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I have never considered the author's race when acquiring a book, with very very very few exceptions. In fact, in the vast majority of cases I never was aware of their race beyond what cultural background flavored their writing, which of course I wasn't aware of until after I had read the book.
Long ago, when reading The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, I wasn't aware that Alexandre Dumas père was black, at least by the common standards of the society of my youth. |
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I’d like to request that people stay on topic, i.e., limit their comments to recommendations or discussions of black authors and books written by then. Thanks.
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Ben Okri is okay. He's Nigerian, but grew up in the UK. He's also black. A bit too abstract in general for me, but The Famished Road was good and deserved to win the Booker. He's abstract like Marquez.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Okri I like his poetry more. Some of African Elegy is great. Quote:
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Then there was me, downloading books from Gutenberg by James Baldwin,
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1982 cluelessly thinking that it was this James Baldwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin |
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Zora Neale Hurston. Ta-nehisi Coates.
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Pushkin wrote a story inspired by his great-grandfather PETER THE GREAT'S NEGRO. |
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Hildea, though this book is non-fiction, I found it a very powerful book to read: Why I’m no longer talking to White People about Race by UK author Reni Eddo-Lodge.
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I wasn’t as fond of her later memoirs, but Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is wonderful.
I haven’t read her more famous novels yet, but I greatly enjoyed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s first novel, Purple Hibiscus. |
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Leonard Pitts is an excellent writer. I particularly recommend Forward From this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009 and Freeman.
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Well worth reading and obviously public domain, is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, a fugitive slave.
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I recall reading "Knock on Any Door", and its sequel, many years ago, and until recently I had no idea Motley was black. Maybe an American reader might have spotted it, but I certainly didn't.
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I recently read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. His father was white and his mother was black, and he was born in South Africa during apartheid. Highly recommended.
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I'm not a huge audio fan but that's also a recommended audiobook - his voice is great with it. The ending had one of the most beautiful, personal miracle stories I've read. I agree with the recommendation.
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This thread has made me recall a wonderful mystery series by Barbara Neely that I’d like to revisit. The Blanche White novels are about a black domestic worker and were described by Essence magazine as the first black woman detective written by a black woman. I read these a long time ago and they’ve stuck with me, and I see they’re now available as ebooks. Highly recommended.
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