Hi, I'm new here, but I've done some looking and have been unable to find a thread about books with POC as the protag. I could have missed it, but...
I experience this same problem whenever I walk into Barnes and Noble. It could be because I live in Montana, but maybe not.
Is there a list here of books with POC as the protag?
If not, I'm confident that this group knows some great stories that I've never heard of.
Could we devote a few moments, share our resources, make a list and make it a sticky?
While I am really only looking for the kind of books I like to read, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Name of the Wind, Dresden Files(Mostly YA/MG Fantasy), this could be an inclusive list with authors like Walter Dean Myers, Octavia Butler, and Stafford Battle.(Just to name a few)
I know these types of books exist, I just have a hard time finding them and while I no longer wish to read thug books, overcoming racism books, POC token books, minority sidekick only books, black buffoon books, Asian martial artists stories, scifi Africa, blacks with drug problems, angry black man, drug dealer, books where the characters use the words 'brotha, sistah, homeboy', slave stories, mammy, maid, or house keeper stories, etc...................... if you like these stories I don't mean to offend. Read what you will.
Such a list would be helpful to me, and maybe others as well.
Thanks in advance.
I'll even start it with:
1. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
2. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan.
I experience this same problem whenever I walk into Barnes and Noble. It could be because I live in Montana, but maybe not.
Is there a list here of books with POC as the protag?
If not, I'm confident that this group knows some great stories that I've never heard of.
Could we devote a few moments, share our resources, make a list and make it a sticky?
While I am really only looking for the kind of books I like to read, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Name of the Wind, Dresden Files(Mostly YA/MG Fantasy), this could be an inclusive list with authors like Walter Dean Myers, Octavia Butler, and Stafford Battle.(Just to name a few)
I know these types of books exist, I just have a hard time finding them and while I no longer wish to read thug books, overcoming racism books, POC token books, minority sidekick only books, black buffoon books, Asian martial artists stories, scifi Africa, blacks with drug problems, angry black man, drug dealer, books where the characters use the words 'brotha, sistah, homeboy', slave stories, mammy, maid, or house keeper stories, etc...................... if you like these stories I don't mean to offend. Read what you will.
Such a list would be helpful to me, and maybe others as well.
Thanks in advance.
I'll even start it with:
1. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
2. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan.
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