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Like many here, I don't pay attention to race when picking books, so have no idea on author skin color unless the author is rather famous. I did go through my read list of the year a few years ago after getting into a debate about this on BookRiot, who focuses a lot on race and diversity when creating their reading challenges of the year, and had to look up the authors had pictures available on Goodreads. As a coincidence, it did turn out that over 98% of my reading that year was white authors. It wasn't from my choice of only picking up white authors, but their point that more white authors are published and promoted in general. I try to seek out books from other races and pay more attention now.
I read Toni Morrison for the first time a few years back with Sula - she wrote beautifully! I intend to read more of her works
The Mothers by Brit Bennett was very well done and I plan on getting her new book released this month.
Both of these books were general fiction/drama genre
Most of my reading is Urban Fantasy, mystery, some romance and some horror. I read other genres as well but they don't make up the larger bulk of my reading percentage. I really have no idea of author race unless I research the author for most of the books I do read, and I don't think about it or have the time to do this on a regular basis.
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