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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as white-savior)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,087,515 ratings — published 2009
Lady in the Lake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.49 — 35,882 ratings — published 2019
Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting wounded children without losing your self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.27 — 269 ratings — published
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,137 ratings — published 2025
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.96 — 64,963 ratings — published 2025
Juliet Takes a Breath (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,453 ratings — published 2020
Juliet Takes a Breath (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,308 ratings — published 2016
Promise Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,363 ratings — published 2023
Washington Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,434 ratings — published 2018
Our Woman in Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,152 ratings — published 2021
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,151,796 ratings — published 2023
Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.29 — 61,807 ratings — published 2004
Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.26 — 68,327 ratings — published 2003
The First Ladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.03 — 60,365 ratings — published 2023
Into the Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,455 ratings — published 2023
Mascot (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,262 ratings — published 2023
The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.80 — 47,692 ratings — published 2020
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,295 ratings — published 2015
Wade in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,195 ratings — published 2023
Absolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.74 — 31,037 ratings — published 2023
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.94 — 116,106 ratings — published 2014
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,562 ratings — published 1998
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,348,632 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,094,773 ratings — published 1960
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.83 — 625,409 ratings — published 2014
A Hope Divided (The Loyal League, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,352 ratings — published 2017
We Are All Dots: A Big Plan for a Better World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.17 — 215 ratings — published
A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,469 ratings — published 2017
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.82 — 26,251 ratings — published 2016
The Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,222 ratings — published 2018
Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as white-savior)
avg rating 4.05 — 67,916 ratings — published 2011
“There’s an impulsive desire to fix, to be the hero of the story, to swoop in and rescue and, for some, it also comes from a place of superiority and/or a desire to be forgiven. It feeds into something called the “White Saviour Industrial Complex” – a term first coined by Harvard professor and novelist Teju Cole in 2012.”
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“You're not the first black woman Alex has hired to work for her family, and you probably won't be the last.'
'Okay...?' Emira sat down. She didn't mean to sound flippant, but she doubted that Kelley could really tell her anything she didn't already know. Emira had met several 'Mrs. Chamberlains' before...It wasn't that Emira didn't understand the racially charged history that Kelley was alluding to, but she couldn't help but think that if she weren't working for this Mrs. Chamberlain, she'd probably be working for another one.”
― Such a Fun Age
'Okay...?' Emira sat down. She didn't mean to sound flippant, but she doubted that Kelley could really tell her anything she didn't already know. Emira had met several 'Mrs. Chamberlains' before...It wasn't that Emira didn't understand the racially charged history that Kelley was alluding to, but she couldn't help but think that if she weren't working for this Mrs. Chamberlain, she'd probably be working for another one.”
― Such a Fun Age