What do you think the books you've read this year say about you, if anything? For the past couple of years I've looked back over the books I've read to see what the books I reach for say about where I am in my own story. I invited a bunch of folks to do the same and some great books popped up. If you're feeling reflective or looking for some new/old reads, check it out. https://elizabethmarro.substack.com/p/what-our-books-reveal-about-us #Books #BookRecs #Reading #Bookwyrm
What Our Books Reveal About Us

A look at 2022 in books

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@[email protected] My book list this year has been comprised almost exclusively of #Indigenous / Black / non-white authors. During the pandemic I'd started looking at how many of the books I'd read over the course of my life had been written by white men and was so dismayed by the imbalance in perspectives and experiences. I decided to try to balance things out a bit and the process has been so rewarding; as a bonus it's made it easier to see whiteness in places where I'd formerly been blind to it.
@siona as I put my reading list together for 2023, I would love to read more fiction and nonfiction by indigenous and non white writers. Of the books you've been reading which would you recommend?

@eg_marro

Oh goodness. So many! A few favorites below:

Fiction:

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, by Tsering Yangzom Lama

An Ordinary Wonder, by Buki Papillon

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, by Akwaeke Emezi

Kindred, by Octavia Butler

Fledgling, by Octavia Butler

The Freedom Artist, Ben Okri

Nonfiction:

White Magic, by Elissa Washuta

Dear Senthuran, by Akwaeke Emezi

Rest is Resistance, by Tricia Hersey

Afropessimism, by Frank B. Wilderson III

@eg_marro

Also in Nonfiction:

Restoring the Kinship Worldview, by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

@siona thank you for all your suggestions! I appreciate it.