Writers of Color Book Club discussion

What would you like the theme for October to be? Nominations close at Midnight EST on Thursday, September 10, 2015.

I nominate a novel written by a Native American author.

I nominate horror/creepy reads

Louise wrote: "I nominate horror/creepy reads" I second horror/creepy reads. How perfect for Halloween!

Oh snaps, I forgot all about Halloween.

The theme for October is HORROR/CREEPY reads. We will be nominating books up until Midnight EST on Thursday, September 17, 2015.

Not horror but definitely disturbing, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi.

Kay wrote: "Not horror but definitely disturbing, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi."

Ah! I almost nominated her other book, The Icarus Girl, since Goodreads labels that one as horror. White Is For Witching is on my TBR too though.

Does anyone else get the impression that WOC are very underrepresented in this genre? I can't find anything available in my local library. Anyway, I nominate Fledgling by Octavia E Butler.

Louise wrote: "Does anyone else get the impression that WOC are very underrepresented in this genre? I can't find anything available in my local library. Anyway, I nominate Fledgling by Octavia E Butler."

Totally agree. Here is something I found, http://sumikosaulson.com/2013/02/12/2...

Louise wrote: "Does anyone else get the impression that WOC are very underrepresented in this genre? I can't find anything available in my local library. Anyway, I nominate Fledgling by Octavia E Butler."

Yep! I looked all over for a list of WOC in different minority cultures and came up with just a few. The horror genre got lumped with a Sci-fi in the list I found. Thank you for nominating a book though! Butler was on all the list for African-American writers of color that I found so she's a bonafide choice.

Kay wrote: "Louise wrote: "Does anyone else get the impression that WOC are very underrepresented in this genre? I can't find anything available in my local library. Anyway, I nominate Fledgling by Octavia E B..."

Thanks for the list!

I nominate Ceremony by Leslie Marmo Silko. I thought I'd throw in another ethnicity to shake our nominations up. This book is based around the "horrors" of war so it sort of fits the theme. The main character is going through a range of Native American ceremonies to get over his PTSD & help absolve his guilt & in the process he goes further down the rabbit hole of trauma.

I was thinking of nominating one of Nnedi Okorafor's books. I wouldn't classify Who Fears Death or Lagoon as horror, but I hear they are creepy. Thoughts?

nomadreader (Carrie D-L) wrote: "I was thinking of nominating one of Nnedi Okorafor's books. I wouldn't classify Who Fears Death or Lagoon as horror, but I hear they are creepy. Thoug..."

That's what I got from the synopsis. Who Fears Death? was my original nomination before changing to Ceremony since it sounded sort of creep-ish. We've all seem to basically come to the conclusion that WOC are a bit hard to find in the horror/creepy genre so as long as it's a bit scary it's in unless you legit hit upon a book classified as horror by some stroke of research. Also, Kay gave a list too.

I nominate The Good House by Tananarive Due

This "horror" under the traditional definition.