Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017

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Pachinko
Pachinko 4.34 avg rating β€” 582,442 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 145,343 ratings
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Exit West
Exit West 3.74 avg rating β€” 148,003 ratings
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The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give 4.46 avg rating β€” 986,266 ratings
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The Refugees
The Refugees 3.87 avg rating β€” 21,715 ratings
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating β€” 86,808 ratings
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Human Acts
Human Acts
by: Han Kang
4.27 avg rating β€” 61,823 ratings
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Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,574 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating β€” 425,888 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating β€” 118,941 ratings
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The Leavers
The Leavers
by: Lisa Ko
3.89 avg rating β€” 50,020 ratings
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No One Can Pronounce My Name
No One Can Pronounce My Name 3.66 avg rating β€” 3,585 ratings
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating β€” 30,034 ratings
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Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,279,415 ratings
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me 4.14 avg rating β€” 18,216 ratings
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American War
American War 3.80 avg rating β€” 41,104 ratings
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What We Lose
What We Lose 3.60 avg rating β€” 14,100 ratings
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky 4.09 avg rating β€” 16,022 ratings
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White Tears
White Tears 3.67 avg rating β€” 10,262 ratings
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Everything Belongs to Us
Everything Belongs to Us 3.56 avg rating β€” 1,105 ratings
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6,659 ratings
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Music of the Ghosts
Music of the Ghosts 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,215 ratings
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Men Without Women: Stories
Men Without Women: Stories 3.74 avg rating β€” 121,046 ratings
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Lucky Boy
Lucky Boy 4.14 avg rating β€” 13,527 ratings
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation 4.19 avg rating β€” 11,248 ratings
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by: Lisa See
4.29 avg rating β€” 120,801 ratings
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Goodbye, Vitamin
Goodbye, Vitamin 3.74 avg rating β€” 29,229 ratings
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No One Is Coming to Save Us
No One Is Coming to Save Us 3.02 avg rating β€” 6,405 ratings
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Chemistry
Chemistry 3.74 avg rating β€” 25,268 ratings
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Things We Lost in the Fire 4.05 avg rating β€” 55,298 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating β€” 10,176 ratings
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The Woman Next Door
The Woman Next Door 3.61 avg rating β€” 4,703 ratings
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The Idiot
The Idiot 3.65 avg rating β€” 101,479 ratings
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows 3.93 avg rating β€” 109,457 ratings
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Home Fire
Home Fire 4.02 avg rating β€” 70,376 ratings
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Selection Day
Selection Day 3.22 avg rating β€” 3,260 ratings
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 3.55 avg rating β€” 38,034 ratings
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Everybody's Son
Everybody's Son 3.93 avg rating β€” 10,391 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,799 ratings
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The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,008 ratings
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A Small Revolution
A Small Revolution
by: Jimin Han
3.26 avg rating β€” 2,135 ratings
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Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American Experience
Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American Experience 4.29 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Impossible Fairy Tale
The Impossible Fairy Tale
by: Han Yujoo
3.26 avg rating β€” 853 ratings
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The Lucky Ones
The Lucky Ones 3.30 avg rating β€” 1,030 ratings
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Six Four
Six Four 3.47 avg rating β€” 10,954 ratings
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
by: Bandi
3.99 avg rating β€” 7,142 ratings
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Augustown
Augustown 4.30 avg rating β€” 3,840 ratings
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Refuge
Refuge 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,947 ratings
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No Other World
No Other World 3.58 avg rating β€” 318 ratings
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Letters to a Young Muslim
Letters to a Young Muslim 4.05 avg rating β€” 2,788 ratings
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New Boy
New Boy 3.49 avg rating β€” 9,458 ratings
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The Victoria in My Head
The Victoria in My Head 3.95 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
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The Windfall
The Windfall 3.51 avg rating β€” 8,848 ratings
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The Wide Circumference of Love
The Wide Circumference of Love 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,857 ratings
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,348 ratings
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The Sisters of Alameda Street
The Sisters of Alameda Street 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,644 ratings
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Salt Houses
Salt Houses 4.01 avg rating β€” 19,218 ratings
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Harmless Like You
Harmless Like You 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,674 ratings
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Lightning Men (Darktown, #2)
Lightning Men (Darktown, #2) 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,481 ratings
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. 3.89 avg rating β€” 47,222 ratings
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August Snow (August Snow #1)
August Snow (August Snow #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 3,705 ratings
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The Golden Legend
The Golden Legend 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,669 ratings
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Death by His Grace (Darko Dawson #5)
Death by His Grace (Darko Dawson #5) 3.71 avg rating β€” 582 ratings
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Ghachar Ghochar
Ghachar Ghochar 3.89 avg rating β€” 17,790 ratings
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Thousand Star Hotel
Thousand Star Hotel
by: Bao Phi
4.29 avg rating β€” 344 ratings
66.
A Colony in a Nation
A Colony in a Nation 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,437 ratings
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Notes of a Crocodile
Notes of a Crocodile 3.82 avg rating β€” 8,545 ratings
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Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) 3.84 avg rating β€” 28,992 ratings
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Marriage of a Thousand Lies 3.72 avg rating β€” 3,629 ratings
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Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy 4.04 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
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Waking Lions
Waking Lions 3.80 avg rating β€” 9,099 ratings
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A Kind of Freedom
A Kind of Freedom 3.79 avg rating β€” 5,836 ratings
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Kintu
Kintu 4.11 avg rating β€” 4,364 ratings
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
by: Yiyun Li
3.71 avg rating β€” 2,500 ratings
74.
Sour Heart
Sour Heart 3.69 avg rating β€” 8,186 ratings
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The River of Kings
The River of Kings 3.77 avg rating β€” 1,163 ratings
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Dragon Springs Road
Dragon Springs Road 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,343 ratings
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Five-Carat Soul
Five-Carat Soul 4.02 avg rating β€” 5,123 ratings
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Temporary People (Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W)
Temporary People (Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W) 3.43 avg rating β€” 994 ratings
80.
Lola (Lola Vasquez, #1)
Lola (Lola Vasquez, #1) 3.59 avg rating β€” 2,047 ratings
81.
Dance of the Jakaranda
Dance of the Jakaranda 3.69 avg rating β€” 945 ratings
82.
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
by: Jon Else
3.88 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
83.
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea 3.89 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
84.
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 180,964 ratings
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The Tree with a Thousand Apples
The Tree with a Thousand Apples 4.41 avg rating β€” 498 ratings
86.
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead 3.49 avg rating β€” 463 ratings
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case 4.30 avg rating β€” 4,739 ratings
88.
The Color of Our Sky
The Color of Our Sky 4.24 avg rating β€” 12,282 ratings
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And Then There Was Me
And Then There Was Me 3.59 avg rating β€” 2,235 ratings
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He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty 3.76 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
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Live from Cairo
Live from Cairo 3.60 avg rating β€” 361 ratings
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Mad Country
Mad Country 3.53 avg rating β€” 253 ratings
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Twelve Days
Twelve Days 3.55 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places
The Atlas of Forgotten Places 4.05 avg rating β€” 611 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Unkindness of Ghosts 3.96 avg rating β€” 21,199 ratings
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Testify
Testify 4.63 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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The Nothing
The Nothing 3.19 avg rating β€” 1,772 ratings
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Quiet Until the Thaw
Quiet Until the Thaw 3.50 avg rating β€” 1,360 ratings
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The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II
The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II 3.78 avg rating β€” 238 ratings
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I Hear Your Voice
I Hear Your Voice 3.42 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
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