Top 10 Tuesday! I cheated this week and did 12… there’s just so many good ones! Presented to you in no particular order:

1. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi – When Snow is born to Boy it is revealed that Boy’s husband Arturo Whitman is from a light-skinned black family passing for white.
2. Caucasia by Danzy Senna – Caucasia is the coming-of-age story of Birdie and Cole, multiracial sisters who have a white mother and black father.
3. My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki – Jane Takagi-Little is a Japanese American journalist who is hired to work for a Japanese production company on a television show about American meat dishes.
4. Birdie by Tracey Lindberg – Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC.
5. Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai – Salt Fish Girl intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the shape-shifter, and that of Miranda, a troubled young girl living in the walled city of Serendipity circa 2044.
6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang – Yeong-hye decides to renounce eating meat following a series of strange dreams.
7. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson – Ti-Jeanne, the granddaughter of Gros-Jeanne, is struggling with life in a dystopian future Toronto.
8. Half World by Hiromi Goto – Melanie Tamaki is human but her parents are from Half World, a Limbo between our world and the afterlife. Her mother disappears and Melanie must travel to Half World to rescue her.
9. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler – Dana is a young African-American woman writer who finds herself traveling between her home in 1976 and a slave-era Southern plantation.
10. The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne – Meena, a young woman living in a futuristic Mumbai must flee India and return to her home in Ethiopia.
11. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo – Li Lan receives an offer from the wealthy Lim family to become the ghost bride of their deceased son.
12. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 15 year old Kambili struggles under the strict rule of her Catholic father in Nigeria.