A Novel Alliance 2024 Reading Challenge - hosted by sarshu01

A book by a person of colour with food as a central theme
As an extra: try out a recipe from or inspired by the book
All books added
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

Crystal Wilkinson

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history memoir race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon

294 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography food and drink memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

Dawn

Xenogenesis #1

Octavia E. Butler

308 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction feminism science fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

9 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional reflective medium-paced
Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma

Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance

Nisha Sharma

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction romance young adult funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

Kwame Alexander

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
Death by Bubble Tea by Jennifer J. Chow

Death by Bubble Tea

LA Night Market #1

Jennifer J. Chow

291 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction mystery lighthearted mysterious slow-paced
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

Homicide and Halo-Halo

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #2

Mia P. Manansala

279 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles

Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

Nina Mingya Powles

85 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays food and drink memoir informative reflective medium-paced
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Arsenic and Adobo

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1

Mia P. Manansala

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced