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pallas_athenaa t1_j20xvtl wrote

Reply to comment by Gen_Give_Me_My_Medal in WIBTA if I made our book club read about the Holocaust? by Gen_Give_Me_My_Medal

Books about the Apartheid, North Korea, Native American culture, pretty much any non-white group in the United States (but try to find books that are written by people from that culture).

Some ideas: Farewell to Manzanar (this is a kids book though) by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Japanese internment camps in the US)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (European colonization)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Mexican American culture)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (I really recommend this one) (military intervention in Afhanistan)

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (a Korean family living in Japan)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (police violence against Black men in the US)

There's a lot out there if excellent novels that provide fresh perspectives on other systems of oppression.

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IDontEvenKnowThisKid t1_j20zu9b wrote

I would like to second the suggestion for The Hate U Give. The author tied in lyrics from Tupac (he's responsible for the book's title) and can generate conversation for the book club around the poetry of rap lyrics as well as the realities of police violence in the US.

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