Right, so as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, as I identify as pansexual...though to be honest, it might be more demisexual with homoerotic tendencies...but whatever. The only thing that tends to be straight at any given point is my hair, and as of late that's required too much effort and my straightener is broken anyway.
Part of my goal for reading this year is to read more books that involve persons of color either as a main character or author. I also want to read more books that focus on the LGBTQ+ community. So, in my research, I found a couple of really good lists that I'm going to pick from as I can get the books in my hands, and see what my local library has in the way of these authors.
This list is filled with an abundance of authors that I now want to delve into their works and learn more about them and the worlds they have created. This list will probably be one of my go-to's for this coming year because I absolutely am enthralled by some of these books and their descriptions...and I'm a sucker for a good cover too and some of these have some awesome covers.
Okay, for serious - I really need to read more books with a POC Protagonist, because at this point in time I cannot actually think of one book that comes to mind that I've read that has a POC protagonist in it. Though I am rather fond of Maya Angelou's poetry, that is not quite the same thing that I'm after with reading some of the books on this list. Must get my hands on them this year! Definitely saving all these lists in my Pocket so I can refer to them when it is time to grab some new books.
Honestly, this was one of the most eye-opening searches that I did for this particular blog post. I also had my local library's website open and was looking for some of these authors, and the one that I found was Audre Lorde at least for the moment anyway. I will be looking for more a bit more throughout the year. I put in a request for a book of Audre Lorde's poetry, and I'm greatly looking forward to reading some of it because I'm absolutely in love with poetry and I do need to read some more.
Anyway, I am also open to a lot more recommendations than are on this list. So if you have any, please leave them in the comments below and share this blog with your friends and anyone else who loves to read and is looking to diversify their reading lists this year!
Also, I will be hopefully adding Hanah Hart's book Buffering to my list this year, because I absolutely adore her!
Thanks for these! <3
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