Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018

1.
An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating β€” 379,496 ratings
2.
Everything Here Is Beautiful
Everything Here Is Beautiful 3.93 avg rating β€” 19,982 ratings
3.
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Ψ³Ψ§ΨΉΨ© Ψ¨ΨΊΨ―Ψ§Ψ― 3.55 avg rating β€” 2,750 ratings
4.
There There
There There 3.98 avg rating β€” 214,277 ratings
5.
Rainbirds
Rainbirds 3.48 avg rating β€” 7,152 ratings
6.
The Boat People
The Boat People 3.98 avg rating β€” 7,283 ratings
7.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating β€” 25,284 ratings
8.
Girls Burn Brighter
Girls Burn Brighter 3.77 avg rating β€” 25,066 ratings
9.
The Incendiaries
The Incendiaries
by: R.O. Kwon
3.21 avg rating β€” 25,022 ratings
10.
A Place for Us
A Place for Us 4.17 avg rating β€” 64,120 ratings
11.
Though I Get Home
Though I Get Home
by: YZ Chin
3.95 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
12.
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #1) 4.11 avg rating β€” 245,767 ratings
13.
Freshwater
Freshwater 4.01 avg rating β€” 35,600 ratings
14.
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating β€” 22,346 ratings
15.
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Fruit of the Drunken Tree 3.95 avg rating β€” 19,349 ratings
16.
On the Come Up
On the Come Up 4.26 avg rating β€” 99,743 ratings
17.
The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels 3.88 avg rating β€” 18,826 ratings
18.
Number One Chinese Restaurant
Number One Chinese Restaurant liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 7,052 ratings
19.
Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil 3.86 avg rating β€” 9,435 ratings
20.
The Map of Salt and Stars
The Map of Salt and Stars 3.92 avg rating β€” 20,147 ratings
21.
Love War Stories
Love War Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 444 ratings
22.
Happiness
Happiness 3.85 avg rating β€” 4,968 ratings
22.
Halsey Street
Halsey Street 3.54 avg rating β€” 7,860 ratings
24.
Heads of the Colored People
Heads of the Colored People 4.11 avg rating β€” 7,906 ratings
25.
The Parking Lot Attendant
The Parking Lot Attendant 3.16 avg rating β€” 1,908 ratings
26.
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) 3.57 avg rating β€” 160,331 ratings
27.
The Dirty Version
The Dirty Version 4.54 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
28.
Brother
Brother 3.98 avg rating β€” 11,888 ratings
29.
Heart Berries
Heart Berries 3.82 avg rating β€” 29,272 ratings
30.
Washington Black
Washington Black 3.95 avg rating β€” 70,642 ratings
31.
The Lost Girls Of Camp Forevermore
The Lost Girls Of Camp Forevermore
by: Kim Fu
3.21 avg rating β€” 6,077 ratings
32.
They Come in All Colors
They Come in All Colors 3.45 avg rating β€” 334 ratings
33.
Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,160,462 ratings
34.
How to Love a Jamaican
How to Love a Jamaican 3.85 avg rating β€” 3,741 ratings
35.
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating β€” 32,081 ratings
36.
All the Names They Used for God
All the Names They Used for God 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,637 ratings
37.
So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating β€” 107,271 ratings
38.
America Is Not the Heart
America Is Not the Heart 3.97 avg rating β€” 5,636 ratings
39.
If You Leave Me
If You Leave Me 3.69 avg rating β€” 4,784 ratings
40.
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman 3.68 avg rating β€” 349,094 ratings
41.
If They Come for Us
If They Come for Us 4.23 avg rating β€” 8,121 ratings
42.
A Lucky Man
A Lucky Man 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,150 ratings
43.
Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating β€” 43,658 ratings
44.
If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
If You See Me, Don't Say Hi 3.79 avg rating β€” 3,663 ratings
45.
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1) 3.93 avg rating β€” 32,488 ratings
46.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating β€” 203,022 ratings
47.
Severance
Severance
by: Ling Ma
3.89 avg rating β€” 122,898 ratings
48.
Song of a Captive Bird
Song of a Captive Bird 4.21 avg rating β€” 6,045 ratings
49.
The Perfect Nanny
The Perfect Nanny 3.40 avg rating β€” 119,790 ratings
50.
