#NonFicNov week 3 Be/Ask/Become the Expert

Week 3: (Nov. 16 to 20) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert (Rennie of What’s Nonfiction): Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).

1. Something has to change in USA.
2. Racism isn’t worse…it is just getting filmed!
3. …George Floyd killing on 25.05.2020.
   
4. I can only start to understand what has to change
5. …by educating myself….by reading.
6. I concentrated on books about race and racism in 2020.

My thoughts:

1. I’ve made a decision about 2021.
2. I want to read AS MANY books AS I CAN 
3. by minority authors.
   
4. Fiction, memoirs, poetry, non-fiction,
5. ….(auto)biography, short stories essays, plays...
6. I want to discover just  how white our reading world is.
7. White authors reign in book reviews, bestseller lists, literary awards
8. ….and Amazon.com recommendations.
9. I was stunned when I read  that cultural commentator Roxane Gay discovered
10. in a survey of New York Times articles published in 2011
11. …that nearly 90 percent of the reviewed books were authored by white writers. 
12. People of all cultures and backgrounds have valuable experiences
13. …and universal ideas to share.
14. We all stand to gain when those voices are heard.
15. So, if you have ANY  good reading suggestions by minority writers
16. (African-American, African, Indonesian
17. …Indian, Chinese, Hispanic, Native American, Aboriginal…etc)
18. ...please leave the book title in a comment.
19. …much appreciated!

Books read:

1. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson (#MustRead)
2. Just Us – C. Rankine (#MustRead)   The BEST  book on this list!
   
3. The Fire This Time – editor Jesmyn Ward  (#MustRead)
   
4. The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
   
5. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
6. Tears We Cannot Stop – M. Dyson  (#MustRead)
7. Democracy In Black – E.S. Glaude jr.
   
8. My Vanishing Country – B. Sellers
   
9. How to Be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
   
10. Brown is The New White – Steve Phillips
11. Heavy – Kiese Laymon  (#MustRead….but I advise it as audio book)
12. We Live for the We – D. McClain
    
13. Caste – I. Wilkerson
14. White Too Long – Robert P. Jones  (eye-opener about white supremacy!)

TBR:   American reading list:

1. A Promised Land – Barak Obama
2. The Tradition – Jericho Brown (poetry)
   
3. Tough Love – Susan Rice
4. The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison – R. Ellison
5. Citizen: An American Lyric  – Claudia Rankine
6. A Fool’s Errand – Lonnie G. Bunch
7. Girl, Woman, Other – B. Evaristo
8. Beloved – Toni Morrison
9. They Can’t Kill Us All – Wesley Lowery
10. Nobody Knows My Name – James Baldwin
11. Their Eyes Are Watching – Zora N. Hurston
12. I Wonder as I Wander – Langston Hughes
13. Think Like A White Man – Nels Abbey
14. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgen Lessons for Our Own – E.S. Glaude jr.
15. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
16. Homie – Danez Smith (poetry)

TBR  Australia Indigenous

1. Archie Roach –  Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music
   
2. Chris Sarra – Good Morning Mr. Sarra
   
3. Stan Grant – Talking To My Country
   
4. The White Girl – Tony Birch
   
5. Claire Coleman –  Terra Nullis
6. Rachel Hennessy – The Heart I Swallowed
7. Shireen Morris – Radical Heart
8. Tara June Winch – The Yield
9. Witi Ihimaera – Mãori Boy
   
10. Anita Heiss – Am I Black Enough?
11. Larissa Behrendt – Finding Eliza
    
12. Bruce Pascoe –  Dark Emu
13. Nakkiah Lui – Kill the Messanger
14. Miranda Tapsell – Top End Girl
15. Selina Tusitala Marsh – Tightrope (poetry)

Obama’s 19 favorite books 2019

1. I’m reading 9 of these books before deadline 01.01.2021
2. ….9 by white authors.
3. Per 01 January this exciting challenge begins!