She’s also still the best-selling author of all time. I first read Sayaka Murata’s fiction in Granta and thought it hilarious, strange, and mesmerizing; this novel promises to be no less. Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. published 1998, avg rating 3.78 — 19,364 ratings — In order to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace, it is important that each person listens to and tries to empathize with the experiences of others from different backgrounds. 2,644 ratings — In The Beekeeper, poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail gives the accounts of Iraqi women who escaped Daesh (ISIS), and of the beekeeper who helped them get away. This collection brings together Jerkins’s writing about living as a black woman in the U.S., with reflections on topics ranging from Sailor Moon to Rachel Dolezal.
“I have felt unseen my entire life,” says LaTanya McQueen, and she notes that this might be why she became obsessed with finding out more — and writing — about a storied ancestor, once a slave, who had a relationship with a white man. Ben Marcus says Halsey Street is “a poignant, moving book, written with deep empathy and sophistication.”. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. 27,409 ratings —

If we can’t imagine one another, how will we get through these next few years? published 2013, avg rating 4.25 — 5,531 ratings — We’re starting with the First Lady of Mystery. Still, since this is a forward-looking list, a joyful celebration of what’s to come, I want to glance past him. They post their work online–poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine’s response to the racial microaggressions she experiences–and soon they go viral. If you take a fantasy sci-fi tale about a warrior princess, … 17,641 ratings — Jasmin Darznik’s novel is inspired by the poetry, letters, and interviews that Farrokhzad left behind. Once I’d collected a few 2017 titles, I thought I’d tell others about what I’d discovered. 6,135 ratings — Education plays a pivotal role in the pursuit for a more diverse and inclusive workplace, and books can be a very effective and instrumental way to learn more about groups that are seemingly different from your own. Grace Talusan makes use of immigration papers, legal certificates, and medical test results in her memoir about immigration, trauma, and illness. Site designed in collaboration with CMYK. published 1995, avg rating 3.87 — 144,526 ratings — Error rating book.

24,872 ratings — Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, is published by Riverhead, and it is being translated into six languages. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. published 2012, avg rating 4.34 — I mean, honestly, what better way to start 2018 than by reading the memoir of Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele? What We Were Promised tracks a family that moves from rural China to America then back to China, this time to a luxury high-rise in Shanghai. One study demonstrated that individuals who read a narrative about an Arab woman were less biased towards Arabs following the reading. Enjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter on Mondays, absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading on Wednesdays, and a roundup of our best work of the week on Fridays. I spend my free time getting lost in a good audiobook and perfecting my Jollof rice recipe. Hopefully you want to add to your reading list, if they’re not there already! 52,252 ratings — (£12.99, Little Brown Books for Young Readers) Recommended age: 6-10 years With a much-needed exploration of significant Black men – mainly African-American – in history, Little Leaders provides the reader with a historical overview of inventors, artists, civil rights leaders, musicians and many more. The winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, My Old Faithful is a linked collection about a Chinese family that immigrates to the United States. 256,323 ratings — One report, for example, found that including LGBT issues in the school curriculum lessened bias against this population. For months, I’ve been anticipating this anthology, which brings together Asian diasporic writers as wide-ranging, and as wonderful, as Mia Alvar, Alexander Chee, Karissa Chen, Kimiko Hahn, Alice Sola Kim, Chang-Rae Lee, T. Kira Madden, Jennifer Tseng, Esmé Weijun Wang, and still others. 16,319 ratings — published 2003, avg rating 3.65 — Fruit of the Drunken Tree takes place in 1990s Colombia, and depicts a privileged seven-year-old girl and her family’s maid. published 2005, avg rating 3.97 — 5,286 ratings — Let’s read more broadly; let’s try inhabiting one another’s wildly varied, entirely human points of view. published 2012, avg rating 4.25 — I was utterly enthralled by this book, an unsettling, inventive debut novel about a girl and her father in an island commune. In honor of our next president, the 46th—whoever she, he, or they might be—I picked 46 splendid novels, memoirs, anthologies, and collections I’m anticipating. published 2015, avg rating 3.74 — 3,880 ratings — I am the founder of BWG Business. published 2018, avg rating 4.44 — published 2010, avg rating 3.61 — 3,988 ratings — published 2012, avg rating 4.17 — Edited by Electric Lit contributing editor Jennifer Baker, the book includes Mia Alvar, Alexander Chee, Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, Hasanthika Sirisena, Brandon Taylor, and other luminaries. I tried, I really did, to avoid mentioning our current president, but as wicked tyrants tend to do, he poisons every day. Now 25, she sits in a Paris fertility clinic as she’s visited — besieged — by memories of her family.

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Now, for the first time, she’s gathered her nonfiction in one book, Feel Free. Below is a list of books that can serve as a great aid to both employees and organizational leaders who want to learn more and understand the cultural experiences of different groups.

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(Little Leaders: Exceptional Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison is also available. published 2014, avg rating 4.13 —

One of the best ways to better understand the experiences of marginalized and underrepresented groups is through storytelling. 62,634 ratings —

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3,688 ratings — published 2001, avg rating 3.95 — She is known best for penning Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence. From a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree comes this picaresque about an Iranian American bibliophile, freshly orphaned, traveling across Spain. )Each profile comes …
725,218 ratings — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. published 1999, avg rating 4.07 — This year’s National Book Award ten-book fiction longlist featured six titles written by women of color; three out of five 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions finalists were women of color; and so on. Support our mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.