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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 — 2,975,083 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 — 740,867 ratings
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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
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Angeline Boulley (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 191,036 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,341,304 ratings
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The Island of Sea Women
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 158,117 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 — 992,295 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 261,498 ratings
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 390,359 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 1,695,292 ratings
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 383,813 ratings
score: 815,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,168,604 ratings
score: 811,
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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4.34 avg rating — 178,272 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 296,222 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 — 321,475 ratings
score: 759,
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 336,708 ratings
score: 746,
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 436,456 ratings
score: 705,
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 420,673 ratings
score: 697,
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 282,209 ratings
score: 686,
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8 people voted
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Deacon King Kong
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 78,641 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 — 791,200 ratings
score: 670,
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 300,702 ratings
score: 647,
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There There
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Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 216,473 ratings
score: 644,
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 256,284 ratings
score: 629,
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The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 837,576 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 — 75,362 ratings
score: 622,
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Americanah
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4.31 avg rating — 404,401 ratings
score: 616,
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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3.64 avg rating — 67,255 ratings
score: 608,
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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4.05 avg rating — 92,809 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 — 27,139 ratings
score: 585,
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Girl, Woman, Other
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4.26 avg rating — 258,738 ratings
score: 583,
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Exit West
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3.74 avg rating — 148,748 ratings
score: 577,
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 379,771 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 — 571,921 ratings
score: 573,
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Yellowface
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 936,061 ratings
score: 555,
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6 people voted
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The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 329,107 ratings
score: 544,
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Finding Me
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4.54 avg rating — 168,669 ratings
score: 525,
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The Other Black Girl
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Zakiya Dalila Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 82,403 ratings
score: 521,
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6 people voted
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The Sentence
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3.94 avg rating — 80,513 ratings
score: 521,
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.12 avg rating — 132,568 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 — 121,592 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 — 161,275 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 — 75,519 ratings
score: 473,
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 664,360 ratings
score: 467,
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 192,909 ratings
score: 455,
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 56,881 ratings
score: 449,
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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3.90 avg rating — 129,158 ratings
score: 446,
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Red at the Bone
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 82,783 ratings
score: 433,
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6 people voted
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An American Marriage
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 381,049 ratings
score: 431,
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Silver Sparrow
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 45,312 ratings
score: 430,
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Horse
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 193,426 ratings
score: 430,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 480,048 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 — 32,732 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 — 132,145 ratings
score: 393,
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Black Cake
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4.09 avg rating — 219,262 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 — 99,579 ratings
score: 386,
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The Round House
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3.98 avg rating — 122,850 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 — 312,577 ratings
score: 385,
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 50,788 ratings
score: 380,
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Take My Hand
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 104,288 ratings
score: 377,
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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4.51 avg rating — 40,488 ratings
score: 369,
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The Mountains Sing
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 58,788 ratings
score: 365,
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The Violin Conspiracy
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4.11 avg rating — 65,235 ratings
score: 361,
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The Death of Vivek Oji
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Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 66,744 ratings
score: 360,
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Stöld
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4.03 avg rating — 15,922 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 — 68,166 ratings
score: 350,
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 92,128 ratings
score: 348,
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Un drum lung până jos
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4.25 avg rating — 133,795 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 — 204,156 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 — 12,286 ratings
score: 341,
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Everything, Everything
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 670,628 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 — 118,592 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 — 614,396 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 — 146,384 ratings
score: 333,
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The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31,053 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 — 21,573 ratings
score: 313,
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China Dolls
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 38,911 ratings
score: 311,
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The Night Watchman
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4.09 avg rating — 89,699 ratings
score: 307,
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,428 ratings
score: 300,
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 199,516 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 — 20,235 ratings
score: 296,
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Razorblade Tears
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S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 136,247 ratings
score: 296,
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Song Yet Sung
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 6,043 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 — 108,950 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 — 3,763 ratings
score: 291,
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 14,797 ratings
score: 287,
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Queenie
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Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 155,265 ratings
score: 287,
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The Deep Sky
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Yume Kitasei (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 11,432 ratings
score: 286,
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Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 78,972 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 — 161,142 ratings
score: 284,
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The Wedding
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3.96 avg rating — 6,495 ratings
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People Person
by
Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16,886 ratings
score: 279,
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| 92 |
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 84,693 ratings
score: 279,
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 90,538 ratings
score: 278,
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The Downstairs Girl
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Stacey Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 40,195 ratings
score: 275,
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The Covenant of Water
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 288,567 ratings
score: 273,
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Symphony of Secrets
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4.26 avg rating — 17,521 ratings
score: 265,
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
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4.05 avg rating — 103,365 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 — 189,740 ratings
score: 260,
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| 100 |
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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