Need a Recommendation? Got a Recommendation?

[sanguinity]

Hm. It seems the last time I did a delicious + recs extravaganza was, er, May, which must mean that you have a very lazy mod. Or something.

Interesting and/or useful things that we have been collecting at delicious:

• Booklists
  • People of Color in SF Wiki -- hosted by the Carl Brandon Society
    
  • sparkymonster @ deadbrowalking: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors of African Descent
    
  • Books Recommended by Friends of CoffeeandInk, @ LibraryThing, @ GoodReads -- compilation and index of the recs made in this 500-comment RaceFail post
    
  • Books for our Times -- recommended books by African-American authors that "shed light on our times", offered as a corrective to a white-centric list published by Newsweek
    
  • American Book Awards - Before Columbus Foundation -- (description of the award and foundation). Many authors are POC; despite the connotations of the name, award is multicultural-focused instead of Native-focused.
    
  • (I know a BUNCH of booklists got posted during IBARW; I haven't yet had a chance to go through and compile them yet. It'll happen. If you want to help, do the "for:50books_poc" thing listed below, preferably including a short descrip of what we'd find at that link. Otherwise, I'll get to it when I can.)
  
  
  
• Blogs
  • Glyphs - The Language of the Black Comics Community Blog by Rich Watson, focusing on comics by or about people of color.
    
  • American Indians in Children's Literature -- (had I seriously never collected this before? seriously?) reviews and discussions of kid's books about American Indians, written by Deb Reese of the Nambe Pueblo. Most reviews are of white-authored books that get it wrong, but some of the posts are about Native-authored books.
    
  • Novel Spaces -- Group blog of 11 authors, mostly authors of color, in diverse genres: romance, SFF, horror, erotica, and mainstream.
    
  • BronzeWord Latino Authors -- Latest Latin@ books, author resources, showcase for young authors.
    
  • White Readers Meet Black Authors now has an LJ-feed, whitereadsblack
  
  
  
• POC-centric publishers, booksellers, and advocacy orgs:
  
  
  • Zubaan Books -- Indian feminist independent publishing house. "Some of the distinct lists that are being built in Zubaan are: Gender and Reproductive Health/Sexuality, Gender and Conflict, Gender and Architecture, Gender and Law, Gender and History/National Movement, Gender and Economics, The North East of India (including essays and fiction), Fiction in translation (mostly novels), Readers on the Women's Movement/Feminism, Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs"
    
    
  • Black Science Fiction Store -- books, comics, ebooks, audiobooks
    
  • African American Electronic Literary Network -- promotes African-American e-book authors, and educates urban communities on ebooks
    
  • Black Author Showcase - Agents of Literary Change -- social networking site with blog, bookstore, author resources.
    
    
  • Black Ink Press -- Community-based Indigenous writing, illustrating and publishing project based in North Queensland, with emphasis on children's books
    
  • Jujurrpa Books Publishes the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators. Poetry, oral histories, children's biography, more.
    
  • AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press -- Publisher of Indigenous Studies, part of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Not all authors are indigenous.
    
  • Keeaira Press Publications Australia -- emphasis on photographs and art; not all authors are inidigenous.
    
  • Black Words -- newsletter, etexts, publishers, and other resources. Some resources only available to subscribers.
    
  
  
  
• Individual authors
  • Caren Gussoff -- CC-released short stories by Romani spec-fic author Caren Gussoff.
    
  • K Chronickles and (Th)ink -- website and blog of comic artist Keith Knight.
    
  • Podcast interview with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    

If you have a link to add, either drop it in the comments here or:

• Add 50books_poc to your del.icio.us network.
• Save the link to your account with the tag "for:50books_poc".

And... on to the recs! If you're looking books in a particular genre or on a particular topic, or simply want to say, "Hey, I liked THIS book, what else would you recommend?" leave a comment. With luck, someone might have just the rec for you.

Comments

[scarletts-awry.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links!

And if anyone has suggestions--right now I'm looking for books that are suffused with dread. Absolutely any genre, any time period. I'm looking for books where you sense that something awful is going to happen, but you don't know what or when. (i.e., it's not telegraphed.)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I just read In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami and loved it. You know something bad is going to happen and based on some stuff you know the kind of thing it will be (like, you know it will be X not aliens or ghosts or whatever), but I was totally taken by surprise by what actually did happen and when it happened.