I fail at reading 50 books by people of color, but these are the ones I did read.

50books_poc is a community full of book reviews and recommendations. The challenge is to read 50 books, any genre, by an author of color. Many wonderful people are really good at reviewing the books they read on the comm; I am not one of them. This is the only set of book reviews I've written, and I'm woefully short of 50 books, as you see, but it was so worth joining that community. I had a list of scifi/fantasy authors of color (which I link to, below) but I was making my way only haphazardly through it; if I hadn't watched the community, I wouldn't have seen the many recommendations for Colson Whitehead, and that alone has been an invaluable discovery.

( The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, Imaro by Charles Saunders, The Living Blood by Tananarive Due, East/West by Salman Rushdie, Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf :a choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, E-Mails from Scheherazad by Mohja Kahf )

That's it! Wish I'd read more, but there's always next year.