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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.46 — 992,444 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.37 — 139,462 ratings — published 2018
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.88 — 488,607 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 — 666,567 ratings — published 2012
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,635 ratings — published 2020
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 149 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.17 — 88,982 ratings — published 2019
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 191,108 ratings — published 2021
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,953 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.23 — 108,306 ratings — published 2020
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.07 — 42,957 ratings — published 2020
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.68 — 54,978 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.11 — 247,145 ratings — published 2018
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.26 — 99,970 ratings — published 2019
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,727 ratings — published 2016
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 84,345 ratings — published 2017
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.79 — 204,194 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 354,606 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,252 ratings — published 2007
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.67 — 420,827 ratings — published 2020
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,500 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 — 1,029,775 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.13 — 837,757 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 — 53,818 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,887 ratings — published 2020
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.25 — 133,815 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,476 ratings — published 2016
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.81 — 180,463 ratings — published 2019
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,086 ratings — published 2020
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,439 ratings — published 2015
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.17 — 436,857 ratings — published 2018
American Born Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.88 — 100,438 ratings — published 2006
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.85 — 79,117 ratings — published 2015
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.98 — 216,543 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.78 — 568,602 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,468 ratings — published 2013
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,363 ratings — published 2019
The Henna Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.92 — 30,733 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,200 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 — 847,488 ratings — published 2017
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.23 — 36,459 ratings — published 2018
More Happy Than Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,740 ratings — published 2015
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 179,075 ratings — published 2020
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.80 — 166,693 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.28 — 740,973 ratings — published 1982
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.49 — 784,948 ratings — published 2016
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.00 — 108,965 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 — 78,212 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 261,589 ratings — published 1979
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,423,674 ratings — published 2003
“I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak.”
― Furia
― Furia
“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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