18 Crime Fiction Novels by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle
• The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, translated by Jeremy Tiang
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• If I Should Die by Grace F. Edwards
• Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey
• The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
• Malice by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith
• A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
• IQ by Joe Ide
• Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder
• The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
• Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
• Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
• Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon
• The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross
• Humane by Anna Marie Sewell