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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoHi friends, I’m looking for a lesbian author of color, who has written fiction preferably. Does anyone have any recommendations? It’s for my book club, trying to diversify it a bit.
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Felicia Luna Lemus (San Francisco!), Jewelle Gomez (vampires!), Mayra Lazara Dole (Miami! Coming Out!), Malinda Lo (fantasy without dragons!) and more listed here: http://zahrawithaz.livejournal.com/12471.html
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Seconding the Jewelle Gomez and Malinda Lo recs! If I recall correctly, Octavia Butler was a lesbian (but even if I’m wrong, you should read her because she is awesome!). I don’t know if Nalo Hopkinson, who I am loving a lot right now, is a lesbian, but her book “The Salt Roads” does have significant lesbian content. One of the stories in…[Read more]
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thanks guys! That will help a lot. I just suggested last night that next year we do all minority authors, and got treated with blank stares :( so my picks are going to be double minorities if I can help it :)
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Check out Achy Obejas!
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mayra lazara dole, who wrote “down to the bone,” is kinda awesome.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoSo everyone seems to have read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, but has anyone read The Little Friend? It has to be my favourite book. And I’m a person who can never choose faves.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoI am on book 3 of the Hunger Games trilogy. It’s sooo good. I can’t wait for the movie.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoJust read Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi. I think I really needed to read that book.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just finished reading “The History of White People” by Nell Irvin Painter (I think I saw it recommended on here) and it was really interesting. I’m working on “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme” now and really enjoying it so far.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI love Nalo Hopkinson! She’s a scifi writer whose stories are based in Caribbean culture, which is an element I really haven’t seen incorporated into scifi before. I read her first book ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’ and was really excited about it. So I went out and found another of her books, ‘Midnight Robber,’ and I just started it today. So…[Read more]
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I think I need to read these all. (Assuming I can even find them here in the Antipodes :P)
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If you can find them, you should definitely give them a try! Now that I’m thinking about it, I vaguely recall reading and liking another one of her books several years ago. It was called something like “The Salt Roads” or maybe just “Salt Roads” and it had time travel. So she’s got something for any scifi preference!
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I read Brown Girl in the Ring! I’d forgotten it, I ‘m going to have to find some other stuff by her, because it was an AWESOME book.
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