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As far as East Asia is concerned, I would put the Confucius on the list before the Laozi. Of course it's indisputable that the Laozi is a big deal, but the Confucius is to east Asia what the Bible is to Europe. The Laozi is great, it's inspiring, but the more I read the Confucius, the better I understand China, and east Asia as a whole. The only thing that might have been more influential in that part of the world is Buddhism.

All that said of course, except for space there's nothing that says they can't both be on there.

Also, unfortunately when we're talking about the classical Chinese canon, you don't find many women writers, and they don't show up until the Han dynasty. Even more troublesome is that there just isn't much written about women in Chinese history or writing, makes really difficult to read about them.

Further, in my searching while writing this I found this book(http://www.amazon.com/Women-Writers-Traditional-China-Anthology/dp/0804732310) which looks great and has been ordered, and I was reminded of this(http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Brush-Imperial-Monographs/dp/067401393X) which is apparently excellent though I haven't read it at all myself.

You should read A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava. A very brief, surface-level synopsis is that its about the son of Columbian immigrants who becomes a public defender in Brooklyn. He gets involved in a scheme to rip off Dominican (?) drug dealers with another lawyer. There are many subplots and myriad characters which makes it feel more complex than some average lawyer/heist book.

The book kind of reads like Junot Diaz with less Spanglish. The prose is unorthodox in that sense and incredibly funny. Definitely parts with pitch black humor. It's absolutely hilarious while making some pretty relevant points about modern culture, our ass backwards legal system, and the insipid way most people absorb the culture. If you've ever read Infinite Jest you'll be able to tell that the author was very influenced D.F. Wallace, but not in an annoying way like some people. This book 100% fits in with the authors you've listed above excluding Saunders since I've never read him.

It's also only a penny on amazon if you order it. Such a good deal.

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Singularity-Novel-Sergio-Pava/dp/0226141799

Well, a book I've been interested in reading is So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, partially because it has an intro by Samuel R. Delany <3, but also as a way to ease myself into postcolonial literature, since I'm a lot more comfortable with science fiction and fantasy than I am with more non-fictional stories.

But then again, part of the reason why I decided to join this book club was to get out of my literary shell of science fiction, fantasy and "literature." So I'm probably going to side with RazorEddie's post as a list of suggestions.

The post was about queer history books. My favorite queer history book is George Chauncey's Gay New York, a fascinating study of the role of urban space in New York's gay community in the first half of the twentieth century. Your response is pretty bewildering and unhinged tbh.

edit: oh, this is an /r/TIA troll, nevermind

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is another example of a male author creating great female characters.

I read like four trashy romance novels back to back when I graduated from college. Of all the ones I read that summer, The Pirate and the Pagan is the best/worst. A lot of the writing is cringe-inducingly bad (especially in the ubiquitous sex scenes), but it's incredibly fun to read and mock.

Once you finish that, I'd recommend:

Stone Butch Blues

Female Masculinity

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

SCAB Manifesto

Oddly enough I'm not really well versed in queer non-fiction about trans women, which is ironic since I am a trans woman.

And these are the theoretical foundations of queer theory:

The History of Sexuality

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

And last but not least, a short pamphlet giving an indigenous person's perspective "Gays: Guardians of the Gates"

Israel: A Pigeon and a Boy

China: Dream of Ding Village (Yan Like) - inspired by a blood selling ring that led to many being infected with HIV/AIDS. deeply political, exploring the corruption which enabled and abetted the scandal.

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin Audiobook Torrent

A Darkness at Noon Arthur Koesteler Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy Eds. Nalo Hopkinson, Uppinder Mehan, and Samuel R. Delany Amazon Kindle

The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Amazon Kindle

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf Ntozake Shange Amazon Kindle

The Human Stain Philip Roth Amazon Kindle

The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence

Three Day Road Joseph Boyden Amazon Kindle

The Sun Also Rises Hemingway (As a primer on shitlordlery) Amazon Kindle ebook Torrent Audiobook Torrent

Black Like Me John Howard Griffin

Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya Amazon Kindle

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Audiobook Torrent- Warning, no seeders

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets David Simon Amazon Kindle

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood David Simon

Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Sudhir Venkatesh Amazon Kindle

Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh Amazon Kindle

Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Amazon Kindle

The Soviet Century Moshe Lewin

Griftopia Matt Taibbi Amazon Kindle Torrent

Where the Girls Are Susan J. Douglas

The Body Project Joan Jacobs Brumberg Amazon Kindle

Why School? Mike Rose Amazon Kindle

Killing Hope William Blum

Bad Samaritans, Kicking Away The Ladder and 23 Things They Don't Tell you about Capitalism Ha-Joong Chang

How Rich Countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor Erik Reinert Amazon Kindle

Whipping Girl Julia Serano Amazon Kindle

Republic.com 2.0 Cass Sunstein Amazon Kindle

Men in the Off Hours or Autobiography of Red Anne Carson

Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks

Sister Outsider Audre Lorde Amazon Kindle

Getting Mother's Body Suzan Lori-Parks Amzon Kindle

The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir Amazon Kindle

Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson

Bayou Jeremy Love

A Light in August Faulkner Amazon Kindle Audiobook Torrent

Authors, generally:

Margaret Atwood Amazon Kindle eBook Collection Torrent

Kate Chopin Collected Works Amazon Kindle

Oscar Wilde Amazon Kindle

Salman Rushdie Amazon Kindle eBook Torrent

Zadie Smith Amazon Kindle

Toni Morrison Amazon Kindle eBook and Audiobook Torrents

Chinua Achebe Amazon Kindle Things Fall Apart eBook Torrent

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (everything by him seems to be in Spanish) Amazon Kindle Torrents

Haruki Murakami [Amazon Kindle(http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3AMurakami&keywords=Murakami&ie=UTF8) eBook and Audiobook Torrents

Sherman Alexie Amazon Kindle

Ha Jin Amazon Kindle


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