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On Nerdtastic News, talked about cool Buzzfeed list about 23 Struggles Only Book Nerds Will Understand. The Black Owned Business of the Week is Absynia where you can buy beautiful handcrafted jewelry.  This week discussed the “K Tempest Challenge” where people challenge themselves to read authors other than white straight cis male authors for a year.  We share 5 books we recommend to read for the challenge.  For more recommendations, check out the #nonCSWMbooks tag on twitter.

JP Fairfield's Picks

  • Living Large anthology with Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Francis Ray
  • Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
  • Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
  • Bayou graphic novel by Jeremy Love
  • Half-Resurrection Blues by DJ Older 
  • Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend) by L.A. Banks

    • Melissa's Picks

    • Big Machine by Victor LaVille
    • The Known World by Edward P. Jones (or Lost in the City or All Aunt Hagar’s Children)
    • Americanah by Chimande Adichie (or That Thing Around Your Neck)
    • Before you Suffocate Your Own  Fool Self by Danielle Evans

      • DeAna's Picks

      • Kindred by Octavia Bulter
      • The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
      • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
      • The Repatriation of Henry Chin by Isaac Ho
      • Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
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