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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as poc)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,041,916 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 293,581 ratings — published 1979
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,049 ratings — published 1982
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as poc)
avg rating 4.10 — 258,669 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as poc)
avg rating 4.11 — 882,606 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as poc)
avg rating 4.47 — 427,350 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as poc)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,774 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 — 693,301 ratings — published 2012
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as poc)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,096 ratings — published 1987
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as poc)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,694 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as poc)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,044 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as poc)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,057 ratings — published 1937
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as poc)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,949 ratings — published 1993
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,739 ratings — published 2013
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as poc)
avg rating 3.77 — 588,805 ratings — published 2019
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as poc)
avg rating 3.78 — 212,742 ratings — published 2019
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as poc)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,991 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as poc)
avg rating 4.30 — 597,380 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,369 ratings — published 2015
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,240,800 ratings — published 2018
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.20 — 67,780 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.29 — 202,993 ratings — published 2020
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as poc)
avg rating 4.14 — 321,832 ratings — published 1970
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 120 times as poc)
avg rating 4.16 — 90,721 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as poc)
avg rating 3.86 — 512,931 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as poc)
avg rating 4.15 — 547,181 ratings — published 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as poc)
avg rating 3.63 — 378,104 ratings — published 2018
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as poc)
avg rating 3.95 — 364,621 ratings — published 2016
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poc)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,730 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as poc)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,332 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as poc)
avg rating 3.99 — 441,827 ratings — published 2019
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as poc)
avg rating 4.23 — 112,226 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as poc)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,160,932 ratings — published 2023
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as poc)
avg rating 4.34 — 688,285 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as poc)
avg rating 4.06 — 458,915 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poc)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,656 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as poc)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,621 ratings — published 1958
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as poc)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,604,728 ratings — published 2003
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as poc)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,169 ratings — published 2019
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 — 1,100,049 ratings — published 2014
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as poc)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,143 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as poc)
avg rating 4.22 — 644,984 ratings — published 2021
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as poc)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,068 ratings — published 2017
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as poc)
avg rating 4.01 — 114,580 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as poc)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,342 ratings — published 2010
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 4.18 — 128,702 ratings — published 2021
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 3.68 — 55,349 ratings — published 2017
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as poc)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,556 ratings — published 2020
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 94 times as poc)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,890 ratings — published 2020
“Who you have feelings for—that is not a choice. Feelings happen
whether you want them to or not. But love isn’t a feeling; it’s the act of planting
a seed and putting in the time and care it needs to grow. It demands hard work
and renewal to survive. It demands commitment. By necessity, it cannot be taken
lightly.”
― It All Comes Back to You
whether you want them to or not. But love isn’t a feeling; it’s the act of planting
a seed and putting in the time and care it needs to grow. It demands hard work
and renewal to survive. It demands commitment. By necessity, it cannot be taken
lightly.”
― It All Comes Back to You
“On the Hunger Games Fan Race fail and the portrayal of POC in fantasy literature:
It is as if the POC in the text are walking around with a great big red sign over them for some editors and it reads I AM NOT A REAL CHARACTER. I AM A PROBLEM YOU MUST DEAL WITH. The white characters are permitted to saunter about with their physical descriptions hanging out all over the place, but best not make mention of dark skin or woolly/curly hair or dark eyes (Unless, of course, that character is white. None of my white-skinned dark-eyed characters had any problem being described as such. And I’m pretty sure that Sól’s curly hair never gave anyone a single pause for thought.) As I said, I understand the desire not to define a POC simply by their physical attributes, and I understand cutting physical descriptions if no other character is described physically – but pussyfooting about in this manner with POC is doing nothing but white wash the characters themselves. It’s already much too hard to get readers to latch onto the fact that some characters may not be caucasian, why must we dance about their physical description as if it were some kind of shameful dirty little secret. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the way homosexuality used to only ever be hinted at in texts. It was up to the reader to ‘read between the lines’ or ‘its there if you look for it’ and all that total bullshit which used to be the norm.”
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It is as if the POC in the text are walking around with a great big red sign over them for some editors and it reads I AM NOT A REAL CHARACTER. I AM A PROBLEM YOU MUST DEAL WITH. The white characters are permitted to saunter about with their physical descriptions hanging out all over the place, but best not make mention of dark skin or woolly/curly hair or dark eyes (Unless, of course, that character is white. None of my white-skinned dark-eyed characters had any problem being described as such. And I’m pretty sure that Sól’s curly hair never gave anyone a single pause for thought.) As I said, I understand the desire not to define a POC simply by their physical attributes, and I understand cutting physical descriptions if no other character is described physically – but pussyfooting about in this manner with POC is doing nothing but white wash the characters themselves. It’s already much too hard to get readers to latch onto the fact that some characters may not be caucasian, why must we dance about their physical description as if it were some kind of shameful dirty little secret. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the way homosexuality used to only ever be hinted at in texts. It was up to the reader to ‘read between the lines’ or ‘its there if you look for it’ and all that total bullshit which used to be the norm.”
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