Around the Year in 52 Books is a Goodreads group that creates a user-generated reading challenge each year. This listopia is dedicated to one of our 2021 prompts.

Prompt: A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author

New-to-you is obviously going to be relative to everyone, so feel free to add books you want to read as well as books you'd recommend for others.

Of note: BIPOC means Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. This includes basically any authors who are not white.

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508 books · 141 voters · list created July 18th, 2020 by Emily Bourque (votes) .
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message 1: by TYJC (new)

TYJC I am very eager to read books of people by color. However, there are white indigenous cultures too, so I don't see why white authors would have to be eliminated as a possibility. For example, the Adyghe peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Israel. Any thoughts?


message 2: by Emily (new)

Emily Bourque Nurikospecial wrote: "I am very eager to read books of people by color. However, there are white indigenous cultures too, so I don't see why white authors would have to be eliminated as a possibility. For example, the A..."

The I in BIPOC stands for indigenous, so I would think any authors of indigenous descent would count.


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