Reading Across Canada 🍁 2024 (Bookworm Adventure Girl) - hosted by justabean_reads

February - Canadian Black History/Black Canadian Author
🍁 Recommendations from Announcement Video 🍁

Childhood by André Alexis (ON)
In The Upper Country by Kai Thomas (ON)
The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole (AB, ON)
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (AB, BC)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (AB, BC)
Gutter Child by Jael Richardson (ON)
Reproduction by Ian Williams (ON)
Disorientation by Ian Williams (ON)
Butter Honey Pig Bread by francesca ekwuyasi (NS)
Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr (AB)
They Call Me George by Cecil Foster (ON)
Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough (BC, AB, QC)
Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (ON)
Junie by Chelene Knight (BC)
What We All Long For by Dionne Brand (ON)
Black Writers Matter Edited by Whitney French (ON)
Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard (ON) 
All books added
Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

135 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

244 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ emotional reflective medium-paced
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

Tajja Isen

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays funny informative reflective medium-paced
Junie by Chelene Knight

Junie

Chelene Knight

334 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Disorientation: Being Black in the World by Ian Williams

Disorientation: Being Black in the World

Ian Williams

5 hours, 31 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard

292 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

Desmond Cole

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements by francesca ekwuyasi, Roger Mooking

Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements

francesca ekwuyasi, Roger Mooking

208 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art music
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