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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as woc)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,726 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as woc)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,018,835 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,099 ratings — published 1982
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as woc)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,322,004 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as woc)
avg rating 4.47 — 408,662 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as woc)
avg rating 4.12 — 862,715 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as woc)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,256 ratings — published 2014
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as woc)
avg rating 3.98 — 495,229 ratings — published 1987
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 637,598 ratings — published 2017
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.77 — 579,595 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.64 — 358,077 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,054 ratings — published 2012
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.99 — 389,828 ratings — published 1937
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,807 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.93 — 387,824 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.30 — 585,314 ratings — published 1969
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,446 ratings — published 2017
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,207,859 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 338,305 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as woc)
avg rating 4.13 — 305,635 ratings — published 1970
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 176,116 ratings — published 2000
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,061,058 ratings — published 2023
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,431 ratings — published 2018
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 3.95 — 815,173 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.19 — 270,525 ratings — published 1993
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 4.23 — 609,363 ratings — published 2021
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 3.80 — 106,976 ratings — published 2017
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,272 ratings — published 2016
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 110,217 ratings — published 2020
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,813 ratings — published 2020
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.83 — 614,616 ratings — published 2014
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,184 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,471 ratings — published 2014
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.68 — 237,660 ratings — published 1984
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,380 ratings — published 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,305 ratings — published 1984
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,888 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,013 ratings — published 2018
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.56 — 164,253 ratings — published 2018
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.78 — 208,922 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.87 — 501,245 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.67 — 381,032 ratings — published 2016
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 207,244 ratings — published 1999
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 144,812 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 185,313 ratings — published 2006
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,973 ratings — published 1981
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.97 — 711,398 ratings — published 1989
“We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.”
― Nehanda
― Nehanda
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from the
gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps
petals of water from her skin. At once,
clouds begin to sob for such beauty.
Clothing drops like leaves.
"No one makes poetry,my Mme.
Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”
I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with
our souls.”
Desire illuminates the dark manuscript
of our skin with beetles and butterflies.
After the lightning and rain has ceased,
after the lightning and rain of lovemaking
has ceased, Selah will dive again into the
sunflower-open river.”
― Whylah Falls
gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps
petals of water from her skin. At once,
clouds begin to sob for such beauty.
Clothing drops like leaves.
"No one makes poetry,my Mme.
Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”
I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with
our souls.”
Desire illuminates the dark manuscript
of our skin with beetles and butterflies.
After the lightning and rain has ceased,
after the lightning and rain of lovemaking
has ceased, Selah will dive again into the
sunflower-open river.”
― Whylah Falls
