POC Author and Book Suggestions, L-Z

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(MG=Middle Grade, YA=Young Adult, NF=Non-Fiction, CH=Children's)

Listed by Author: (click here for A-K list)

L

Lahiri, Jhumpa

The Namesake
Unaccustomed Earth
Maladies

Larbalestier, Justine

Liar (YA)

Lemus, Felicia Luna

Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties
Like Son

Levine, James A.

The Blue Notebook

Levy, Andrea

The Long Song
Small Island
Never Far From Nowhere
Fruit of the Lemon

Lin, Grace

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (CH)
Year of the Rat (CH)
Year of the Dog (CH)

Lin, Tao

you are a little bit happier than i am
Eeeee Eee Eeee
Shoplifting From American Apparel

Lo, Malinda

Ash (YA)

Lockheart, E.

Dramarama (YA)

Lopez, Diana

Confetti Girl (YA)

Lorde, Audre

The Black Unicorn
A Burst of Light
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Louis, Adrian C.

Skins
Logorrhea
Bone and Juice
Evil Corn
Wild Indians and Other Creatures
Ceremonies of the Damned
Among the Dog Eaters
Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (ed.)

Lyons, Kelly Starling

One Million Men and Me (CH)
NEATE: Eddie's Ordeal (CH)

M
Magoon, Kekla

The Rock and the River (YA/MG)

Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk to Freedom

Manivong, Laura

Escaping the Tiger (MG)

Marino, Peter

Magic or Misery (YA)

Márquez, Gabriel García

Love in the Time of Cholera
Leaf Storm
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Autumn of the Patriarch
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Innocent Erendira

Marshall, Paule

Praisesong for the Widow
Brown Girl, Brownstones
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

Martel, Yann

Life of Pi
Beatrice and Virgil

Martin, S.I.

Jupiter Williams (YA)
Jupiter Amidships (YA)
Incomparable World

Martinez, Tomas Eloy

Santa Evita
Flight of the Queen
The Passion According to Trelew

Martinez, Victor

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida (YA)

Mathabane, Mark

Kaffir Boy
African Women
Miriam's Song

McBride, James

The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (NF)
Miracle at St. Anna
Song Yet Sung

McCall, Guadalupe Garcia

Under the Mesquite (YA)
A Mesquite in the Rose Garden (YA)

McDonnell, Carole

Windfollower

McFadden, Bernice

Sugar
Glorious
Nowhere is a Place
Camilla's Roses
Loving Donovan
This Bitter Earth
The Warmest December

McKissack, Patricia

Color Me Dark (MG)

Mclaurin, Melton

Celia, A Slave (NF)

McMillan, Terry

Waiting to Exhale
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Disappearing Acts
The Interruption of Everything
Breaking Ice

McNair, Wendy Raven

Awake
Asleep
Giant Slayers

Mealer, Bryan

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (with William Kamkwamba)
All Things Must Fight to Win

Meminger, Neesha

Shine, Coconut Moon (YA)

Miller-Lachmann, Lyn

Gringolandia (YA)

Montero, Mayra

The Messenger
Deep Purple
The Last Night I Spent With You
The Red of His Shadow

Moody, Anne

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Mosley, Walter

Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mystery)
Known to Evil

Morrison, Toni

The Bluest Eye
Beloved
Song of Solomon
Sula
Jazz
Love
A Mercy

Murakami, Haruki

After Dark
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
After the Quake
Sputnik Sweetheart
South of the Border West of the Sun
Hear the Wind Sing

Murray, Millie

Lois (YA)
Kiesha (YA)
Jade (YA)
Sorelle (YA)
Cairo Hughes (YA)

Mussi, Sara

The Last of the Warrior Kings
The Door of No Return

Myers, Walter Dean

Monster (YA)
Scorpions (YA)
Dope Sick (YA)
Sunrise Over Fallujah (YA)
Amiri and Odette (YA)
Fallen Angels (YA)
Crystal (YA)

N
Na, An

The Fold (YA)
Wait For Me (YA)
A Step From Heaven (YA)

Naipaul, V.S.

