Literary Fiction by People of Color discussion

What books are you hoping to receive as a gift or buy for yourself during this holiday season? I have a long list - I hope that Santa is reading this!

32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

Till You Hear from Me by Pearl Cleage

Substitute Me by Lori L. Tharps

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

and

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin.

What about you?

How about:

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Perceval Everett

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela

The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris ?

(mostly) all I want for Christmas...

*The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected writings- James Baldwin

*The Penguin Guide to Jazz --9th Edition

*Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgment (Poems) -- Nikki Giovanni

*Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original - Robin Kelley

* Half-Past Autumn: A Retrospective (Photographs) & A Choice of Weapons (autobiography) by Gordon Parks

*The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson

*Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Music of the Black Diaspora) - Amiri Baraka

Just got Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Just finished Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. I think my next one will be The Interpreter: A Novel by Suki Kim.

@Leah: Do you think Jessica Hagedorn's "Dogeaters" would be a good selection for LFPOC?

I only wanted two books: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

Good choices, Maegen!

I know that the holidays are long, long, long gone, but I would have loved to have gotten my hands on a copy of "The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelo"--my favorite set of autobiographies in the entire world--and a nice second choice would have been a copy of "Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange!

Better luck next year...

@Mack I just got a copy of Some Sing, Some Cry. She's coming to Chicago in a couple of weeks to speak at one of the local universities. I'm hoping to make out to see her.

Awesome! What a treat. I've been a devoted fan since I read "Betsey Brown" some time ago (which I got my hands on BEFORE I read "For Colored Girls..." believe it or not!) Keep us posted should you happen to make it out. :)

Will do and btw: Betsey Brown is one of my favorite books.