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Following a blog post by Anjulie Te Pohe (https://anjulietepohe.com/) on the erasure faced by Pacific Islanders in the book community and finding that current lists of the Pacific Islands are dominated by white authors, I decided to start this list to archive, celebrate and make more readily available PI authors and their works.
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Avery 651 books
65 friends
Jacob 1565 books
27 friends
Joanna 296 books
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Cindy III 10571 books
200 friends
Ming 2165 books
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Ashley 1070 books
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Jacklynn 463 books
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Maka 0 books
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message 1: by Romney (new)

Romney Tabara Hi I am an new author from Papua New Guinea can I join this group and add my book too, Romney


message 2: by NancyJ (new)

NancyJ I think you can add it yourself by going to "add books to this list"


message 3: by Tandri Reviews (new)

Tandri Reviews Alan Brennert is not a Pacific Islander and has no such ancestry (Alan mentions this in the question part of his Goodreads page) so shouldn't be on this list.


message 4: by Bean (new)

Bean Hanya Yanagihara is not Pacific Islander, she's East Asian.


Littlebookterror I deleted both Yanigahara and Brennert from the list.


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