Recs if you like Eve out of Her Ruins...

Writing and voices from outside of the white Western canon. Fiction and Non-fiction with an emphasis in diaspora, decolonization, global history, and resistance narratives from around the world. Features African, Asian, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern voices.

Began with many recommendations from Jamin Anderson (@jaminanderson__ on Instagram) and has expanded with the help of the Pagebound community.

This is a list of translated books (to English ) from Deep Vellum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that chooses books to publish for their artistic and social value.

classic literature featuring authors and stories of africa, asia, and the middle east, mostly narrative fiction and memoirs instead of poetry/spiritual

Stories by women from across the world, brought to us through translation.

books from outside of the us that have taken home the gold (ideally in translation)

some of the books selected are from authors who were overall recognized

writers from colonized places exacting unflinching critique of the extractive tourist economy

Books about oppressed women, both fiction and non-fiction.

I had a hard time finding fiction books that portrait poverty well, without glamorizing it or demonizing it. These ones are a few that I found, the list is open for more.