I was surfing through DW and ended up finding this journal entry randomly. I'm actually really into POC authors so I thought I'd share my list(a lot of them are slice of life books though):
Authors Toni Morrison: A lot of her works focus on slavery and women.
Amy Tan: Her works focus on the mother-daughter experience and being a Chinese-American.
Shaun Tan: He writes picture books but they're very heavy reading. Has a lot of surrealist themes in it. I recommend The Arrival which has no words in it but gives a very real depiction on the immigrant experience.
Kazuo Ishiguro: I don't know if you were looking for POC authors or stories revolving around being a POC. Kazuo was born in Japan but lived his life in England. I recommend Never Let Me Go it's a weird fusion of sci-fi and slice of life. If you're looking for his works set in Japan, try Artist of the Floating World. He also released a book called: The Buried Giant which has a lot of fantasy elements (or so I've been reading).
Haruki Murakami: He's a well-known Japanese author, his works tend to be fantasy or very surreal, a bit like Kurt Vonnegut.
Books
The Tale of Genji: The first major novel to come out of Japan. A Japanese classic, much like Homer's Iliad.
One Thousand and One Nights: A collection of old Persian Folktales, a bit like Hans Christen Andersen fairy tales.
Book of Negroes(it also goes by Someone knows my name) by Lawrence Hill: It's a heartbreaking story of a woman who originally lived in Africa but was taken to the US and made a slave.
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje: Michael Ondaatje is one of the few authors that can pull off purple prose properly. I loved Divisadero, which covers multiple viewpoints. It's basically about a family torn apart because of one event that happens and how the characters cope.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fisfight in heaven by Sherman Alexie: It's a collection of short stories but it portrays life in an Indian Reservation and all the hardship and discrimination that goes on in there.
Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul: A slice of life novel dealing with people living on Miguel Street, set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A poignant love story of a man trying to win his childhood love interest after being split apart.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: It's a really beautiful story about two women married to the same man (polygamy) and basically their bond with each other and the hardships they go through living in Afghanistan when the Taliban was in control.
Manga (You mentioned you liked comics so I thought you wouldn't mind checking out Japanese comics?)
CLAMP: An all-girl manga team. Their works are well-known in Japan. I'd recommend Cardcaptor Sakura, it's one of their classics.
Bunny Drop (Usagi Drop): A slice of life story focusing on an older man raising a very young girl as his daughter. It has a lot of Japanese traditions and just what parents and guardians go through in real life Japan. It gets a little weird near the ending but the first few volumes were sweet.
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I was surfing through DW and ended up finding this journal entry randomly. I'm actually really into POC authors so I thought I'd share my list(a lot of them are slice of life books though):
Authors
Toni Morrison: A lot of her works focus on slavery and women.
Amy Tan: Her works focus on the mother-daughter experience and being a Chinese-American.
Shaun Tan: He writes picture books but they're very heavy reading. Has a lot of surrealist themes in it. I recommend The Arrival which has no words in it but gives a very real depiction on the immigrant experience.
Kazuo Ishiguro: I don't know if you were looking for POC authors or stories revolving around being a POC. Kazuo was born in Japan but lived his life in England. I recommend Never Let Me Go it's a weird fusion of sci-fi and slice of life. If you're looking for his works set in Japan, try Artist of the Floating World. He also released a book called: The Buried Giant which has a lot of fantasy elements (or so I've been reading).
Haruki Murakami: He's a well-known Japanese author, his works tend to be fantasy or very surreal, a bit like Kurt Vonnegut.
Books
The Tale of Genji: The first major novel to come out of Japan. A Japanese classic, much like Homer's Iliad.
One Thousand and One Nights: A collection of old Persian Folktales, a bit like Hans Christen Andersen fairy tales.
Book of Negroes(it also goes by Someone knows my name) by Lawrence Hill: It's a heartbreaking story of a woman who originally lived in Africa but was taken to the US and made a slave.
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje: Michael Ondaatje is one of the few authors that can pull off purple prose properly. I loved Divisadero, which covers multiple viewpoints. It's basically about a family torn apart because of one event that happens and how the characters cope.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fisfight in heaven by Sherman Alexie: It's a collection of short stories but it portrays life in an Indian Reservation and all the hardship and discrimination that goes on in there.
Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul: A slice of life novel dealing with people living on Miguel Street, set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A poignant love story of a man trying to win his childhood love interest after being split apart.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: It's a really beautiful story about two women married to the same man (polygamy) and basically their bond with each other and the hardships they go through living in Afghanistan when the Taliban was in control.
Manga
(You mentioned you liked comics so I thought you wouldn't mind checking out Japanese comics?)
CLAMP: An all-girl manga team. Their works are well-known in Japan. I'd recommend Cardcaptor Sakura, it's one of their classics.
Bunny Drop (Usagi Drop): A slice of life story focusing on an older man raising a very young girl as his daughter. It has a lot of Japanese traditions and just what parents and guardians go through in real life Japan. It gets a little weird near the ending but the first few volumes were sweet.