bcholmes | 50 Books (Reply)

Because I am a lemming, I joined the 50books_poc community after the whole Race Fail 2009 thang. More seriously, like so many others, I'm thinkin' to myself, "Y'know, I should read a few more books by people of colour. Can I make it to 50 in 2009?"

Here are some of the books by people of colour that I can remember reading in the last year or so:

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Eyes of the Heart by Jean-Bertrand Aristide. I have a copy of his book, Shalom 2004, but it's in French and I haven't gotten around to trying to see how comprehensible it'd be to me.
An Unbroken Agony: From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (I think Krik? Krak! might be in the same timeframe; I think I have The Farming of Bones, but I haven't read it). I've also read pieces by her in The Journal of Haitian Studies. (Edit: Yes! I've found my copy of The Farming of Bones. It's gonna be my book for the car ride to Ottawa)
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Shawn Martinbrough
Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Water Wars and Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva
Persepolis and Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

I've also started reading Creating a World Without Poverty by Mohammad Yunis, but it's been sitting on my nightstand untouched for a while. Must finish it, I think. I've got Patrick Bellgarde-Smith's Haiti: The Breached Citadel in my "to read" pile.

So, hmm. That was quite a bit better than I was expecting; must collect my gold star.