Nationality/Tribal Affiliation

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Please note that nationalities listed refer to countries of a character, poet, essayist, or memoir author’s descent; they may be of any generation within. In the case of second-world fantasy novels, they may refer to the inspiration of the setting, particularly in the cases where the author is of that background.

(LI/MS = Love Interest/Major Secondary, which have been included only in cases where the author shares a background with that character)

Aboriginal

Afghan

  • *No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed

Algerian

Algonquin

  • Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón
  • Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

Angolan

Anishinaabe

Antiguan

Argentinean

  • Brickmakers by Selva Almada
  • Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

Armenian

Bangladeshi

Bengali

Bosnian

  • Nadia by Christine Evans

Bhutanese

Brazilian

Cambodian

Cameroonian

Cherokee

Chinese

MG

YA

Adult

Colombian

Cree

Croatian

Cuban

Cypriot

  • The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Jamaican-Greek Cypriot)
  • I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta

Czech

Dine (Navajo)

Dominican

Dutch

Ecuadorian

Egyptian

Estonian

Ethiopian

Filipino

Finnish

French

German

Ghanaian

  • No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben
  • Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah

Greek

Greenlander

Guayanese

Haitian

Honduran

  • Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar

Hungarian

  • This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke (YA)
  • The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan

Indian

MG/YA

NA/Adult

Indonesian

Iranian/Persian

MG

  • The Glade by Naseem Jamnia

YA

Adult

Irish

Israeli

Italian

Jamaican

YA

Adult

Japanese

MG

YA

Adult

Kenyan

Korean

MG

YA

Adult

Lakota

  • “Before We Disperse Like Stardust” in Homesick by Nino Cipri

Lebanese

Lipan Apache

Malaysian

Māori

Métis

Mexican

YA

NA/Adult

Moldovan

Moroccan

Nigerian

YA

Adult

Norwegian

Ojibwe

Oji-Cree

Pakistani

Palestinian

Panamanian

Polish

Portuguese

Puerto Rican

Romanian

Russian

Salvadoran

Sámi

Samoan

  • Mistland by Laya Rose (webcomic) (Maori-Samoan)

Scottish

Seminole

Singaporean

South African

Spanish

Sri Lankan

Syrian

Taiwanese

Thai

Trinidadian

Turkish

Uruguayan

Venezuelan

Vietnamese

Virgin Islander

Yemeni

Zambian

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