An Arbitrary Compilation, Part II
The Arbitrary Compilation of Books by/about POC, not!live from your local Delaware library:
Part I
Part II [this one!]
YA Edition
Part III
As always, asterisks mark tentative recommendations, i.e. books that I would check out on a whim if I wasn't so overloaded with backlog.
Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
*Sadika's Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq
The Revenge of the Forty-seven Samurai by Erik Christian Haugard
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
*A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini [ my review; rec'd]
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter
*Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala [about war in West Africa]
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
East into Upper East by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
My Nine Lives by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Crazed by Ha Jin
*Waiting by Ha Jin
War Trash by Ha Jin
Kagami by Elizabeth Kata
*The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
*Mirage by Soheir Khashoggi
Mosaic by Soheir Khashoggi
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
*The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo by Aiko Kitahara
Flowers for Mei-Ling by Lorraine Lachs [warning: protag looks like the stereotypical "Oriental" woman]
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [read before starting this journal; good story but tedious prose]
Katherine by Anchee Min
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Part I
Part II [this one!]
YA Edition
Part III
As always, asterisks mark tentative recommendations, i.e. books that I would check out on a whim if I wasn't so overloaded with backlog.
Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
*Sadika's Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq
The Revenge of the Forty-seven Samurai by Erik Christian Haugard
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
*A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini [ my review; rec'd]
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter
*Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala [about war in West Africa]
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
East into Upper East by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
My Nine Lives by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Crazed by Ha Jin
*Waiting by Ha Jin
War Trash by Ha Jin
Kagami by Elizabeth Kata
*The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
*Mirage by Soheir Khashoggi
Mosaic by Soheir Khashoggi
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
*The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo by Aiko Kitahara
Flowers for Mei-Ling by Lorraine Lachs [warning: protag looks like the stereotypical "Oriental" woman]
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min [read before starting this journal; good story but tedious prose]
Katherine by Anchee Min
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min