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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.45 — 996,484 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.37 — 140,093 ratings — published 2018
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.87 — 490,957 ratings — published 2018
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 155 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.29 — 668,769 ratings — published 2012
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.24 — 106,502 ratings — published 2020
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 149 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.17 — 89,198 ratings — published 2019
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 192,819 ratings — published 2021
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.22 — 66,141 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.22 — 108,669 ratings — published 2020
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,020 ratings — published 2020
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.68 — 55,033 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.11 — 248,105 ratings — published 2018
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,120 ratings — published 2019
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,791 ratings — published 2016
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 84,562 ratings — published 2017
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.79 — 205,028 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 355,474 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,892 ratings — published 2007
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.67 — 425,945 ratings — published 2020
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,650 ratings — published 2020
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,035,922 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.12 — 841,856 ratings — published 2020
I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.15 — 54,078 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,318 ratings — published 2020
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,595 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.47 — 393,517 ratings — published 2016
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.81 — 181,108 ratings — published 2019
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,548 ratings — published 2015
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.37 — 907,797 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.17 — 448,594 ratings — published 2018
American Born Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.88 — 100,753 ratings — published 2006
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,443 ratings — published 2015
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 218,310 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.77 — 570,511 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 406,538 ratings — published 2013
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,449 ratings — published 2019
The Henna Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.92 — 30,846 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,517 ratings — published 2015
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.75 — 851,840 ratings — published 2017
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.23 — 36,601 ratings — published 2018
More Happy Than Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,891 ratings — published 2015
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 181,849 ratings — published 2020
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.80 — 167,620 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,701 ratings — published 1982
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.49 — 788,559 ratings — published 2016
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.00 — 109,329 ratings — published 2020
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
History Is All You Left Me (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,477 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 263,976 ratings — published 1979
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,438,172 ratings — published 2003
“Re-examine all you have been told,' Whitman tells us, 'and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.' Full disclosure: what insults my soul is the idea—popular in the culture just now, and presented in widely variant degrees of complexity—that we can and should write only about people who are fundamentally 'like' us: racially, sexually, genetically, nationally, politically, personally. That only an intimate authorial autobiographical connection with a character can be the rightful basis of a fiction. I do not believe that. I could not have written a single one of my books if I did. But I feel no sense of triumph in my apostasy. It might well be that we simply don’t want or need novels like mine anymore, or any of the kinds of fictions that, in order to exist, must fundamentally disagree with the new theory of 'likeness.' It may be that the whole category of what we used to call fiction is becoming lost to us. And if enough people turn from the concept of fiction as it was once understood, then fighting this transformation will be like going to war against the neologism 'impactful' or mourning the loss of the modal verb 'shall.' As it is with language, so it goes with culture: what is not used or wanted dies. What is needed blooms and spreads.”
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“The girl Diego said he loved was the strong one, the winning Camila, the one with a future she was forging for herself… If he rescued me, if I quit for him. I wouldn’t be the girl he loved. I wouldn’t be myself.”
― Furia
― Furia
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