The House of Impossible Beauties
The House of Impossible Beauties 3.86 avg rating β€” 4,665 ratings
51.
The Secrets Between Us
The Secrets Between Us 4.50 avg rating β€” 10,515 ratings
52.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
My Sister, the Serial Killer 3.65 avg rating β€” 332,346 ratings
53.
A Spy In Time
A Spy In Time 3.14 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
54.
Sea Prayer
Sea Prayer 4.11 avg rating β€” 59,557 ratings
55.
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 22,904 ratings
56.
The Ensemble
The Ensemble
by: Aja Gabel
3.48 avg rating β€” 10,548 ratings
56.
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 419,792 ratings
58.
Baghdad Noir
Baghdad Noir 3.62 avg rating β€” 140 ratings
59.
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,868 ratings
59.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth 4.14 avg rating β€” 95,607 ratings
61.
Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicles, #1)
Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicles, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 3,443 ratings
61.
The Space Between Us
The Space Between Us 4.03 avg rating β€” 52,229 ratings
63.
Graffiti Palace
Graffiti Palace 3.36 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
64.
What We Were Promised
What We Were Promised
by: Lucy Tan
3.54 avg rating β€” 5,822 ratings
65.
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
66.
That Kind of Mother
That Kind of Mother 3.07 avg rating β€” 7,670 ratings
67.
The Friend
The Friend 3.74 avg rating β€” 54,678 ratings
68.
Small Country
Small Country 4.25 avg rating β€” 26,661 ratings
69.
Friday Black
Friday Black 4.04 avg rating β€” 18,510 ratings
70.
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,844 ratings
71.
A State of Freedom
A State of Freedom 3.60 avg rating β€” 1,930 ratings
72.
The Belles (The Belles, #1)
The Belles (The Belles, #1) 3.82 avg rating β€” 25,072 ratings
73.
Everyone Knows You Go Home
Everyone Knows You Go Home 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,230 ratings
74.
The House of Erzulie
The House of Erzulie 3.69 avg rating β€” 151 ratings
75.
Bury What We Cannot Take
Bury What We Cannot Take 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,471 ratings
76.
Go Home!
Go Home! 3.90 avg rating β€” 288 ratings
77.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating β€” 4,608 ratings
78.
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,731 ratings
79.
Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family, #1)
Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family, #1) 3.93 avg rating β€” 144,875 ratings
80.
Where the Dead Sit Talking
Where the Dead Sit Talking 3.34 avg rating β€” 5,540 ratings
81.
American Histories: Stories
American Histories: Stories 3.47 avg rating β€” 165 ratings
82.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) 3.45 avg rating β€” 30,279 ratings
83.
Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)
Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1) 3.73 avg rating β€” 8,552 ratings
84.
Mem
Mem 3.62 avg rating β€” 3,542 ratings
84.
Shadow Child
Shadow Child 3.33 avg rating β€” 742 ratings
86.
Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad 4.02 avg rating β€” 620 ratings
87.
Mouths Don't Speak
Mouths Don't Speak 3.30 avg rating β€” 250 ratings
88.
The Court Dancer
The Court Dancer 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,508 ratings
89.
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,303 ratings
90.
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) 3.88 avg rating β€” 485,400 ratings
91.
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America 3.59 avg rating β€” 3,021 ratings
92.
Sophia of Silicon Valley
Sophia of Silicon Valley
by: Anna Yen
3.38 avg rating β€” 2,651 ratings
93.
A River of Stars
A River of Stars 3.59 avg rating β€” 5,191 ratings
94.
The Monk of Mokha
The Monk of Mokha 4.08 avg rating β€” 21,570 ratings
95.
The Occasional Virgin: A Novel
The Occasional Virgin: A Novel 2.53 avg rating β€” 546 ratings
96.
House of Rougeaux
House of Rougeaux 3.80 avg rating β€” 445 ratings
97.
Green
Green 3.62 avg rating β€” 1,953 ratings
98.
White Chrysanthemum
White Chrysanthemum 4.41 avg rating β€” 24,999 ratings
98.
How Are You Going to Save Yourself
How Are You Going to Save Yourself 3.27 avg rating β€” 631 ratings
100.
Terra Nullius
Terra Nullius 3.75 avg rating β€” 4,045 ratings
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