Book Rant's 2021 Reading Challenge - hosted by bookrantpodcast

Read a book by a non-Western author
Ouf, it's getting really stuffy in here with all these Western perspectives.
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Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao

Stories of the Sahara

Sanmao

416 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction travel adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Black Tides of Heaven

Tensorate #1

Neon Yang

237 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional fast-paced
What Is Africa to Me?: Fragments of a True-To-Life Autobiography by Maryse Condé

What Is Africa to Me?: Fragments of a True-To-Life Autobiography

Africa List

Maryse Condé

264 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Reclaiming Afrikan. Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Indentities by Zethu Matebeni

Reclaiming Afrikan. Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Indentities

Zethu Matebeni

76 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction art essays graphic novel lgbtqia+ race challenging reflective medium-paced
Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 2 by Kamome Shirahama

Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 2

とんがり帽子のアトリエ / Witch Hat Atelier #2

Kamome Shirahama

187 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy manga adventurous mysterious medium-paced
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became the Sun

The Radiant Emperor Duology #1

Shelley Parker-Chan

414 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

396 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction crime poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Tills vattnet stiger by Maryse Condé

Tills vattnet stiger

Maryse Condé

317 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction reflective medium-paced
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud

Love After Love

Ingrid Persaud

409 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced