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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as poc)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,003 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 297,622 ratings — published 1979
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 775,611 ratings — published 1982
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as poc)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,899 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 887,260 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as poc)
avg rating 4.46 — 431,736 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as poc)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,396 ratings — published 2015
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 696,508 ratings — published 2012
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as poc)
avg rating 4.36 — 146,542 ratings — published 2018
Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 517,696 ratings — published 1987
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as poc)
avg rating 3.66 — 472,253 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as poc)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,246 ratings — published 1937
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as poc)
avg rating 4.18 — 301,491 ratings — published 1993
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,996 ratings — published 2013
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as poc)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,582 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as poc)
avg rating 3.78 — 213,678 ratings — published 2019
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as poc)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,402 ratings — published 1969
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as poc)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,461 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 356,636 ratings — published 2015
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 204,605 ratings — published 2020
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,250,884 ratings — published 2018
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as poc)
avg rating 4.20 — 67,926 ratings — published 2020
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 327,873 ratings — published 1970
With the Fire on High (ebook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 90,974 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as poc)
avg rating 4.15 — 558,068 ratings — published 2018
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 515,743 ratings — published 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 384,474 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as poc)
avg rating 4.48 — 853,700 ratings — published 2016
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 365,602 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as poc)
avg rating 3.99 — 447,870 ratings — published 2019
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as poc)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,921 ratings — published 2019
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as poc)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,183,599 ratings — published 2023
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as poc)
avg rating 4.23 — 113,171 ratings — published 2020
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as poc)
avg rating 4.34 — 701,789 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as poc)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,067 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poc)
avg rating 4.05 — 289,411 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as poc)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,118 ratings — published 1958
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,624,788 ratings — published 2003
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as poc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,106,601 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343,050 ratings — published 2012
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as poc)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,569 ratings — published 2019
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as poc)
avg rating 4.22 — 652,421 ratings — published 2021
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as poc)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,299 ratings — published 2017
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as poc)
avg rating 4.00 — 115,305 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as poc)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,805 ratings — published 2010
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 4.18 — 130,371 ratings — published 2021
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 55,365 ratings — published 2017
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 94 times as poc)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,284 ratings — published 2020
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as poc)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,593 ratings — published 2020
“I think it's very dangerous to start censoring what authors should and shouldn't write." I open strong, and this gets some approving murmurs from the crowd. But I still see some skeptical faces, especially from the other Asians present, so I continue. "I'd hate to live in a world where we tell people what they should and shouldn't write based on the color of their skin. I mean, turn what you're saying around and see how it sounds. Can a Black writer not write a novel with a white protagonist? What about everyone who has written about World War Two, and never lived through it? You can critique a work on the grounds of literary quality, and its representations of history—sure. But I see no reason why I shouldn't tackle this subject if I'm willing to do the work. And as you can tell by the text, I did do the work. You can look up my bibliographies. You can do the fact- checking yourself. Meanwhile, I think writing is fundamentally an exercise in empathy. Reading lets us live in someone else's shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller. And as for the question of profit—I mean, should every writer who writes about dark things feel guilty about it? Should creatives not be paid for their work?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“Be yourself. Be over the top. Outlast them. Show them that no amount of fear will ever make you chance who you are.”
― The Insiders
― The Insiders
