Much to the distress of readers and writers everywhere, The New York Times’ long- awaited annual summer reading list last week included books by only white authors. Curated by New York Times literary critic Janet Maslin, the list of seventeen books includes Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, Timur Vermes’s Look Who’s Back (a comic novel about Adolf Hitler), Tracy Daugherty’s The Last Love Song (a biography of Joan Didion), and several others, but with nary a book by a person of color.

But it isn’t altogether surprising how un-diverse The New York Times’ list is this year, given that the majority of authors on the list tend to be white. According to Gawker, in 2014, white authors comprised 88% of the list (with the exceptions of Mariano Rivera and Laline Paul on the list); in 2013, white authors comprised 93.7% (with just Kevin Kwan on the list); and in 2012, white authors comprised 90.4% (with just Mindy Kaling on the list).

In response, Gawker writer Jason Parham and The New Inquiry writer Aaron Brady compiled a list of books by people of color to offer much-needed diversity to the public’s reading list. Parham’s list includes Mia Alvar’s In the Country: Stories; Naomi Jackson’s The Star Side of Bird Hill; Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance; Amitov Ghosh’s Flood of Fire; Mat Johnson’s Loving Day; and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me.

Brady’s list includes Ladan Osman’s The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony; Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen; Abdourahman Waberi’s The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper; Elizabeth Alexander’s The Light of the World; Julie Iromuanya’s Mr. and Mrs. Doctor; Alain Mabanckou’s The Lights of Pointe-Noire; Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Investigation; Ivan Vladislavi?’s 101 Detectives; Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness; and Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83.

Brady’s list also includes the literary publication Saraba’s upcoming survival-themed issue; the publication KUT, which features writing by people of color; and a chapbook of poetry by African poets edited by Kwame Dawes called Eight New-Generation African Poets.

In addition, Book Riot writer Liberty Hardy compiled an alternative list of summer reading, contending that The New York Times’ list and NPR’s list “would have you believe that only white people are writing books worthy of summer reading.”

According to Capital New York, Maslin will be stepping down from her role as book critic this summer, and the New York Observer has more than a few ideas as to who should take over her position.