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Best of 2014: Medievalpoc Fiction Week Masterpost

All Fiction Week Posts in one Mega Reading List!!

• Thistil Mistil Kistil: Medieval Webcomic
• Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
• Novels by Amelie Howard
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
• Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon (includes criticism)
• Diversity Showcase: Indie YA Science Fiction, Fantasy and Steampunk
• Never Alone (Kisima Innitchuna) [-gifs at link]
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okarafor
• Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
• Review by skemono: Marvel: Mighty Avengers, by Al Ewing and Greg Land
• “As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White” by Elizabeth Blair
• Novels by Miriam Forster
• “A Diversity Reading List” by Ellen Oh
• Gaming and RPGs: V20 Dark Ages by David Hill
• Novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Octavia Butler Bibliography
• “Ellen Oh Talks History of Hanboks” by Ellen Oh
• Reading List: African Literature
• The N. K. Jemisin Bibliography
• ElfQuest by Wendy and Richard Pini (includes criticism)
• Sword and Silence by Joyce Chng
• Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction
• So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
• The Ursula K. LeGuin Bibliography
• Birth of a Dark Nation by Rashid Darden
• The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew
• “My Multicolored Heroes” by Sarwat Chadda
• Ms Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona & Jake Wyatt
• Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn by Danielle Ackley-McPhall and Day Al-Mohammed
• Novels by Zoe Marriott
• Short Fiction: Lunar Year’s End by Jaymee Goh (Crossed Genres)
• Short Fiction: Blessed are the Hungry by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Apex)
• The Blood of Eden series by Judy Kagawa
• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Diversity in YA: 10 Sci Fi/Fantasy Novels About Latino Characters
• Thorn by Intisar Khanani
• Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon
• Unforgiven: A Highlander Fic (based on a 19th century painted portrait’s resemblance to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) by C. E. Murphy
• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okarafor
• EastisEverywhere: topical commentary on discussions of multicultural Singaporean Literature
• #WeNeedDiverseBooks
• The Vast and Brutal Sea by Zoraida Cordova
• L’Île au trésor by Jean-Philippe Stassen and Sylvain Venayre
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel)
• Review by r-stern: Assassin’s Creed
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• “Diversity, Literature, and the Audacity of Writing”-shwetanarayan
• EastIsEverywhere: Selection of Singaporean Literature
• Review by Medievalpoc: Dicebox by Jenn Manley Lee
• Review by Medievalpoc: Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History ed. Rose Fox and Daniel José Older
• Mytho by Zimra
• Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier Saint-Georges by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• DiversityInYA: 9 Books With South Asian Main Characters
• Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow
• “Possibilities” by Medievalpoc
• Mary Robinette Kowal on the Glamourist Series, historical Accuracy, and Medievalpoc
• Discussion: Fairy Tales, Retellings, Race, and Creativity
• House of Hades by Rick Riordan
• “Black Nerds, Escapism, and Why We Need More Diverse Books” by Hannah Giorgis
• DiversityInYA: Diverse Selections Including Romeo and Juliet Retellings
• Review by Medievalpoc: Saga (Image Comics) by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
• 10 African American YA Authors to Know
• No Queens in Afrika: Women Rulers in Sword & Soul and Other African-Inspired Fantasy
• The Girl Who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton, art by Leo and Diane Dillon
• Refilwe: An African Retelling of Rapunzel by Zukiswa Wanner
• Bitch Magazine Series: Girls of Color in Dystopian YA Fantasy Literature
• Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories From History-Without the Fairytale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
• Neil Gaiman on Diverse Casting and American Gods
• Reading List: Books with Gay Women of Color Protagonists
• Fantasy Survey Results from writingcafe
• 10 Asian Pacific American YA Authors to Know
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack & J. Brian Pinkney
• FOR LOVE & LIBERTY: Untold Love Stories of the American Revolution
• The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
• Erekos by A.M. Tuola
• Dark Metropolis, Otherbound, Drift, Rebellion and more from DiversityInYA
• Crow in the Hollow by Brian W. Parker
• The Dragon King Chronicles by Ellen Oh
• “Don’t Categorize Diverse Books as ‘Special Interest’” by Ellen Oh
• “Notable Novels for Teens About the Arab World” by Elsa Marston
• Sin Eaters: Retribution by Kai Leakes
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson
• “The Most Important Advice I Can Give To Writers” by blue-author
• Half World by Hiromi Goto
• Author Corinne Duyvis on why her YA fantasy, Otherbound, is not an issue book
• Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
• Novels by Nnedi Okarafor
• Faerie Blood by Angela Korra’ti
• Annals of the Western Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Dreamblood series by N.K. Jemisin
• “12 Fundamentals of Writing “The Other” (And The Self)“ by Daniel José Older
• Junot Díaz and the White Gaze, La Respuesta Magazine
• “Whitewashing and the Earthsea Cycle” by Medievalpoc
• The Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce
• Review by Medievalpoc: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• “The Diversity Struggle for a POC Author” by Lydia Kang
• Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
• Discussion and Humor: Fantasy Sub-Genre Fiction “Explained”
• “Race, Sexuality, and the Mainstream” by Malinda Lo
• Review by Medievalpoc: Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars (a blurb from this review is included in the front matter of The Very Best of Kate Elliott, forthcoming in Feb. 2015)
• Wizards of the Coast’s Doug Beyer on Kiora, the Crashing Wave and Cultural Appropriation in Fantasy Media
• Broken Age trailer from Doublefine Studios
• Review by r-stern: Yoko Tsuno by Roger Leloup
• “Children and the Myth of Colorblind Youth” by Medievalpoc
• “Who Gets to Be a Superhero? Race and Identity in Comics” by Gene Demby
• Review by Medievalpoc: The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
• Medievalpoc accidentally reviews Wolves of the Dawn by William Sarabande while attempting to answer a question
• Kids Respond to Whitewashing on Book Covers

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