Best Books by Women of Color

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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,500 ratings
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Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,279,634 ratings
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Jazz
Jazz 3.90 avg rating β€” 36,225 ratings
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The Activist
The Activist 4.04 avg rating β€” 196 ratings
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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,587 ratings
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The Game of Silence (Birchbark House, #2)
The Game of Silence (Birchbark House, #2) 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,349 ratings
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The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating β€” 54,329 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating β€” 113,286 ratings
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Women Writing in India, Volume I: 600 BC to the Early 20th Century
Women Writing in India, Volume I: 600 BC to the Early 20th Century
by: K Lalita
4.82 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Thursday's Child
Thursday's Child 4.14 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 3.64 avg rating β€” 14,301 ratings
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The Bastard of Istanbul
The Bastard of Istanbul 3.88 avg rating β€” 61,735 ratings
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Love Medicine: New and Expanded Version
Love Medicine: New and Expanded Version 4.01 avg rating β€” 28,024 ratings
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The Beet Queen
The Beet Queen 3.87 avg rating β€” 14,454 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,175 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating β€” 33,276 ratings
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 3.55 avg rating β€” 38,035 ratings
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The Lowland
The Lowland 3.88 avg rating β€” 95,699 ratings
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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #5)
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #5) 4.29 avg rating β€” 7,945 ratings
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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)
Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) 3.86 avg rating β€” 28,535 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,229 ratings
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The Briefcase
The Briefcase 3.69 avg rating β€” 49,430 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating β€” 107,278 ratings
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Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)
Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1) 4.09 avg rating β€” 28,049 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating β€” 7,356 ratings
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The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 50,662 ratings
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Call Me Zebra: From the Award-Winning Author of Call Me Zebra
Call Me Zebra: From the Award-Winning Author of Call Me Zebra 2.85 avg rating β€” 1,342 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating β€” 52,424 ratings
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Heart Berries
Heart Berries 3.82 avg rating β€” 29,276 ratings
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Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2)
Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava, #2) 4.32 avg rating β€” 11,069 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating β€” 662 ratings
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Eileen
Eileen 3.56 avg rating β€” 122,786 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating β€” 91,944 ratings
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Requiem
Requiem 4.09 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
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Revenge
Revenge 4.02 avg rating β€” 27,952 ratings
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I'm Afraid of Men.
I'm Afraid of Men. 4.21 avg rating β€” 12,149 ratings
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Happiness
Happiness 3.85 avg rating β€” 4,968 ratings
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Please Look After Mom
Please Look After Mom 3.91 avg rating β€” 46,605 ratings
139.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by: Lisa See
4.09 avg rating β€” 382,948 ratings
140.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating β€” 238,935 ratings
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Born Confused (Born Confused #1)
Born Confused (Born Confused #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 5,332 ratings
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Ru
Ru 3.82 avg rating β€” 24,630 ratings
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Masks
Masks 3.68 avg rating β€” 3,851 ratings
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And we sold the rain: Contemporary fiction from Central America
And we sold the rain: Contemporary fiction from Central America 3.52 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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The Street
The Street
by: Ann Petry
4.27 avg rating β€” 12,961 ratings
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Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising 4.04 avg rating β€” 111,370 ratings
147.
Song of the Exile
Song of the Exile 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,798 ratings
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Dictee
Dictee 4.03 avg rating β€” 3,846 ratings
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Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3) 3.94 avg rating β€” 13,676 ratings
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The Girl Who Played Go
The Girl Who Played Go
by: Shan Sa
3.79 avg rating β€” 6,105 ratings
151.
She Would Be King
She Would Be King really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,233 ratings
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,900 ratings
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Wings of Rhapsody
Wings of Rhapsody 4.89 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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The Bullet Collection
The Bullet Collection 4.28 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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The Gypsy Goddess
The Gypsy Goddess 3.77 avg rating β€” 587 ratings
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Tar Baby
Tar Baby 3.99 avg rating β€” 23,196 ratings
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The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology 4.11 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
by: Gwen Carr
4.03 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
153.
salt.
salt. 4.23 avg rating β€” 25,023 ratings
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Well-Behaved Indian Women
Well-Behaved Indian Women 3.77 avg rating β€” 5,257 ratings
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde 4.61 avg rating β€” 2,040 ratings
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Requiem of Silence (Earthsinger Chronicles, #4)
Requiem of Silence (Earthsinger Chronicles, #4) 4.23 avg rating β€” 221 ratings
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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell 4.19 avg rating β€” 51,214 ratings
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Sultana's Dream
Sultana's Dream 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,338 ratings
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Blue on a Blue Palette
Blue on a Blue Palette 4.47 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1) 3.96 avg rating β€” 22,751 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating β€” 9,664 ratings
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The Sandal Trees And Other Stories
The Sandal Trees And Other Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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Bitter Sweet
Bitter Sweet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Love's Third Eye
Love's Third Eye 4.33 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More 4.30 avg rating β€” 16,467 ratings
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Gathering Ground: New Writing and Art by Northwest Women of Color
Gathering Ground: New Writing and Art by Northwest Women of Color 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,707 ratings
166.
Mambo in Chinatown
Mambo in Chinatown
by: Jean Kwok
3.76 avg rating β€” 5,636 ratings
166.
Black Queer Hoe
Black Queer Hoe 4.43 avg rating β€” 931 ratings
166.
Carefree Black Girls
Carefree Black Girls
by: Zeba Blay
4.31 avg rating β€” 1,027 ratings
166.
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,434 ratings
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Star Daughter
Star Daughter 3.29 avg rating β€” 8,274 ratings
166.
Spirits Abroad
Spirits Abroad
by: Zen Cho
4.17 avg rating β€” 1,965 ratings
180.
Lust, Caution and Other Stories
Lust, Caution and Other Stories 3.58 avg rating β€” 755 ratings
180.
The Moor's Account
The Moor's Account 4.04 avg rating β€” 12,548 ratings
180.
Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars
Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars 4.14 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
180.
The Nakano Thrift Shop
The Nakano Thrift Shop 3.37 avg rating β€” 14,371 ratings
180.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Searching for Sylvie Lee
by: Jean Kwok
3.64 avg rating β€” 39,826 ratings
180.
Life on Mars: Poems
Life on Mars: Poems 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,908 ratings
180.
The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India 4.16 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
180.
Cry of Metal & Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles, #3)
Cry of Metal & Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles, #3) 4.21 avg rating β€” 491 ratings
180.
The Conch Bearer (Brotherhood of the Conch, #1)
The Conch Bearer (Brotherhood of the Conch, #1) 3.73 avg rating β€” 2,230 ratings
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The Boy with Fire (The Ravence Trilogy, #1)
The Boy with Fire (The Ravence Trilogy, #1) 3.67 avg rating β€” 5,120 ratings
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Trade Me (Cyclone, #1)
Trade Me (Cyclone, #1) 3.76 avg rating β€” 5,671 ratings
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 3.44 avg rating β€” 1,732 ratings
191.
Get Down
Get Down 3.80 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
191.
Falling in Love with Hominids
Falling in Love with Hominids 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,457 ratings
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The Chaos of Longing
The Chaos of Longing 3.62 avg rating β€” 8,560 ratings
191.
Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures
Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures 3.69 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
191.
I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten
I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten 4.19 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger Chronicles, #2)
Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger Chronicles, #2) 4.04 avg rating β€” 728 ratings
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An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League, #1)
An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League, #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 9,855 ratings
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Woman at Point Zero
Woman at Point Zero 4.21 avg rating β€” 27,032 ratings
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Brazil-Maru
Brazil-Maru 3.66 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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