While this list is not exhaustive or exclusive, it is wide ranging in audience. The goal of reaching out to those who can’t see themselves in a story is to gain more diverse perspectives. Literature is largely related to fiction, but we should view it (and the writers of it) as something concrete. People of color’s experiences are part of the human experience, and only when that is realized in our art forms can those identities can be realized in the West.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
White Teeth, Zaddie Smith
After Dark, Haruki Murakami
Love Poems, Pablo Neruda
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed
Another Country, James Baldwin
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Foreign Soil, Maxine Beneba Clarke
Open City,Teju Cole
Saree, Su Dharmapala
Manhattan Dreaming, Anita Heiss
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