Call for author recommendations

On By Luther M. SilerIn Reading

8:45 on Christmas Eve is totally the best time to do this, right? I’m sure I’ll get tons of responses.

One of my focuses for my reading next year is going to be on books by women of color. I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to set it up; a percentage of my overall books is a possibility, as is simply setting a raw number of books that I want to read– I’m tempted to say 52, a book a week, but that’s going to mean a pretty good number of new authors.

Anyway, I need y’all to give me some names of authors to read. My rather considerable booklist on Goodreads is here, and I’m not exactly coming at this from a place of complete ignorance (you can leave out Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin, to start) but there have got to be lots of women of color out there that I don’t know about and I want to know about them. I generally prefer speculative fiction, as you probably already know, but any genre, fiction or nonfiction, is just fine. Recommend some books!

(Also: if you know of authors of color who identify as nonbinary, or genderfluid, or basically anything other than male, go ahead and toss their names in here. So JY Yang, who was AFAB but currently identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, counts, but Yoon Ha Lee, a trans man, does not. If you’re not sure if someone counts go ahead and tell me about them and I’ll sort it out myself later.)

7 thoughts on “Call for author recommendations”

  1. Cheryl S.

    Fonda Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Zadie Smith, Nnedi Okorafor, Rebecca Roanhorse, River Solomon, Roxane Gay, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, and that’s

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    1. balli kaur jaswal wrote the most divine novel, ‘Erotic stories for Punjabi widows’ or some such. Since I’m informed by your choices, it’s hard to find POC women authors you’ve not already read. Celeste Ng is one.

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