3 Books a Month. Exclusively Authors of Color.

In January 2025, while waiting for a yoga class I took regularly, I couldn’t put down Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. I began arriving early just to listen, and only then realized it was the third audiobook I’d finished that month.

By happenstance, because I loved them all, and all three were by authors of color... I intentionally chose to let that become a practice: 3 books each month, for a year, written entirely by BIPOC authors.

What emerged wasn’t a reading goal, but a rhythm: a sadhana. It quietly challenged two deeply held 'truths' I belief that I’d read more racialized authors someday when magically more time appeared, and the second very real 'truth' I held that I wasn’t a voracious reader, though I wished to be.

I intentionally don’t offer full reviews here. Each book is met with a single line.  Not critique, but a witness.  A trace of what lingered, what stretched me, what asked to be held with care. Together, the list becomes an altar of racialized names and voices I chose to listen to. One that eventually guided me toward the path that gave birth to Kailash Yoga and Ayurveda, rooted in spirit, ancestry, and shared lineage in the Global Majority.