February is Black History Month, and here at the Mechanics' Institute Library we want to celebrate by highlighting fiction by authors of color. Come by the second floor during the month of February to check out our display! For those of you participating in the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, this display is also a great opportunity to check off some of the books on that list. Here's the full readers' guide for those of you who don't want to miss a single book:
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento by Sandra Cisneros
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Shantytown by César Aira
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Story of the Cannibal Woman by Maryse Condé
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
