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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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Washington Black
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3.95 avg rating — 71,398 ratings
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Julie (Julie of the Wolves, #2)
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The Night Tiger
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Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 65,723 ratings
score: 163,
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Wandering Stars
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Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 33,798 ratings
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Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9)
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4.07 avg rating — 10,139 ratings
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Happiness
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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4.37 avg rating — 100,131 ratings
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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
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3.88 avg rating — 30,494 ratings
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Piecing Me Together
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4.08 avg rating — 26,819 ratings
score: 159,
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Winter Counts
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 22,787 ratings
score: 158,
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Light from Uncommon Stars
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Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 37,341 ratings
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Mullumbimby
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3.90 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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4.43 avg rating — 46,965 ratings
score: 156,
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
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Lola Shoneyin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 15,685 ratings
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Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)
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Alexia Gordon (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
score: 154,
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Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Baker Street Mystery, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 9,750 ratings
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 118,028 ratings
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My Lord What A Morning
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3.85 avg rating — 99 ratings
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All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)
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3.97 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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Midnight at the Dragon Café
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3.67 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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In Search of a Prince (In Search of a Prince, #1)
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Toni Shiloh (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 192,802 ratings
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River Spirit
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Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
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Ayesha at Last
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Uzma Jalaluddin (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 26,937 ratings
score: 148,
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LaRose
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3.91 avg rating — 24,434 ratings
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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Cristina Henríquez (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 45,713 ratings
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The Space Between Us
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4.03 avg rating — 52,430 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.15 avg rating — 124,761 ratings
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Betty
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Tiffany McDaniel (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 54,248 ratings
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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 27,706 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 116,408 ratings
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Passing
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3.92 avg rating — 77,505 ratings
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Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1)
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Vivien Chien (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 13,358 ratings
score: 143,
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Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
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4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
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4.20 avg rating — 23,805 ratings
score: 141,
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Five Little Indians
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Michelle Good (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 44,760 ratings
score: 140,
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Jin-Ling's Two Left Feet
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Whale Rider
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3.84 avg rating — 12,040 ratings
score: 137,
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Lone Women
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3.70 avg rating — 35,005 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 79,037 ratings
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Song of the Lion (Leaphorn & Chee, #21)
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Anne Hillerman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 9,874 ratings
score: 136,
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The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
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3.78 avg rating — 61,008 ratings
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
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3.83 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 924,765 ratings
score: 134,
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Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
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Bernice L. McFadden (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
score: 133,
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Swing Time
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3.56 avg rating — 76,532 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 308,403 ratings
score: 132,
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Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 29,394 ratings
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| 248 |
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This Tender Land
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William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 213,091 ratings
score: 131,
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Sweet Bean Paste
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4.06 avg rating — 68,751 ratings
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Sula
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4.05 avg rating — 118,538 ratings
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Ragtime
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3.89 avg rating — 45,844 ratings
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Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
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Justina Ireland (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 35,582 ratings
score: 129,
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 28,143 ratings
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How to Say Babylon
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4.44 avg rating — 29,076 ratings
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Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family
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Jennifer Lin (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,155 ratings
score: 127,
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The Beet Queen
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3.87 avg rating — 14,505 ratings
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Song of a Captive Bird
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Jasmin Darznik (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 6,076 ratings
score: 126,
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| 260 |
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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
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Waubgeshig Rice (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 40,016 ratings
score: 122,
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The Ways of White Folks
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4.46 avg rating — 5,435 ratings
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The Solace of Water
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Elizabeth Byler Younts (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
score: 120,
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
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Jenifer Lewis (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 7,586 ratings
score: 119,
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Memphis
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Tara M. Stringfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 38,033 ratings
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Songs of Willow Frost
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 21,619 ratings
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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 107,706 ratings
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The Resisters
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Gish Jen (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 4,197 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
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3.78 avg rating — 568,533 ratings
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Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 67,926 ratings
score: 115,
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Even As We Breathe
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3.72 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
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The Woman in the Library
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Sulari Gentill (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 84,200 ratings
score: 114,
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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
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Nadia Hashimi (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 51,661 ratings
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Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
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Nekesa Afia (Goodreads Author)
3.21 avg rating — 6,027 ratings
score: 111,
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 28,659 ratings
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Babel
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 414,469 ratings
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The Fox Wife
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Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 24,881 ratings
score: 108,
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Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)
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Joan He (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
score: 106,
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Night Angels
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Weina Dai Randel (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 16,952 ratings
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All My Rage
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Sabaa Tahir (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 61,842 ratings
score: 104,
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Everything Here Is Beautiful
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Mira T. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 20,042 ratings
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Ru
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3.82 avg rating — 24,841 ratings
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The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)
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Jesse Q. Sutanto (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 10,438 ratings
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The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)
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Elizabeth Lim (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 33,804 ratings
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The Monsters We Defy
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Leslye Penelope (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 6,108 ratings
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Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 145,153 ratings
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Crook Manifesto
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 19,799 ratings
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The Eternal Audience of One
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3.80 avg rating — 893 ratings
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Her Name Is Knight (Nena Knight, #1)
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Yasmin Angoe (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 13,264 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 346,782 ratings
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Ami (Guardians of Dawn, #2)
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S. Jae-Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 538 ratings
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White Eagle's Legacy: An Enticingly Suspenseful Contemporary Native American Romance
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Cynthia Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Monsters within Men
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T.J. Rose (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 790 ratings
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, #1)
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Roseanne A. Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 20,554 ratings
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The Bone People
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4.04 avg rating — 23,685 ratings
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Blessing of the Lost Girls (Joanna Brady #20; Walker Family #6)
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J.A. Jance (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 7,591 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 81,205 ratings
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Die flüsternden Seelen
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3.39 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Dark Energy
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Robison Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Lakewood
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