February 2018 #DiversifyYourBookshelf Suggestions — People of Colour: Protagonists

Hi all!

This year I’ve been soliciting suggestions from friends on a theme each month to help me diversify my reading! I’ve decided to collate the lists here on my page in case this helps anyone else make some new reading choices!

February’s theme was to read something where the main character is a person of colour. Below in no particular order, are suggestions I received.

Homegoing — Ya Gyasi

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard — Kiran Desai

This is How You Lose Her — Junot Diaz

The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas

A Tiger’s Heart — Aisling Shen

We Need New Names — NoViolet Bulawayo

Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Adichie

Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Palm Wine Drunkard — Amos Tutuola

Who Fears Death — Nnedi Okorafor

The Famished Road — Ben Okri

The №1 Ladies Detective Agency — Alexander McCall Smith

Dust — Yvonne Adhiambo

Coolie — Mulk Raj Anand

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found — Suketu Mehta

The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga

The Broken Earth Trilogy — N.K. Jemisin

Illustrado — Michael Syjuco

The Queue — Basma Abdel Aziz

The Three Body Problem — Cixin Liu

The Lions of Al-Rassan — Guy Gavriel Kay

Under Heaven — Guy Gavriel Kay

Alif the Unseen — G. Willow Wilson

Indian Horse — Richard Wagamese

Islands of Decolonial Love — Leanne Simpson

Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi

Birdie — Tracy Lindberg

Like Water for Chocolate — Laura Esquivel

The Surrendered — Chang-rae Lee

A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry

Parable of the Sower — Octavia Butler

None of these are books I’ve read, so I’m excited to add them to the list. Hope this helps you find some reading of your own!