Who am I missing?

[vass]

So, pursuant to my previous post, I want to make my list of 'classic novels' I'm reading this year more diverse. I started with a list by Susan Wise Bauer that was very white and male, and added more women and authors of colour to the mix, but I've now decided that I didn't go far enough. This year's list ranges from 1895-2000, and I don't want to go any earlier than that because I'm reading in chronological order, and I did 1605-1895 last year. OTOH, I am strongly considering dipping back and reading The Tale of Genji because I strongly regret not reading it last year, as the first novel in history.


Here's the list. Authors of colour in bold.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Zorah Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, maybe
Richard Wright, Native Son
Albert Camus, The Stranger
George Orwell, 1984 (reread)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Don Delillo, White Noise
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Total books: 26 (not counting rereads)
Total authors of colour: 10


As you see, I need at three more authors to make my list only half white. They should have some claim to be mainstream classics. They should all be novels, not short stories, essays, memoirs, poetry, or plays. This is because I'll be doing other types of literature in other years: this year is just about novels. I would prefer authors who aren't already listed.

I'm thinking James Baldwin for one, but I'm not sure which book of his. I've already read Another Country. I was thinking Giovanni's Room, but it only has white characters, and that seems like cheating.

Who am I missing?

Edited to add:
I've settled on three novels to add to my list:
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Comments

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

For American Indian authors, you could start with any work by any of the following. (I've suggested titles that might match the idea of "a mainstream classic" - although that terminology's hard to work with in this case.)

Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine
LeAnne Howe - Shell Shaker
James Welch - Fools Crow
N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony
Thomas King - Green Grass Running Water
Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce (although that's since 2000)
Sherman Alexie - Reservation Blues (Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven is somewhere between a set of short stories and a novel, since all the stories are interconnected)
Susan Power - The Grass Dancer
Linda Hogan - Mean Spirit

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

LOVE MEDICINE. So so so good. So good. And House Made of Dawn, my god, the language--it's hard to follow, or it was for me, but it's amazing.