Poll: Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I’m teaching an Introduction to Literature course this semester and cannot decide between two of Shakespeare’s plays. So I’m going to leave that up to the Internet. Vote away:
The #ThoroughlyGoodBooksbyPoc Reading List
Update: The list is now alphabetical by author! (Note: The following books are what was listed on Twitter under the #ThoroughlyGoodBooksbyPOC hashtag at 5:45 PM EST (the 21st of August). Twitter will not allow me to view anything that might have appeared earlier than the morning of the 21st. It should also be noted that some folks have expanded the list to include books featuring POC characters, even when such books are written by white authors.) A little background: In response to the recent Weird Tales fiasco, author Jim C. Hines decided to switch things around to get people to list their favorite novels by people of color, irrespective of genre. I’ve decided to compile as many of those books as I possibly can. The following list will, I hope, be updated over the course of the week (please understand that I am in grad school, which begins anew tomorrow, and so my time may be limited to do this). (Note: Some authors will not have specific titles listed. This is either because people suggested practically everything written by those authors or specifically stated “anything by.” Please excuse any repetitions you may find.) Now for the list: A Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine Heaven’s Fate by Andre Alan The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Alfar Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar Anything by Isabel Allende Krymsin Nocturnes by Joseph Armstead No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Res Aslan B Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin Dreampark by Steven Barnes Lion’s Blood by Steven Barnes Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain edited by Andrew L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan Zoo City by Lauren Beukes Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Bird Noughts and Crosses by Mallory Blackman Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard Saga de los confines by Liliana Bodoc 2666 by Roberto Bolaño When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Icon by Dwayne McDuffie and M. D. Bright King Maker by Maurice Broaddus The Knights of Breton Court by Maurice Broaddus Anything by Tobias Buckell Anything by Octavia Butler C 32 Candles by Ernessa Carter Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Red Earth and Pouring Red by Vikram Chandra Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Anything by Joyce Chng Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Bob Moses and Charles Cobb Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper White Talk by Chris Crutcher D Wolf at the Door by J. Damask Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis Anything by Samuel R. Delany Playing Indian by Philip Deloria Anything by Junot Diaz Black Candle: Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Chitra Divakaruni Acacia by David Anthony Durham Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham Anything by Tananarive Due E Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling The Budayeen Series by George Alec Effinger Cold Magic by Kate Elliot Cold Fire by Kate Elliot Cold Steel by Kate Elliot The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo F Zero by Huang Fan The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust Shrinking the Heroes by Minister Faust G The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto Half-world by Hiromi Goto Tall Story by Candy Gourlay H Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston Mindscape by Andrea Hairston The Ben January Series by Barbara Hambly When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan Girl, Overboard by Justina Chen Headley Girl Overboard by Justina Chen Headley Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier Changing by Lily Hoang Cortez on Jupiter by Ernest Hogan Smoking Mirror Blues by Ernest Hogan Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan Anything by M. C. A. Hogarth Anything by Nalo Hopkinson So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini God’s War by Kameron Hurley I Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro J Anything by Brenda Jackson The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Red Moonshine by Alaya Dawn Johnson Smoketown by Tenea Johnson Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki Junichiro The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichiro K Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Dung Kai-Cheung Good Luck Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi Yukikaze by Chouhei Kambayashi Polar City Blues by Katharine Kerr SNARE by Katharine Kerr Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston Transmission by Hari Kunzru L The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Liar by Justine Larbarlastier The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. LeGuin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Night, Again by Dinh Linh Ash by Malinda Lo Huntress by Malinda Lo Adaptation by Malinda Lo Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord M The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf Anything by Naguib Mahfouz The Dragon and the Stars edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Snakes and Ladders by Gita Mehta Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger Red Spider White Web
Crowdfunding: The Last Day to Help!
Today’s the last day to donate to my crowdfunding venture and get a bunch of free stuff in the process (free fiction, more free fiction, and amusing ways to torture me). If you can spare a few bucks, please consider sending it my way. You can do that by using the little widget on the side. Further details about perks and all that jazz can be found here. Or you can simply ignore all of that and send donations straight to my Paypal: arconna[at]yahoo[dot]com. I’m enormously grateful to everyone who has donated thus far. You are simply wonderful. Thus far, I’ve handed out a whole bunch of personalized ebooks and given dictatorship powers for the Torture Cinema feature of The Skiffy and Fanty Show to a handful of folks. Pretty much everyone who got an ebook says they love their special alt-hist introduction, which makes me happy indeed. However, I won’t pretend to be enthused by all the crappy films I will have to watch… Thanks to all that have helped by giving or spreading the word. Whatever happens today, I’ll at least be closer to getting a new laptop without having to go further into debt. Now back to your regular programming…