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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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theslithytove February 8 2009, 20:54:30 UTC

I'm not sure what we're calling POC these days, so I'm not sure if my suggestion would count, but:

Mom's reccomendations:
Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima (great Native American/Mexican, caused quite a stir in CA right now)
Toni Morrison
The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Marakami

My suggestion:
some of all the Holy Books out there from the Eastern Hemisphere maybe?

popelizbet February 8 2009, 21:28:42 UTC

I have read Bless Me, Ultima, in school, and I loved it bunches. :D

Since I read holy texts as separate from pleasure reading, they're probably not going in here, though.

mom has some more suggestion theslithytove February 8 2009, 21:39:54 UTC

The White Castle Orhan Pamuk
Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya
Consider This, Senora Harriet Doerr
Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie
Monkey Bridge Lan Cao
Colors of the Mountains Da Chen

Re: mom has some more suggestion popelizbet February 8 2009, 21:48:04 UTC

Yay, d_w's mom!

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joyshine April 20 2009, 18:14:36 UTC

Upon thinking a bit more...you should totally add Audre Lorde's Zami to your list if you haven't read it already. It's lovely and poignant and sexy and...yeah. Tasty, tasty readings.

popelizbet April 20 2009, 18:15:29 UTC

Ooh, delight! Thanks!

orbitaldiamonds April 26 2009, 01:49:11 UTC

I recommend:

Tanith Lee:
The Silver Metal Lover
Metallic Love
Biting the Sun

Robert Heinlein:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
For Us, The Living
(well, anything by RAH!)

popelizbet April 26 2009, 13:38:31 UTC

I think, respectfully, that you may have missed the point of the assignment. :D But I do thank you for taking the time.

orbitaldiamonds April 26 2009, 15:15:29 UTC

Yeah, I saw that too late. Sorry!

popelizbet April 26 2009, 15:54:17 UTC

It's okay! No harm meant, no harm done. :d

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owl_tn May 4 2009, 20:39:40 UTC

If you're looking for more POC sci-fi it wouldn't hurt to check out Samuel R. Delany. Neveryona is a good one and I really owe it to myself to attempt Dahlgren again.

popelizbet May 4 2009, 20:55:21 UTC

I hear good things about Delany, but no one had recced anything specific. Thanks!

owl_tn May 4 2009, 21:03:01 UTC

There's also Stars In My Pockets Like Grains Of Sand that gets into a whole bunch of genderfuckery. The narrative skips all over the place, but if you've got the attention span and drive to hold the man down it's a good story.

popelizbet May 4 2009, 21:04:38 UTC

See, I don't mind skipping around narrative. Win.

most of the books my mom just bought. theslithytove May 18 2009, 14:57:18 UTC

Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Arranged Marriage, The Vine of Desire, Sister of MY Heart
Ha Jin - War Trash, The Crazed, Waiting
Firozsha Baag - Swimming Lessons and Other Stories
Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Yukio Mishima - Acts of Worship
Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow
Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
J. M. Coetzee - The Master of Petersburg
James McBride - Miracle at St. Anna (It's about the Buffalo Soldiers in WWII)
Conn Iggulden - Genghis; Lords of the Bow

Re: most of the books my mom just bought. heliophobe July 22 2009, 17:00:16 UTC

Good choice on the Mishima there! I love his work. Have you read any Yasunari Kawabata? He was Mishima's mentor and a Nobel Prise winner.