22 Classics 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.

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdich
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa