January 1-December 31, 2009
"Read 6, 12, or 24 books by authors of colour."
I will read at least 12 books, with those completed highlighted or linked to reviews.
A Mercy**** by Toni Morrison (African American)
What We All Long For**** by Dionne Brand (African Canadian)
Kitchen**** by Banana Yoshimoto (Japanese)
Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes**** by Tamar Yellin (Jewish)
The Seamstress***** by Frances De Pontes Peebles (Brazilian/Portuguese)
The Spanish Bow***** by Andromeda Romano-Lax (Spain/Spanish)
Through Black Spruce***** by Joseph Boyden (Ojibway/Native Canadian)
My Father's Paradise**** by Ariel Sabar (Kurdish)
The Sum of Our Days**** by Isabel Allende (Chilean/Spanish)
Reading Lolita in Tehran**** by Azar Nafisi (Iranian)
The Madwoman of Bethlehem***** by Rosine Nimeh-Mailloux (Arab Israeli)
Love in the Time of Cholera**** by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia/Spanish)
Total:12
The Disappeared**** by Kim Echlin
The Accordionist's Son**** by Bernardo Axtaga (Basque/Spanish)
Carpentaria****+ by Alexis Wright (Aboriginal Australian)
Belong to Me**** by Marisa de los Santos (Spanish/American)
Becoming Abigail***** by Chris Abani (Nigerian)
The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover (Jewish/Burma)
Other possiblities
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (to be reviewed)
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (African Canadian )
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (African Canadian )
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea (Mexican American)
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (India)
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee (Hong Kong/Chinese)
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (Native Canadian)
The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi (Iraqi Kurd)
Free Food for Millionairess by Min Jin Lee (Korean American)
Trail of Crumbs by Kim Sunee (Korean)
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee (Chinese)
Transparency by Frances Hwang (Chinese)
Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki (Japanese)
B as in Beauty by Alberto Ferreras (Venezuela/Spanish)
Hungry Woman in Paris by Josefina Lopez (Mexican American)
The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas (Venezuelan/India)
Houston, We Have a Problema by Gwendolyn Zepeda (Hispanic American)
Update May 30:
I have reached my initial goal of 12 books, so I am revising my goal to read 24 books by authors of diverse ethnicity this year.
