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Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
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Man in the High Castle – Philip K Dick
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Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
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Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
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An American Dream – Norman Mailer
. . . and so on and so forth. Apparently those are the types of stories I like. I'm only mid-30s but I have a very boomerish reading habit apparently.
Who do I read that is not a white male author who will take me to these types of places??
Thanks in advance.
by superdrunk1
4 Comments
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Perhaps it’s me but I’ve never checked the race or sex of an author. I just read what sounds appealing to me.
Ignoring that, IMHO, Tortilla Flat is not the best of Steinbeck try “Outlaws of the Marsh” or “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. Both are Chinese classics.
A. Dumas wasn’t exactly White so his classics should be read.
And then there’s so many White female authors…
There’s a book called Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount that spotlights popular books from novels to nonfic that are written by POC, and it could be a very nice reference point for you to start.