You do realize most of my Jewish grandparents were killed in the Holocaust right?
There's also Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter. It's high fantasy with some African mythology influences. Didn't finish it but it does look interesting. Afrofantasy is my favourite subgenre. Examples:
Another point is that I almost overlooked okarafor because people said its YA therefore shes bad lol. It's not YA but even if it were, who cares?
Subconscious bias. I also overlooked almost every book I mentioned because it's YA lmao. It's just that a lot of YA books are written by people who clearly spend too long on twitter, so those horrible books somewhat poison the well and make the rest look bad. Tomi Adeyemi is very much a YA writer who fits every negative connotation I have, but I just ignore her beliefs because her books are pretty well written. It's hard to get rid of that bias sometimes
Litcucks are some of the most smug people ever ngl. I only mention my interest in books passively and stay away from shit like book clubs because those spaces are always a dick measuring contest. What genres you read determine your class. The length of the books determine your wisdom, even if the book is from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (literally 3000 pages of Yaoi). In history spaces it becomes more about quantity. Oh you read 2 books on King Kaleb and think you're qualified to talk about Axum? Well I read 15 books on general aksumite history and know everything about their conquest of Yemen, so suck it. (Even though those 15 books all regurgitated the same information with different wording lol)
Having that would solve half my problems and the problems of most users here lol
Try light novels first, like welcome to the NHK
try reading whatever you enjoy, it's that simple. Look up interesting books and start reading, don't try and read things you aren't interested in just to look 'intellectual' or something, it'll be boring and nobody will care. Once you find a good book and are finished reading, try finding books similar to it and keep going from there. Like after I read NHK, I read a similar-ish book called Bel Ami about a French NEET.
