I've signed up again for the POC Reading Challenge. I read 21 books for the challenge last year, so this year I'm going to sign up for level 5 (16-25 books).
As I noted in my wrap-up post for the 2010 challenge, I was disappointed that a large number of the books I read had protagonists of color but were written by white authors. For this year, I'm only going to count books written by authors of color, though perhaps I'll include other books in a separate list. I'm hoping this will help me to discover new authors!
Books read:
1. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
2. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
4. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
5. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
6. Complications by Atul Gawande
7. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
8. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
9. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
10. The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
11. Pym by Mat Johnson
12. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
13. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
14. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
15. The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
16. Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
17. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Books by white authors with protagonists of color: (not counted toward challenge)
- Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
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