Half a Life
A House For Mr. Biwas
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (NF)
Guerillas
The Middle Passage (NF)
A Bend in the River
The Enigma of Arrival

National Museum of the American Indian

Do All Indians Live in Tipis?

Naylor, Gloria

Mama Day
The Women of Brewster Place
Bailey's Cafe
1996

Nelson, Marilyn

Pemba’s Song (with Tonya C. Hegamin) (YA)

Nordwall, Adam Fortunate Eagle

Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz (NF)
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School (NF)

North, Pearl

Lybrinth (YA)

Northup, Solomon

Twelve Years a Slave (NF)

O
Oyeyemi, Helen

The Icarus Girl
The Opposite House

P
Pamuk, Orhan

Snow
The Black Book
Cevdet Bey and His Sons
The Silent House
The White Castle
Istanbul: Memories and the City

Paredes, Americo

George Washington Gomez
With a Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (NF)

Parkin, Gaile

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Parra, Kelly

Graffiti Girl (YA)
Invisible Touch (YA)

Pellegrino, Marge

Journey of Dreams (MG)

Perkins, Mitali

First Daughter Series (YA)
The Secret Keeper (YA)
Bamboo People (YA)
Monsoon Summer (YA)

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

Wench

Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday

8th Grade Superzero (MG)

Pickering, Roy L., Jr.

Patches of Grey (YA)

Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

Consensual Genocide

Pon, Cindy

Silver Phoenix (YA)

Puig, Manuel

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Pullman, Philip

The Broken Bridge

Q
Qamar, Amjed

Beneath My Mother's Feet

R
Rai, Bali

What's Your Problem?
(Un)arranged Marriage
City of Ghosts
Concrete Chips
Two Timer
Rani & Sukh

Ramirez, Misa

Living La Vida Lola
Hasta La Vista Lola

Rees, Celia

Sorceress

Reeves, Dia

Bleeding Violet (YA)

Resau, Laura

Red Glass
The Indigo Notebook

Roby, Kimberla Lawson

The Best of Everything
Be Careful What You Pray For
One in a Million
A Deep Dark Secret

Roy, Arundhati

The God of Small Things

Roy, Jacqueline

Fat Chance (MG)
A Daughter Like Me (CH)
Playing It Cool (MG)
Soul Daddy (MG)
The Fat Lady Sings

Rusesabagina, Paul

An Ordinary Man (NF)

Rushdie, Salman

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Enchantress of Florence
Midnight's Children
Shalimar the Clown
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Satanic Verses
Shame

Ryan, Pam Munoz

Esperanza Rising (YA)

S
Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Last Night I Sang to the Monster
He Forgot to Say Goodbye
A Perfect Season for Dreaming (CH)
Carry Me Like Water
A Gift from Papa Diego (CH)
The House of Forgetting
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood (YA)

Sanchez, Alex

The God Box
Rainbow Boys Trilogy
Bait

Sapphire

Push
American Dreams

Saramago, Jose

Blindness
Seeing
The Cave
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Death With Interruptions

Satrapi, Marjane

Persepolis
Persepolis 2
Embroideries

Schraff, Anne

Bluford High series (with Paul Langan) (YA)
Urban Underground series (YA)

Seale, Doris

The Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children (ed, with Beverly Slapin)
Ghost Dance: New and Selected Poems
The Multicolored Mirror: Cultural Substance in Literature for Children and Young Adults

See, Lisa

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Peony in Love
The Red Princess Mysteries

Seierstad, Asne

The Bookseller of Kabul

Selvon, Samuel

The Lonely Londoners
A Brighter Sun
Moses Ascending

Senzai, N.H.

Shooting Kabul (MG)

Seraji, Mahbod

Rooftops of Tehran

Setiawan, Erick

Of Bees and Mist

Shah, Tahir

The Caliph’s House
In Arabian Nights
In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Sheth, Kashmira

Keeping Corner
Boys Without Names
Monsoon Afternoon

Sitomer, Alan Lawrence

The Hoopster (YA)
Hip Hop High School (YA)
Homeboyz (YA)
The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez (YA)

Smith, Charles R., Jr.

