Welcome to In Reading Color, a space where we focus on literature by and about people of color.
How’s life/reading been going? I just made a bit of a lifestyle change this past weekend. I’m not usually one to have a list of hard and fast requirements for a partner, but I’ve since changed that in order to have “will let me run it up in Barnes & Noble” on the list. It may be the only thing on the list, but it’s there now.
Here are just a few of March’s new releases so you can run it up this week!
Children’s
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The Aquanaut by Dan Santat
Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly
New from Here by Kelly Yang
Caprice by Coe Booth
YA
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
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Crimson Reign by Amélie Wen Zhao
Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta
The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra
A Thousand Steps Into Night by Traci Chee
LakeLore by Anna-Marie McLemore
Adult
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia. Bonus: here’s a great article that discusses the book
Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America by Deepa Purushothaman
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Good Intentions by Kasim Ali
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha LaPointe
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
Don’t forget you can get three free audiobooks at Audiobooks.com with a free trial!
News ‘n’ Things
- Beyonce sent flowers when Warsan Shire’s children were born. I’m not jealous. Not at all.
- Dystopian Novel Authors Talk About the Current State of the World for Teen Vogue
- Memoirs that look at the importance of friends and family members of people experiencing mental illness
- If you like Hayao Miyazaki, here are some books for you
- Here is a conversation with Hanya Yanagihara hosted by Roxane Gay for her Audacious Reads Bookclub. This month’s book is How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
- Here are the PEN/Faulkner Award finalists
- Here are some great short story collections by Asian authors
- The Audie Awards have been announced
Thanks for reading; it’s been cute! If you want to reach out and connect, email me at erica@riotnewmedia.com or tweet at me @erica_eze_. You can find me on the Hey YA podcast with the fab Tirzah Price, as well as in the In The Club newsletter.
Until next time,
-E