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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as woc)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,054 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as woc)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,259 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 761,999 ratings — published 1982
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as woc)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,330,889 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as woc)
avg rating 4.47 — 414,684 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as woc)
avg rating 4.12 — 870,112 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as woc)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,016 ratings — published 2014
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 652,829 ratings — published 2017
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.77 — 582,801 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.63 — 364,710 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,910 ratings — published 2012
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.93 — 391,824 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,332 ratings — published 1937
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,397 ratings — published 1969
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,301 ratings — published 2017
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,218,626 ratings — published 2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,385 ratings — published 2017
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 343,387 ratings — published 2015
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 177,369 ratings — published 2000
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 4.13 — 310,409 ratings — published 1970
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,056 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.19 — 278,391 ratings — published 1993
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,093,576 ratings — published 2023
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 4.23 — 621,357 ratings — published 2021
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 3.95 — 822,202 ratings — published 2014
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 110,837 ratings — published 2020
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.10 — 165,350 ratings — published 2020
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.80 — 107,825 ratings — published 2017
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,905 ratings — published 2016
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.83 — 618,409 ratings — published 2014
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.36 — 143,855 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,280 ratings — published 2018
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.56 — 165,130 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,506 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,743 ratings — published 2014
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.68 — 241,745 ratings — published 1984
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.27 — 234,883 ratings — published 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,785 ratings — published 1984
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.78 — 210,456 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.87 — 505,085 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.67 — 389,990 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,787 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,492 ratings — published 2006
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,527 ratings — published 1981
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,129 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.65 — 415,785 ratings — published 2007
“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
