I’ve seen a lot of people lately doing a Top Ten Tuesday, and to get myself back into reading (it’s been a busy summer and I miss books!!!) I thought I would start blogging about books on Tuesdays. I have a pretty big collection and have read a fair number of titles, so each week I will come up with a theme and put together a top 10 of my favourite reads that fit the topic.
For my first top 10 I’m going to cheat and do a top 20. I just couldn’t narrow it down!! I’ve been trying over the last few years to diversify the types of authors I read and not get stuck in the White American Male view of things. I broke out of the male author pattern pretty easily, but found I was still reading a lot of books by white authors. I’ve done my best to read more Women of Colour, and here are some of my faves! (in no particular order)
- Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson
- Redefining Realness – Janet Mock
- The Killing Moon – N. K. Jemisin
- Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
- Half World – Hiromi Goto
- All About Love – bell hooks
- Ghana Must Go – Taye Selasi
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Land of Love and Drowning – Tiphanie Yanique
- Under the Udala Treets – Chinelo Okparanta
- Kabu-Kabu – Nnedi Okorafor
- The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
- Sister Citizen – Melissa Harris-Perry
- Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
- The Round House – Lousie Erdrich
- We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo
- She Weeps Each Time You’re Born – Quan Barry
- Lilith’s Brood – Octavia Butler
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I’ve only read a couple of these, but at least half of them are on my list!
Spoiler alert: they are all good! Hahaha
Great list!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks!