Ten more books
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50books_pocI've only read nine since my previous post, but discovered that one author I had already read fits this community.
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler - essential reading
Search for a New Somali Identity, by Hussein Ali Dualeh - memoir of a senior political figure
From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah - fascinating
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston - interesting memoir of life as a Chinese girl growing up in California
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan - a great sf anthology
Jewel, by Beverly Jenkins - nineteenth-century romance
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi - a brilliant book about literature in a society which is closing itself up
Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi - graphic novel about life in Austria and Iran
Shortcomings, by Adrian Tomine - a character study of a young Japanese-American (graphic novel)
32 Stories, by Adrian Tomine - Tomine's early work, a collection of short stories (graphic format)
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler - essential reading
Search for a New Somali Identity, by Hussein Ali Dualeh - memoir of a senior political figure
From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah - fascinating
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston - interesting memoir of life as a Chinese girl growing up in California
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan - a great sf anthology
Jewel, by Beverly Jenkins - nineteenth-century romance
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi - a brilliant book about literature in a society which is closing itself up
Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi - graphic novel about life in Austria and Iran
Shortcomings, by Adrian Tomine - a character study of a young Japanese-American (graphic novel)
32 Stories, by Adrian Tomine - Tomine's early work, a collection of short stories (graphic format)
