Diversity in Reading Meme

I borrowed this meme from Matt over at A Guy's Moleskine Notebook because...well..because I'm too tired to think of a blog post on my own, and the questions seemed very interesting.

Name the last book by a female author that you’ve read.

The Charioteer by Mary Renault.

Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you’ve read.

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Name one from a Latino/a author.

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (Argentina)

How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (Sri Lanka)

What about a GLBT writer?

Metes and Bounds by Jay Quinn

Why not name an Israeli/Arab/Turk/Persian writer, if you’re feeling lucky?

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Iran)

Any other “marginalized” authors you’ve read lately?

That's hard to say. I think many of the gay/lesbian writers I've read or will read have been marginalized at one point: Radclyffe Hall, Reinaldo Arenas, to name a few.

Do you read non-fiction regularly? Do you read it in a different way or place than you read fiction?

I don't read non-fiction too often, though lately, I've read quite a few Web-related books for work. The most recent of those was Web Design for ROI by Loveday and Niehaus. I usually try to throw one or two non-fiction works into the mix of books I read.

Would you consider magazines non-fiction?

That depends upon the magazine. Time is definitely non-fiction, but I also enjoy reading Isaac Asimov's Tales of Science Fiction which for the most part contains more fiction with smaller articles of fact.