I saw this over at A Work in Progress and thought I'd give it a whirl.
Name the last book by a female author that you've read.
Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage which I just finished. It is the book we are discussing at one of my reading groups this week. This was an easy question though because I regularly read books by women. I went back and looked and since the beginning of the year I've read 17 books by female authors.
Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you've read.
Well, that would also be Babylon Sisters. That seemed almost too easy. So I went back to look (because I suspect I don't read many African American authors) and that was the only book by an African or African-American author that I've read since Cry the Beloved Country by South African writer Alan Paton. I read that in 2007.
Name one from a Latino/a author.
I think I have to go back to Zorro by Isabel Allende, which I read back in 2007. I've have her book Ines of my Soul sitting in my TBR pile of two years now.
How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?
My reading list has been full of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent for the last 2 years. The last would be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini. There was also Bookseller of Kabul, The God of Small Things, The Impressionist, The Interpreter, The Inheritance of Loss, Saving Fish from Drowing, The Namesake. I actually was getting a bit tired of Asian based novels and I notice that I haven't read many in the last 6 months except for A Thousand Splendid Suns.
What about a GLBT writer?
At first I was going to say that, to my knowledge, I had read none - but then I thought maybe that was just my ignorance showing. Especially as I read Danielle's answers at AWIP and I saw Sarah Waters in answer to that category and I remember I read her Night Watch a couple of years ago and liked it. So I googled GLBT authors and found the wikipedia list. The last book I read by anyone on that list (excepting poets) was Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out which I read about 11 months ago.
Why not name an Israeli/Arab/Turk/Persian writer, if you're feeling lucky?
I'm drawing a blank on this one.
Any other "marginalized" authors you've read lately?
Nope.