Chameleon (YA)
I Am America (CH)
Hoop Kings (CH)
Hoop Queens (CH)
Tall Tales (CH)

Smith, Cynthia Leitich

Eternal (YA)
Tantalize (YA)
Indian Shoes (CH)
Rain Is Not My Indian Name (MG)
Jingle Dancer (CH)

Smith, Zadie

White Teeth
On Beauty

Soto, Gary

Buried Onions (YA)
The Afterlife (YA)
Jesse (YA)
Nickle and Dime (YA)

Stork, Francisco X.

Marcelo in the Real World (YA)
Last Summer of the Death Warriors (YA)
Behind the Eyes (YA)
The Way of the Jaguar (YA)

Strom, Kay Marshall

The Call of Zulina
In the Presence of the Poor: Changing the Face of India

Sundaresan, Indu

The Feast of Roses
The Twentieth Wife
The Splendor of Silence
In the Convent of Little Flowers

T
Tademy, Lalita

Red River
Cane River

Takami, Koushun

Battle Royale

Tan, Amy

Joy Luck Club
Kitchen God's Wife
Hundred Secret Senses
Bonesetter's Daughter
Opposite of Fate (NF)

Tan, Hwee Hwee

Foreign Bodies
Mammon, Inc.

Tang, Camy

Deadly Intent
Sushi Series

Tanizaki, Junichiro

Naomi
Quicksand
In Praise of Shadows
The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man
The Makioka Sisters
Some Prefer Nettles

Taylor, Mildred D.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa

Weep Not, Child
Wizard of the Crow
Petals of Blood

Trethewey, Natasha

Native Guard

Treuer, David

Little
The Translation of Dr. Apelles
The Hiawatha
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual

U


V
Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa

Haters (YA)
The Dirty Girls Social Club
Playing With Boys

Venkatraman, Padma

Climbing the Stairs

Voorhees, Coert

The Brothers Torres (YA)

W
Walker, Alice

The Color Purple
Meridian
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Possessing the Secret of Joy

Wallach, Diana Rodriguez

Adios to All the Drama (YA)
Amor and Summer Secrets (YA)
Amigas and School Scandals (YA)

Washington, Booker T.

Up From Slavery

Welch, James

Fool's Crow
The Death of Jim Loney
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (NF)
Winter in the Blood
The Indian Lawyer
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Last Stand at the Little Bighorn (poetry)

Westerfield, Scott

Extras (YA)

Wheatley, Phyllis

Poems on Various Subjects
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave

Wheland, Gloria

Homeless Bird
Chu Ju's House
The Listeners

Williams, Tia

It Chicks (YA)

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Jumped (YA)
No Laughter Here (YA)
Every Time a Rainbow Dies (YA)
Like Sisters on the Homefront (YA)
Fast Talk on a Slow Track (YA)
One Crazy Summer (YA)
Blue Tights (YA)

Wilson, August

The Piano Lesson (The Pittsburgh Cycle)
Fences (The Pittsburgh Cycle)
Two Trains Running (The Pittsburgh Cycle)

Woodson, Jacqueline

If You Come Softly (YA)
The Dear One (YA)
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (YA)
After Tupac and D. Foster (YA)

Wright, Richard

Native Son
Uncle Tom's Children
Black Boy
The Outsider

X


Y
Yang, Gene Luen

American Born Chinese (YA)
The Eternal Smile

Yee, Lisa

Millicent Min, Girl Genius (MG)
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time (MG)
Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (MG)
Absolutely, Maybe (YA)

Yerby, Frank

Fairoakes
An Odor of Sanctity
Goat Song
The Old Gods Laugh
Hail the Conquering Hero
A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest
The Dahomean

Z
Zephaniah, Benjamin

Face (YA)
Gansta Rap (YA)
Refugee Boy (YA)

**Last updated: 2/8/2010