Power to the People: A 2021 World Voices Festival Reading List

By PEN America

By PEN America

Power to the People: A 2021 World Voices Festival Reading List

PEN America’s World Voices Festival is proud to share these books, newly and soon-to-be published by authors appearing at the 2021 World Voices Festival. In line with this year's festival theme, Power to the People, these stories possess the capacity to challenge misconceptions, reimagine new worlds, and instill hope. Please join us in celebrating these luminous voices!

Lady Joker, Volume 1

Lady Joker, Volume 1

Kaoru Takamura

$28.95
$26.92
Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan's #Metoo Movement

Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan's #Metoo Movement

Shiori Ito

$17.95
$16.69
The Ten Loves of Nishino

The Ten Loves of Nishino

Hiromi Kawakami

$16.00
$14.88
The Bird King

The Bird King

G. Willow Wilson

$18.00
$16.74
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of...

Saidiya Hartman

$17.95
$16.69
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

$16.95
$15.76
Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A Story for Our Times

Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A Story for Our Times

Pádraig Ó. Tuama

$20.99
$19.52
In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

Pádraig Ó. Tuama

$19.99
$18.59
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples...

$15.00
$13.95
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came...

$19.95
$18.55
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021

Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021

Yusef Komunyakaa

$35.00
$32.55
The Committed

The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen

$27.00
$25.11
Detransition, Baby

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

$27.00
$25.11
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Rivka Galchen

$27.00
$25.11
Sorrowland

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon

$27.00
$25.11
Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

Randa Jarrar

$26.00
$24.18
Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster

Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster

Polina Barskova

$63.54
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

$38.00
What's Mine and Yours

What's Mine and Yours

Naima Coster

$28.00
$26.04
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob

$22.00
$20.46
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and...

Matthew Salesses

$16.95
$15.76
How Beautiful We Were

How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue

$28.00
$26.04
The Shadow King

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

$17.95
$16.69
Swimming Back to Trout River

Swimming Back to Trout River

Linda Rui Feng

$26.00
$24.18
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems

The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems

Threa Almontaser

$16.00
$14.88