I did a bad job of keeping track of what I read in 2015. So here is my attempt again to keep track for 2016. In particular, I am trying to read more by authors of color, or at least have these writers make up the majority of my reading. For work, it’s more difficult to keep to that criteria, but I am trying to seek out under-represented voices whenever I can.

Fiction:

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang

 

Poetry:

• The Woman Who Fell From the Sky by Joy Harjo
• Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
• Unbearable Splendor – Sun Yung Shin

 

Non-fiction:

• Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences and Racial Exceptionalism by Kim Park Nelson
• A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota edited by Sun Yung Shin
• Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi
• Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare by Marian Harris
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• VITAL: A Torch For Your Social Justice Journey by Kyle C. and Aerial A. Ashlee
• Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• The Slow Professor : Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barb Seeber
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work by Cal Newport