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[ATY 2024] BIPOC Main Character
Around the Year in 52 Books is a Goodreads group that creates a user-generated reading challenge each year. This listopia is dedicated to one of our 2024 prompts. Please do not vote on these lists unless you are participating in our reading challenge!
Prompt: A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
Prompt: A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,975,425 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 740,965 ratings
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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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Angeline Boulley (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 191,095 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,341,389 ratings
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The Island of Sea Women
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 158,210 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 992,430 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 261,580 ratings
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 390,463 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,695,614 ratings
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 383,849 ratings
score: 815,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,168,817 ratings
score: 811,
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 178,327 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 296,373 ratings
score: 760,
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 321,590 ratings
score: 759,
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 336,834 ratings
score: 746,
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 436,540 ratings
score: 705,
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 420,804 ratings
score: 697,
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 282,248 ratings
score: 686,
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Deacon King Kong
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 78,657 ratings
score: 679,
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 791,306 ratings
score: 670,
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 300,867 ratings
score: 647,
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There There
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Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 216,536 ratings
score: 644,
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 256,321 ratings
score: 629,
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The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 837,733 ratings
score: 625,
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 75,381 ratings
score: 622,
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 404,461 ratings
score: 616,
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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3.64 avg rating — 67,262 ratings
score: 608,
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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4.05 avg rating — 92,846 ratings
score: 598,
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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 27,147 ratings
score: 585,
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Girl, Woman, Other
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4.26 avg rating — 258,794 ratings
score: 583,
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Exit West
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3.74 avg rating — 148,766 ratings
score: 577,
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 379,835 ratings
score: 576,
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 572,016 ratings
score: 573,
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Yellowface
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 936,928 ratings
score: 555,
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,139 ratings
score: 544,
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Finding Me
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4.54 avg rating — 168,760 ratings
score: 525,
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The Other Black Girl
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Zakiya Dalila Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 82,411 ratings
score: 521,
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6 people voted
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The Sentence
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3.94 avg rating — 80,533 ratings
score: 521,
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.12 avg rating — 132,582 ratings
score: 521,
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology #1)
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Sue Lynn Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 121,665 ratings
score: 491,
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5 people voted
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 161,284 ratings
score: 478,
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Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
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Mia P. Manansala (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 75,540 ratings
score: 473,
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 664,557 ratings
score: 467,
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 192,919 ratings
score: 455,
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 56,887 ratings
score: 449,
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 129,167 ratings
score: 446,
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Red at the Bone
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 82,789 ratings
score: 433,
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An American Marriage
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 381,102 ratings
score: 431,
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Silver Sparrow
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 45,317 ratings
score: 430,
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Horse
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 193,548 ratings
score: 430,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 480,133 ratings
score: 416,
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The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
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Sujata Massey (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 32,740 ratings
score: 413,
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5 people voted
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The Color of Water
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 132,163 ratings
score: 393,
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Black Cake
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4.09 avg rating — 219,327 ratings
score: 393,
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The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
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Hyeonseo Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 99,599 ratings
score: 386,
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The Round House
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3.98 avg rating — 122,865 ratings
score: 386,
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 312,599 ratings
score: 385,
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 50,806 ratings
score: 380,
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Take My Hand
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 104,332 ratings
score: 377,
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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4.51 avg rating — 40,514 ratings
score: 369,
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The Mountains Sing
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 58,825 ratings
score: 365,
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The Violin Conspiracy
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4.11 avg rating — 65,252 ratings
score: 361,
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The Death of Vivek Oji
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Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 66,762 ratings
score: 360,
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Stöld
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4.03 avg rating — 15,927 ratings
score: 358,
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How High We Go in the Dark
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Sequoia Nagamatsu (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 68,189 ratings
score: 350,
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 92,136 ratings
score: 348,
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Un drum lung până jos
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4.25 avg rating — 133,812 ratings
score: 346,
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
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Talia Hibbert (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 204,187 ratings
score: 343,
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4 people voted
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The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
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Sujata Massey (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 12,287 ratings
score: 341,
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 670,683 ratings
score: 336,
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 118,601 ratings
score: 336,
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.16 avg rating — 614,466 ratings
score: 334,
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 146,413 ratings
score: 333,
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The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,063 ratings
score: 327,
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The Marriage Game (Marriage Game, #1)
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Sara Desai (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 21,574 ratings
score: 313,
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China Dolls
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 38,921 ratings
score: 311,
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The Night Watchman
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4.09 avg rating — 89,755 ratings
score: 307,
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,432 ratings
score: 300,
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 199,533 ratings
score: 298,
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The Map of Salt and Stars
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Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 20,240 ratings
score: 296,
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Razorblade Tears
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S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 136,408 ratings
score: 296,
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Song Yet Sung
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 6,044 ratings
score: 295,
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Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
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Talia Hibbert (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 108,965 ratings
score: 291,
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Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)
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S. Jae-Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 3,764 ratings
score: 291,
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 14,802 ratings
score: 287,
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Queenie
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Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 155,280 ratings
score: 287,
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The Deep Sky
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Yume Kitasei (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 11,440 ratings
score: 286,
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Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 78,985 ratings
score: 285,
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The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
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Jasmine Guillory (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 161,169 ratings
score: 284,
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The Wedding
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3.96 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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People Person
by
Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16,891 ratings
score: 279,
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 84,756 ratings
score: 279,
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 90,546 ratings
score: 278,
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The Downstairs Girl
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Stacey Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 40,202 ratings
score: 275,
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The Covenant of Water
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 288,797 ratings
score: 273,
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Symphony of Secrets
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4.26 avg rating — 17,537 ratings
score: 265,
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
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4.05 avg rating — 103,480 ratings
score: 261,
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 189,891 ratings
score: 260,
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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