100 Years of Solitude by García Márquez
A Man Called Ove
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
Americanah (Ngozi-Adichie)
Asymmetry (Halliday)
The Ballad of the Sad Café (McCullers)
Blindness (Saramago)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
Everything I Never Told You (Ng)
The Farming of Bones
Flying Dutchman Amiri Baraka
Free Radio by Rushdie
Fun Home
Garden, Ashes (Kiš)
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin)
The God of Small Things - Roy
Green Grass, Running Water (King)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Atwood
Homegoing - Yaa Gaysi
The House of Broken Angels (Urrea)
House of the Spirits by Allende
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
The Hummingbird’s Daughter (Urrea)
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alavarez
The Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
A Jury of Her Peers- Susan Glaspell
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Kindred (Butler),
The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
The Kite Runner, Khaled Housseini
Labyrinths (Borges)
The Last Ballad - Cash
The Leavers @iamlisako
Life after High School by Oates
Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) @pronounced_ing
Lost Children Archive (Luiselli)
Love Medicine (Erdrich)
Mama Day (Naylor)
Marrow Thieves (Dimaline),
Mean Spirit (Hogan)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Moses Ascending (Selvon),
My Brilliant Friend (Ferrante)
Native Son (Wright)
Never Let Me Go
The Nickel Boys (Whitehead)
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Oryx and Crake (Atwood)
Pachinko (Lee),
Paradise (Morrison)
Passing (Larsen)
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
The People Of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
Persepolis,
Purple Hibiscus (Adichie),
Push - Sapphire (though need to warn about harsh language - very harsh)
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
A Personal Matter. Juan Rulfo,
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Round House (Erdrich),
Salvage the Bones (Ward)
Signs Preceding the End of the World. (Herrera)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by @jesmimi
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Southernmost @silasdhouse
Sympathizer (Nguyen)
There There @thommyorange
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Martyred, Richard Kim
Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Under The Feet of Jesus (Viramontes)
Waiting (Ha Jin),
Washington Black (Esi Edugyan)
White Teeth
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)
Wild Swans
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Written on the Body
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25604513)
More resources:
Authors to check out:
Kenzaburo Oë,
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo &
the much-talked about but rarely taught Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Adichie
Hurston
Urrea
Short Stories:
I also like the collection of short stories by Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
Krik? Krak! By Edwidge Danticat
Short story: "The Match" by Colson Whitehead The New Yorker April 1st, 2019
short story: James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
Julio Cortázar’s “The Night Face Up” or “The Continuity of Parks”
“The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman” by Zitkala-Sa
Toni Morrison
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/sweetness-2.
Cathedral-Raymond Carver
https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Carver,%2
[a]I hear wonderful things about this online
[b]I teach this - so good!