170,686 ratings — Porochista Khakpour’s previous books, The Last Illusion and Sons and Other Flammable Objects, were memorably superb. published 2012, avg rating 3.85 — Poignant Song is a biography of Grammy-nominated Lakshmi Shankar, a prominent Hindustani classical music singer who collaborated with Western artists like George Harrison of The Beatles. published 1999, avg rating 4.07 — I spend my free time getting lost in a good audiobook and perfecting my Jollof rice recipe. Kelly Link says “the stories here are dazzling, wise, wicked, and tender,” and that the book’s a “knockout.”.
While Terese Mailhot was in the hospital, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, she started writing in a notebook. Her writing’s been compared to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s, Roxane Gay’s, and Jessica Valenti’s. In The Beekeeper, poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail gives the accounts of Iraqi women who escaped Daesh (ISIS), and of the beekeeper who helped them get away. published 1995, avg rating 3.87 — 6,914 ratings — Mikhail herself left Baghdad for the U.S. in the 1990s. If that editor had read more widely in the first place, he might previously have recognized how limiting his stereotypes might be, and he could have broken free of the rigid confines of his own narrow mind. I first read Sayaka Murata’s fiction in Granta and thought it hilarious, strange, and mesmerizing; this novel promises to be no less. published 1959, avg rating 4.07 —
published 2005, avg rating 4.00 — Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. These writers are here, their 2018 books are coming, and look how glorious.
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332,636 ratings — Maggie Shipstead, for one, calls The Ensemble “a wise and powerful novel about love, life, and music”: “I didn’t want it to end,” she says. 1,608 ratings — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. They post their work online–poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine’s response to the racial microaggressions she experiences–and soon they go viral.
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published 2016, avg rating 4.17 — If you take a fantasy sci-fi tale about a warrior princess, … One day, an ivory bracelet goes missing, a mystery that exacerbates existing interfamilial tensions.
Below is a list of a few cozy mystery authors who I feel best encapsulate what a cozy mystery is. It was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Education plays a pivotal role in the pursuit for a more diverse and inclusive workplace, and books can be a very effective and instrumental way to learn more about groups that are seemingly different from your own.
16,319 ratings — published 2009, avg rating 4.14 — (Little Leaders: Exceptional Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison is also available. "While the magical element is new in Ward’s fiction, her … Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. 96,084 ratings — published 2011, avg rating 3.88 — Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009. published 2008, avg rating 3.98 — published 2001, avg rating 3.95 — It’s about a woman who goes to a wedding with a man she meets in an elevator, and Roxane Gay says it’s a “charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel.”.
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published 2003, avg rating 3.65 — I know I’m hardly the only reader who’s been awaiting Porochista’s third book and first memoir, a chronicle of her experience of late-stage Lyme disease. Edited by Electric Lit contributing editor Jennifer Baker, the book includes Mia Alvar, Alexander Chee, Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, Hasanthika Sirisena, Brandon Taylor, and other luminaries.
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670 ratings — Kim Fu’s extraordinary first book, For Today I Am a Boy, received the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
In Naima Coster’s first novel, a mother who’s abandoned her family gets back in touch with her daughter, asking for forgiveness. published 2019, avg rating 4.13 — The winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, My Old Faithful is a linked collection about a Chinese family that immigrates to the United States. Now 25, she sits in a Paris fertility clinic as she’s visited — besieged — by memories of her family.
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In this novel, Natalia Sylvester’s second, a woman’s father-in-law comes back from the dead to try to redeem himself with his unforgiving family. 2,140 ratings —
Once I’d collected a few 2017 titles, I thought I’d tell others about what I’d discovered. 6,135 ratings —
It’s a vital, captivating story of who Khan-Cullors and bandele are, as well as of how the movement was founded. Cristina Henríquez says the book is infused with “extraordinary spirit and life.”. Personalize your subscription preferences here. published 2012, avg rating 3.74 —
It’s always an event when there’s new writing from Tayari Jones, but her forthcoming novel, about a just-married husband sentenced to prison for twelve years, is, according to Edwidge Danticat, “an exquisite, timely, and powerful novel that feels both urgent and indispensable.” Jones, says Michael Chabon, “has found a new level of artistry and power” in An American Marriage. I help create strategies for more diversity, equity, and inclusion. published 2015, avg rating 3.74 — published 2012, avg rating 4.17 — Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission–they’re sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women’s Rights Club.
She also had a few … All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. 249 ratings —
583,702 ratings — It’s the first time the fiction prize has been conferred twice upon any black person or woman—thereby formally, prize-wise, placing Ward in the company of William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.
As drug-war violence escalates in Bogotá, the two girls draw close in what Patricia Engel calls a “heart-stopping portrait of the intimacy of violence.”. As it so happens, I’m Asian; I’m publishing my debut novel this summer, and my characters, much like me, don’t spend any time contemplating their slanted eyes. published 2010, avg rating 3.61 —
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This is Akwaeke Emezi’s debut, but, as Taiye Selasi says, “she is an old―an ancient―storyteller: thrillingly at home in the tradition of griots, poets, seers and seekers.” Freshwater follows a Nigerian woman with a fractured self whose multiple identities take turns narrating the novel.
"Not only was it the first time I realized I was not … Heart Berries comes out of that notebook, and it’s a memoir in essays that, Lidia Yuknavitch says, is “shot through with funny angry beautiful brutal truths.”. 2,644 ratings — published 1998, avg rating 3.78 — 'Given' Nandi Taylor. Studies indicate that fictional stories that include diverse depictions of characters can increase empathy and reduce prejudice towards these groups. published 2005, avg rating 3.97 — Nicole Dennis-Benn calls this memoir a “brilliant account of gender inequality and the burdens we bear as women in the Caribbean.” Secrets We Kept is about Krystal Sital’s grandmother’s life as a widow, and the complicated freedom she found after her husband’s death. Peter Ho Davies praises the novel, saying that Lillian Li “conjures the ‘eco-system’ of this workplace with insider acuity and renders her bustling, hustling clan of waiters, hostesses, cooks, and managers with brilliant feeling.”. 6,273 ratings — I’d been looking for upcoming books by women of color — to review, as well as to read — and I had such trouble finding them that it felt like hunting for unicorns. I’ve heard it argued that it’s been a banner year for books by women of color already: there’s Jesmyn Ward’s 2017 National Book Award, for one.
I mean, honestly, what better way to start 2018 than by reading the memoir of Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele? 230,798 ratings —
published 2012, avg rating 4.28 — published 2012, avg rating 4.34 — What We Were Promised tracks a family that moves from rural China to America then back to China, this time to a luxury high-rise in Shanghai. With one of the more eye-catching titles around, Number One Chinese Restaurant is centered upon the workers in a Maryland Chinese restaurant. The winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction, The Body Papers is timely and compelling.