Gothtober Recommendations! || Morally Grey Books, BIPOC authors & Foreign Country Settings [CC]

Rapid fire recommendations of 21 books which fit the morally grey, BIPOC authors and foreign country settings prompts for the Gothtober readathon!

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📚 The Books 📚

🔖 Morally Grey Characters
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Gone by Michael Grant
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
🔖 BIPOC authors
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braith-Waite
🔖 Set in a Foreign Country
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Where Europe Begins by Yoko Tawada
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
No Friend but the Mountain by Behrouz Boochani
City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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The readathon is happening throughout the entire month of October 2020.

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Hi! I’m Olivia-Savannah. I’m a British student studying English Literature and Creative Writing in the UK. I also spend a lot of time in the Netherlands where some of my family live. I love reading, writing, yoga, cooking and baking. I love reading all genres and age audiences. Nice to meet you x

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[septimasnape]

Born a crime and city of brass are really amazing books!

I have the mercies on my shelf, i should really get to it

[sophiecarbone]

So excited for Gothtober!! And Theo from the goldfinch is definitely one of my fave morally gray characters!!

[ddgraywrites]

yaassss excited to participate in this readathon!!!

[coly]

The ask and the answer sounds really interesting! I definitely recommend Vicious by VE Schwab for morally grey characters! Ahhh I loved pride so much!😁❤ thank you so much for these recommendations!

[hannahcanreadsometimes]

I looovveee the goldfinch!! Whoooaa I completely forgot about gone. Gotta have six of crows when talking about morally gray characters!! 💜💜 if we were villains is AMAZING!!! Monstress is such a good graphic novel series!! Loved the way you described my sister the serial killer. 💜💜

[Tarasreadingnook]

Nice I'll think on some of these books.

[HamsavahiniVajraasthra]

Namaste Olivia dear!🙂Loved the recommendations, great video.🥰💝👍

[universewithinpages]

I absolutely love all these recommendations! Children of Blood and Bone was such a good read, and I can't believe I haven't gotten to the sequel yet!

[litnana]

Def looking forward to reading pride and children of blood and bone! LOVED The sun is also a star. I've heard great things about born a crime, i just need to prepare myself to read biographies

[Emiloid]

Thanks so much for these fab recommendations, I'm psyched for this readathon and really glad for some TBR ideas! I did love Trevor Noah's autobiography and I think the audiobook is absolutely the best way to read it!

[AReaderinTime]

I am SO excited for Gothtober!! I’ll definitely be participating and I can’t wait 😁 thanks for the recommendations!

[Bibliofilth]

So many great book recs in here! Persepolis is excellent.

[WhatVictoriaRead]

Great list! I loved My Sister, The Serial Killer, although I’d classify it as a literary fiction, rather than a thriller. I’ve got If We Were Villains, The Mercies and the Trevor Noah book on my never ending TBR! Fab video, thanks for sharing!

[bookschocaholic]

Of all the videos YouTube could randomly forget to notify me As ever, some interesting recs on here! I'm feeling personally pressured into reading the gone series now hahaha! Still love that you love chaos walking!!! 😍 The mercies sounds amazing!!!

[bebella]

I remember loving Gone back in the day! I can't wait to get to Six of Crows. I've had the entire Chaos Walking trilogy for the longest time, but still haven't gotten around to reading them. I loved Marjorie Liu's run of Black Widow and X-23, so I'm really excited for Monstress as well - can't wait to see what she does with an original world and cast of characters. Patron Saints of Nothing, My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Mercies are on my list! Persepolis is AMAZING, I love it so much! Great video 💕

[AMAR]

So many great recommendations!!! Volume 5 of Monstress is coming out soon and I can't wait!!

[LanaFeyah]

I'm not participating in Gothtober, but any book recommendation of yours is one that I value. Thank you!

[Priscilla_Bettis]

They all sound so good! My favorite morally grey character off the top of my head is the serial killer in Michaelbrent Collings' Strangers. The killer is viscous, but he thinks he's doing what's right and needed. (Freakin' scary story.)

[LocDBooktician]

Olivia I just love your channel and thank you for the recommendations

[gaiaathena-books]

I really liked the Gone series, as you know. A great recommendation for morally grey characters! And yes Six of Crows / Crooked Kingdom is a perfect example of morally grey characters as well, I liked this duology, it has great characters (I like Jesper too, but I like most of the main characters haha). I really liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Haha you had to mention Children of Blood and Bone! I fully agree with the recommendation. I liked When Dimple Met Rishi too, it was a great buddy read 🧡! I still need to read more by Sandhya Menon. I agree, The Sun Is Also A Star is such a fast read. I enjoyed it when I read it. I have Patron Saints of Nothing on my TBR because of your review! I have Persepolis on my wishlist. I loved Born A Crime! It was the first book I ever reviewd on my YouTube channel as a single video, I think. I have The God of Small Things on my TBR. I have The City of Brass on my wishlist. The book series I think of when I think of morally grey characters, is the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.