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Phenderson Djéli Clark is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth. You can find him on Twitter at @pdjeliclark and his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.

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	Ring Shout 3.96 avg rating — 50,790 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34,721 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,232 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3) 3.97 avg rating — 17,443 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black God's Drums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,492 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Cat Tail Assassins 3.85 avg rating — 8,401 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel of Khan el-Khalili (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.2) 3.94 avg rating — 3,396 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1) 3.92 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington 4.34 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fantasy's Othering Fetish by P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author), Phenderson Djèlí Clark, Daniel José Older (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.40 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”
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“There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth bed down, searching for his face. But with no eyes, he can't see. Lie, he sneaky. He snatch up Truth's face and run off! Zip! Now Lie go around wearing Truth's face, fooling everybody he meet.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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“Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way.”
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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

5 votes, 15.2%

The Housemaid

by Freida McFadden

5 votes, 15.2%

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by James McBride

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by Geraldine Brooks

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Westering Women

by Sandra Dallas

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Finding Me

by Viola Davis

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The Other Princess

by Denny S. Bryce

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One Puzzling Afternoon

by Emily Critchley

1 vote, 3.0%

A Bakery in Paris

by Aimie K. Runyan

1 vote, 3.0%

The Leftover Woman

by Jean Kwok

0 votes, 0.0%

A Master of Djinn

by P. Djèlí Clark

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by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

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