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This is a list of avant-garde, weird, hybrid, genre-bending, postmodern, and slipstream writing by writers of color.
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 104,536 ratings
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
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Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
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Skin Folk
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The Ballad of Black Tom
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Dictee
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Silverfish
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Spirits Abroad
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Zen Cho (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)
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Neon Lights and Plane Tickets: Sci-Fi Poetic Prose Collection
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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transtrender
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4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The World Doesn't Require You
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Rion Amilcar Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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In the Dream House
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Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 157,328 ratings
score: 99,
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List Of Consonants
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4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Incalculable Loss
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Soft Science
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3.91 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
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Potted Meat
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4.46 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Water & Power
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4.55 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Mumbo Jumbo
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3.85 avg rating — 4,868 ratings
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
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3.79 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Anarchist's Blac Book of Poetry
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4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Professional Donor
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Stereo(TYPE) (Winner of the 2017 Sawtooth Poetry Prize)
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4.14 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Scar On / Scar Off
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Jennifer Maritza McCauley (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 89,
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Greater Grave
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score: 88,
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Buckskin Cocaine
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Erika T. Wurth (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 146 ratings
score: 87,
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Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,794 ratings
score: 86,
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Cane
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3.82 avg rating — 11,462 ratings
score: 85,
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Never Read
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 84,
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 14,935 ratings
score: 83,
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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Mira Jacob (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 26,417 ratings
score: 81,
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The Only Good Indians
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Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 109,375 ratings
score: 80,
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City Eclogue
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4.18 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 77,
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Atmosphere Conditions
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4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
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3.86 avg rating — 850 ratings
score: 75,
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Afropessimism
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4.24 avg rating — 906 ratings
score: 74,
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constellations gathered along the ecliptic
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Habitat Threshold
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4.25 avg rating — 228 ratings
score: 72,
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Crazy Brave
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Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 7,742 ratings
score: 71,
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Yes Thing No Thing
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The All-Union Day of The Shock Worker
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3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Black Automaton (National Poetry Series Books (Paperback))
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4.26 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 68,
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Patter
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4.24 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 67,
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Mess And Mess And
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4.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
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Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 65,
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Someone Took They Tongues
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4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Yellow House
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Chiwan Choi (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 63,
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Olio
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4.55 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF DECOMPOSITION / RE-COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION: A POE AND STEIN MASH-UP
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score: 61,
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Words On Edge
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven
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4.11 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Towards the Primeval Lightning Field
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4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews and a Lecture 1991-2007
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4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose (Signature Series, 8)
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Teducation: Selected Poems
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
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4.58 avg rating — 140 ratings
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On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
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4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Aime Cesaire, The Collected Poetry
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Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965-2000
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Adrian Piper: A Reader
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Cornelia Butler (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965–2016
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Christophe Cherix (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Sleeping With the Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Sheep Machine
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Vi Khi Nao (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Ants
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4.32 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Cat Town
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3.84 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader
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Steamfunk!
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4.24 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The City: A Cyberfunk Anthology
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Let's Play White
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Chesya Burke (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Waiting on a Bright Moon
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J.Y. Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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The Deep
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Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 39,418 ratings
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Houses
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Crawlspace
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, said the shotgun to the head.
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Rue du Retour
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Thresholes
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Lara Mimosa Montes (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Under the Knife
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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Black Power: The Superhero Anthology
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Balogun Ojetade (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Rococoa
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Infinitum
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A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
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P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author)
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Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
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Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
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Camille T. Dungy (Editor)
4.60 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Ken Liu (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 37,809 ratings
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Boy with Thorn
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The Disparities
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The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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EMIGRE
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Place-Discipline (Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest)
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Bone Confetti
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Apex Magazine, Issue 99 August 2017
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Storm of Locusts (The Sixth World, #2)
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Rebecca Roanhorse (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11,298 ratings
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