Hey Booktube! Here are more book recommendations, this time I’m raving about some of my favorite black authors!
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Dawn by Octavia E Butler https://amzn.to/3rRJBBZ
Kindred by Octavia E Butler https://amzn.to/3sODRYQ
The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin https://amzn.to/3LHckBt
Emergency Skin by N K Jemisin https://amzn.to/3JxSWEV
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse https://amzn.to/3GUnLlA
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter https://amzn.to/3LQBeib
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle https://amzn.to/3uVxrK4
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon https://amzn.to/3JyWNl4
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite https://amzn.to/34N4vcL
*Razorblade Tears by S A Cosby https://amzn.to/3GThYNe
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett https://amzn.to/3LClmiV
Becoming by Michelle Obama https://amzn.to/3oTh9xQ
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson https://amzn.to/3gVP7wU
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall https://amzn.to/3LQBlKD
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander https://amzn.to/34GyS4H
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi https://amzn.to/3sHWuhf
*Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi https://amzn.to/3HXwdlt
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Which books would you recommend?
Burn the coal pay the toll mud$h@rk
anything by Nnedi Okorafor is good, especially Binti
Here are a few Black mystery authors that are really good. Walter Mosely, Eleanor Tayor Bland, and S. A. Cosby
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I cannot believe no one in my book group has said a word about most of these authors! Tell me your favorite Octavia E. Butler book please!
Had no idea you had a book channel.
Definitely want to read some of Octavia E. Butler's books this year. I really like the sound of the first contact with aliens one ☺
You only forgot for Black Sun "And the Dad is SCREAMING on the other side of the door for her to open the door"
If you liked Solomon's Unkindness of Ghosts, you might also like her collaboration, The Deep.
A few black authors I liked that you didn't mention:
The Xenowealth series by Tobias S. Buckell (bi-racial)
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
The Conductors by Nicole Glover
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
Great video, I just added a bunch more books to my TBR. Thanks!
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.
I'm reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler right now (finished Parable of the Sower a few days ago). It's uncomfortable to read for reasons similar to why you stopped reading The Witcher. Just terrible things happening to women and children. All the time. Sometimes for reasons I can't discern are important to the plot or not. Also a really uncomfortable romance. I'm still reading it because I am absolutely absorbed by the story and I need to know what happens. Butler is an amazing author, though.
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I really enjoyed The Fifth Season I read it the first week of feb. Thank you for all the reccomendations.
Dexter Palmer’s Version Control is one of my favorites. It’s a time travel story but more literary.
Awesome video!
I have to recommend P. Djéli Clark. His Tor Novellas are amazing. He writes fantasy/steampunk stories that address racism in a very subtle way and his writing is absolutely beautiful!
This is also fitting, especially since in some conservative states in the US there have been book banning in school libraries as well as book burning (merely symbolic in this day and age, but still telling) mostly of books that address race issues, by black authors, including some that you showed in the video. Also books about the Holocaust and anything LGBT inclusive.
I really enjoyed David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, which is described as Nigerian godpunk. It's an adult fantasy set in Lagos where gods are treated like pests and the main character is a Godhunter, or a glorified exterminator, who just wants to do his job but ends up facing down crooked politicians and more powerful gods. Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor was a great sci-fi about a girl given powers by an alien artifact that allow her to kill. Great afrofuturist setting blending old cultural traditions and new technology
Thank you for the informative video 🙌🏿
I recommend Tade Thompson’s The murders of Molly Southbourne. It is a borderline horror/weird novel (? barely more than a 100 pages so maybe a short story). You are following a girl, Molly, who has to be very careful – whenever she is bleeding, other Mollies appear and try to kill her. She is trying to figure out what is happening. Anything else would be a spoiler 🙂
He decided to make it a series, the 2. book came out recently!
So many good suggestions! I don't know if you still read YA sometimes, but I really liked The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
i've really enjoyed raybearer, the tristan strong series, and ace of spades! i currently have the binti trilogy checked out which i'm excited for because i've heard great things about nnedi okorafor
I’m presently listening to The Underground Railroad, it’s good and shattering. Loved Washington Black, Americanah (anything by Adichie basically), Jemisin also has a short story collection I would recommend, uneven but real pearls too. For short essays, I was left very thoughtful after reading Whites, On race and other falsehoods (I’m white, my husband is black, soooo many conversations after that one!). I wasn’t crazy about Children of blood and bones but it’s ok and the narration of the ebook by Bahni Turpin is everything. And of course, Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime is as good as they say. On my own TBR this year are Queenie, White Teeth, Bad Feminist and Homegoing… Ah, pesky TBRs…
I'm currently reading Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate, finished the first book in January. Not surprised she won the Hugo awards for these books.
Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord was some excellent sci-fi about an alien race survivors of a genocide trying to rebuild their species and resettle.
While Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams a new political thriller about a law clerk of a Supreme Court Justice trying to uncover political secrets.
Attica Locke does good mysteries
I really recommend the works of Colton Whitehead, especially The Underground Railroad and the Nickel Boys. Both works of historical fiction, both won the Pulitzer Prize. An outstanding writer.
Some more suggestions: Nnedi Okorafor, Alice Walker, Karen Lord and Helen Oyeyemi. Also Dexter Palmer, who is an SF author I'm currently reading for the first time.
I’ve been meaning to read the fifth season for so long now