booklistchainloveletter

this fanciful Top Ten Book List According To ME was compiled for an among-friends people of color uneditorialized chain letter earlier this month initiated by Bao P. and Juliana P. (no relation) in response to amazonian universalized generalization and consumer illiterary oppression of the masses. this is in the chronological order by epoch that i read them beginning in the 5th grade until hereabouts.

• Reflections in Natural History series by Stephan Jay Gould

• The Hero and the Crown & The Blue Sword (Damar series) by Robin McKinley

• Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children graphic novel series by David Loaupre illus. Dan Sweetman (DC Comics, Piranha Press 1989-92)

• Truyen Kieu by Nguyen Du

• We Promise One Another: poems from an Asian war ed. Don Luce et al. (Indochina Mobile Education Project 1971)

• Before the Revolution: the Vietnamese peasants under the French by Ngo Vinh Long

• Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon

• All About Love series by bell hooks

• Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Hearts and Hands: a midwife's guide to pregnancy & birth by Elizabeth Davis