18 Recent Non-Fiction Audiobooks by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of our lists can be found here.
For this retroactive genre (or in this case, format) from Episode 27, we’re featuring non-fiction audiobooks by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years.
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce
Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
High-risk Homosexual: a Memoir by Edgar Gomez
The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen
Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples by Chief Clarence Louie
Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers by Dylan Marron
Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk by Shunmyo Masuno
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A. J. Verdelle
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2nd edition) by Edgar Villanueva
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Philip Wang, & Phil Yu
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books I read in 2023
I had a huge reading year this year because of my gruelingly long commute. The list below the cut is mostly for my own edification, but I’m a nosy person who supports other nosy people, so if you want to know what I’ve been up to, have at it. Almost everything I read this year was from the library.
1/12 A Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
1/18 The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, Sonora Reyes
1/24 The Life-Changing Magic of
Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
1/25 Hotel Magnifique, Emily J. Taylor
1/30 Spark Joy, Marie Kondo
2/2 The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
2/8 The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
2/8 Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, Ashley Herring Blake
2/15 The Nile, Toby Wilkinson
2/23 The Painted Queen, Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
2/28 Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
3/5 Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
3/12 Lord of the Silent, Elizabeth Peters
3/16 Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home, Marie Kondo
3/20 Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin
3/20 The Art of Simple Living, Shunmyo Masuno
3/26 The Bird’s Nest, Shirley Jackson
4/11 Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
4/12 A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
4/18 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4/21 Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, Tricia Hersey
5/1 Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo
5/3 Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, Ashley Herring Blake
5/10 Fight Like Hell: The Untold Story of American Labor, Kim Kelly
5/11 Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Joy Harjo
5/12 Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
5/15 The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
5/18 The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne Jones
5/29 A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
6/3 A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
6/6 Ducks, Kate Beaton
6/8 Wild and Wicked Things, Francesca May (awful. Every character was an idiot. Why did I finish this)
6/10 Breathing Lessons: A Doctor’s Guide to Lung Health, Meilan K. Han, MD
6/19 The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
6/19 A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib (I liked this even more than the last one I read. Maybe because it was an audiobook read by the author.)
6/22 Disjointed, Diana Jovin (ed) (skipped parts that were totally unrelated to me and some things that were also too technical)
6/22 The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson
6/26 Enquête au collège, Jean-Phillipe Arrou-Vignod
6/28 The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
7/3 Last Call, Elon Green
7/12 Cache Cache Petit Fantôme
7/13 Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-
Exupéry
7/13 La fille qui navigua autour de féérie dans un bateau construit de ses propres mains, Catherynne M Valente
7/14 Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire
7/14 Ich mag dich gesund sagte der Bär, Janosch
7/25 The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
7/31 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty
8/10 A Restless Truth, Freya Marske
8/16 Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle
9/6 The Body in the Garden, Katherine Schellman
9/11 Silence in the Library, Katherine Schellman
9/13 When Things Get Dark, various
9/19 Death at the Manor, Katherine Schellman
9/25 Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
10/3 The Grand Tour, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
10/6 Murder at Midnight, Katharine Schellman
10/12 The Mislaid Magician, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
10/18 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, Elizabeth Winkler
10/18 Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, JK Rowling
10/25 Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA search for Mind Control, Stephen Kinzer
11/1 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, Ashley Herring Blake
11/3 Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Shaw
11/9 Unfuck Your Habitat, Rachel Hoffman
11/11 Safe and Sound, Mercury Stardust
11/12 Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD (revised and updated), Susan C. Pinskey
11/18 Red Seas under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
11/20 In With the Old: Classic Decor A to Z, Jennifer Boles
11/23 Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren Liess
11/24 Vermeer: The Complete Paintings, Norbert Schneider
11/29 The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth L. Cline
12/4 Leech, Hiron Ennes
12/6 The Star that Always Stays, Anna Rose Johnson
P12/14 The Republic of Thieves, Scott Lynch
12/15 An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo
12/20 The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins
12/22 How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis
12/30 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson
Gave up on: The Woman Who Would Be King, Kara Cooney (too speculative/fictionalized)
A Scatter of Light, Malinda Lo (nothing really wrong, it just wasn’t holding my attention at all)
14 histoires pour avoir peur mais pas trop quand même (turned into full cast audio and the music between stories was really annoying)
Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin (not in the right headspace maybe, maybe just not for me)
American Cozy, Stephanie Pedersen (got annoyed at how much of the information hinged on living in a huge suburban home with 18 closets and a husband and multiple children you can make do your chores for you)
The Curated Closet, Anuschka Rees (not bad just not what I was looking for)
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