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No Heaven for Good Boys
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Keisha Bush (Goodreads Author)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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The Color Purple
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 118,778 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 996,664 ratings
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Sincerely, Confusingly, Yours
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Hailey Gonzales (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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Transcendent Kingdom
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 160,150 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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Mikki Kendall (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 61,967 ratings
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
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Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)
4.23 avg rating — 9,290 ratings
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The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 842,101 ratings
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The Color Purple
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The Fire Next Time
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 438,683 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Convenience Store Woman
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Wahala
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Nikki May (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 17,831 ratings
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Take Me to Your Nerdy Leader (Bowden Anime Club #1)
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Hailey Gonzales (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 119,821 ratings
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Just Mercy
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The Bluest Eye
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Between the World and Me
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Grotesque
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Luster
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Raven Leilani (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 109,426 ratings
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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The Mothers
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 127,657 ratings
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Memorial
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Americanah
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The Sellout
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Thick: And Other Essays
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Tressie McMillan Cottom (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 18,311 ratings
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,295,230 ratings
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This Is How You Lose Her
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Giovanni’s Room
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Kindred
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Real World
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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4.38 avg rating — 72,643 ratings
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Clap When You Land
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 108,688 ratings
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White Is for Witching
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 13,035 ratings
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Opposite of Always
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Justin A. Reynolds (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 27,581 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 299,662 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,175,101 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,757 ratings
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If I Had Your Face
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Frances Cha (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 57,647 ratings
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The Night Watchman
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 384,499 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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Early Departures
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Justin A. Reynolds (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
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Shiloh and Dande the Lion: Embrace diversity, accept others, and courageously be yourself!
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A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
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Brittany K. Barnett (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 6,027 ratings
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Sister Mother Warrior
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Vanessa Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Everything's Fine
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Songs of Irie
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Asha Ashanti Bromfield (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 714 ratings
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In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 10,821 ratings
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The Love Match
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Priyanka Taslim (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
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Counting Down with You
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Tashie Bhuiyan (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 19,593 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 158,328 ratings
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Everything is Not Enough
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
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Always Be My Bibi
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Priyanka Taslim (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 104 ratings
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A Show for Two
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Tashie Bhuiyan (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 5,673 ratings
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Balancing Act (The Heights #1)
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Paula Chase (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
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My Government Means to Kill Me
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Rasheed Newson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 6,448 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
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Alicia Elliott (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10,376 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
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Stay with My Heart
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Tashie Bhuiyan (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
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Great Black Hope
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Rob Franklin (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,362 ratings
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 118,302 ratings
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The Last Final Girl
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Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.11 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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I’ll Pretend You’re Mine
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Tashie Bhuiyan (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Right as Rain
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Tashie Bhuiyan (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Boy, Snow, Bird
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 30,899 ratings
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
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Naomi Jackson (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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Corregidora
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 672,492 ratings
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Finna
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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The Incendiaries
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R.O. Kwon (Goodreads Author)
3.21 avg rating — 25,166 ratings
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
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Janet Mock (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 16,554 ratings
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Goodbye, Vitamin
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Rachel Khong (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 29,643 ratings
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Girl, Woman, Other
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American Spy
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Lauren Wilkinson (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 30,461 ratings
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All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost
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Lan Samantha Chang (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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All Boys Aren’t Blue
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The Water Dancer
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
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Swing Time
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The Death of Vivek Oji
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Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
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tori
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