Sign in with Facebook
200 books
—
548 voters
Poc Books
Showing 1-50 of 30,179
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as poc)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,055 ratings — published 2017
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,387 ratings — published 1979
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 763,181 ratings — published 1982
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 180 times as poc)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,464 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as poc)
avg rating 4.12 — 871,669 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as poc)
avg rating 4.47 — 416,083 ratings — published 2016
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 684,826 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as poc)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,053 ratings — published 2015
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as poc)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,009 ratings — published 1987
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 145 times as poc)
avg rating 4.36 — 144,079 ratings — published 2018
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as poc)
avg rating 3.66 — 453,950 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as poc)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,126 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as poc)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,808 ratings — published 2013
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as poc)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,564 ratings — published 2019
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as poc)
avg rating 4.19 — 280,274 ratings — published 1993
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as poc)
avg rating 4.28 — 344,638 ratings — published 2015
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as poc)
avg rating 3.78 — 210,751 ratings — published 2019
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as poc)
avg rating 4.22 — 110,934 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as poc)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,402 ratings — published 1969
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,221,133 ratings — published 2018
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poc)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,205 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as poc)
avg rating 4.29 — 197,915 ratings — published 2020
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 119 times as poc)
avg rating 4.16 — 90,249 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as poc)
avg rating 4.16 — 518,183 ratings — published 2018
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as poc)
avg rating 3.87 — 506,070 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as poc)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,529 ratings — published 1970
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poc)
avg rating 4.00 — 426,621 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poc)
avg rating 3.63 — 366,098 ratings — published 2018
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poc)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,259 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poc)
avg rating 3.95 — 361,778 ratings — published 2016
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as poc)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,577 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as poc)
avg rating 4.49 — 826,200 ratings — published 2016
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as poc)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,102,050 ratings — published 2023
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as poc)
avg rating 4.34 — 656,900 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as poc)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,515 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as poc)
avg rating 4.05 — 287,081 ratings — published 2007
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as poc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,081,233 ratings — published 2014
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as poc)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,723 ratings — published 1958
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as poc)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,550,919 ratings — published 2003
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as poc)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,557 ratings — published 2019
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as poc)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,573 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as poc)
avg rating 4.23 — 624,483 ratings — published 2021
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as poc)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,441 ratings — published 2017
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as poc)
avg rating 4.01 — 112,374 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 — 119,067 ratings — published 2010
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,351 ratings — published 2020
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,254,399 ratings — published 2019
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,229 ratings — published 2021
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as poc)
avg rating 3.68 — 55,235 ratings — published 2017
“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.”
―
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.”
―
“I am treacherous with old magic
and the noon’s new fury
with all your wide futures
promised
I am
woman
and not white.”
―
and the noon’s new fury
with all your wide futures
promised
I am
woman
and not white.”
―
