Books to Read

If you're looking for something to read, read one or all of the following books. At the very least, buy and then place them in a wonderful pile.

  1. Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame: Friday Black

  2. Alvarado Valdivia, Juan: ¡Cancerlandia!, Ballad of a Slopsucker

  3. Bloch, Stefano: Going All City

  4. Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Wonder Boys

  5. Chang, K-Ming: Bestiary

  6. Chang, Lan Samantha: The Family Chao

  7. Chang, Victoria: Obit

  8. Dandicat, Edwidge: Krik? Krak!

  9. Diaz, Natalie: When My Brother Was an Aztec

  10. Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex

  11. Everett, Percival: Erasure, I Am not Sidney Poitier, The Trees

  12. Fajardo-Anstine, Kali: Sabrina and Corina

  13. Flynn, Nick: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Reenactments

  14. Fung, Pik-Shuen: Ghost Forest

  15. Goenawan, Clarissa: The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida

  16. Gyasi, Yaa: Homegoing, Transcendent Kingdom

  17. Henríquez, Cristina: The Book of Unknown Americans

  18. Jin, Meng: Little Gods

  19. Johnson, Mat: Pym

  20. Kuang, R.F.: Yellowface

  21. Kwon, R.O.: The Incendiaries

  22. Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Lowland, The Namesake

  23. Lavalle, Victor: The Changeling

  24. Laymon, Kiese: Heavy, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

  25. Martinez, Óscar: The Beast

  26. Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon

  27. Nguyen, Viet Thanh: The Sympathizer, The Refugees

  28. Nunez, Sigrid: The Friend

  29. Orange, Tommy: There There

  30. Ozeki, Ruth: A Tale for the Time Being

  31. Packer, ZZ: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

  32. Rocklyn, Zin E.: Flowers for the Sea

  33. Rojas Contreras, Ingrid: Fruit of the Drunken Tree

  34. Silverman, Sarah: The Bedwetter

  35. Smith, Danez: Black Movie, Don’t Call Us Dead

  36. Talty, Morgan: Night of the Living Rez

  37. Thompson-Spire, Nafissa: Heads of the Colored People

  38. Tobar, Hector: The Tattooed Soldier, Our Migrant Souls

  39. Veasna So, Anthony: Afterparties

  40. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five

  41. Vuong, Ocean: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

  42. Wang, Esmé Weijun: The Collected Schizophrenias

  43. Wang, Weike: Chemistry, Joan Is Okay

  44. Ward, Jesmyn: Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing

  45. Washington, Bryan: Lot

  46. White, Tyriek: We Are a Haunting

  47. Whitehead, Colson: The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys

  48. Young, Damon: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

  49. Yu, Charles: Interior Chinatown

  50. Zhang, C. Pam: How Much of These Hills Is Gold

  51. Zhang, Jenny: Sour Heart

Red rose