Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018

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Night Hawks: Stories
Night Hawks: Stories 3.61 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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This Mournable Body
This Mournable Body 3.33 avg rating β€” 4,835 ratings
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
If Cats Disappeared from the World 3.79 avg rating β€” 113,448 ratings
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My Old Faithful: Stories
My Old Faithful: Stories 4.04 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark 4.02 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
106.
An Orchestra of Minorities
An Orchestra of Minorities 3.69 avg rating β€” 6,160 ratings
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Whiskey & Ribbons
Whiskey & Ribbons 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,107 ratings
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles 4.33 avg rating β€” 95,691 ratings
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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) 3.83 avg rating β€” 39,359 ratings
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La Bastarda
La Bastarda 3.54 avg rating β€” 1,232 ratings
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir 4.09 avg rating β€” 314 ratings
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She Would Be King
She Would Be King really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,235 ratings
113.
Everybody's Son
Everybody's Son 3.93 avg rating β€” 10,392 ratings
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Silent Hearts
Silent Hearts 3.93 avg rating β€” 936 ratings
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance 4.29 avg rating β€” 551 ratings
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Knucklehead
Knucklehead 3.94 avg rating β€” 190 ratings
117.
Don't Skip Out on Me
Don't Skip Out on Me 4.13 avg rating β€” 3,427 ratings
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Family Trust
Family Trust 3.21 avg rating β€” 7,493 ratings
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A Dangerous Crossing (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #4)
A Dangerous Crossing (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #4) 4.09 avg rating β€” 867 ratings
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Cult X
Cult X 2.83 avg rating β€” 1,701 ratings
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The Neighborhood
The Neighborhood 3.49 avg rating β€” 8,487 ratings
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The Kinship Of Secrets
The Kinship Of Secrets 3.77 avg rating β€” 2,356 ratings
123.
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America 4.10 avg rating β€” 270 ratings
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After 4.19 avg rating β€” 24,695 ratings
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As Good as True
As Good as True 3.74 avg rating β€” 5,428 ratings
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The Restless
The Restless 4.05 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel 4.38 avg rating β€” 12,207 ratings
128.
Sugar Money
Sugar Money 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,126 ratings
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That Time I Loved You
That Time I Loved You 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,336 ratings
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Ayesha at Last
Ayesha at Last 3.86 avg rating β€” 26,785 ratings
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Love's Long Line
Love's Long Line 4.53 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves 4.36 avg rating β€” 6,485 ratings
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The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,928 ratings
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The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation 3.96 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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Adjacentland
Adjacentland 3.22 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Ordinary People
Ordinary People 3.30 avg rating β€” 13,598 ratings
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,247 ratings
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I Die by This Country (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French)
I Die by This Country (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French) 3.65 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
139.
Second Time Sweeter (Blessings, #9)
Second Time Sweeter (Blessings, #9) 4.39 avg rating β€” 1,091 ratings
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Not Here
Not Here 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,471 ratings
140.
The Caregiver
The Caregiver 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,629 ratings
142.
Who Took My Sister?
Who Took My Sister? really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
143.
Tempest (Old West, #3)
Tempest (Old West, #3) 4.19 avg rating β€” 3,086 ratings
143.
The Black God's Drums
The Black God's Drums really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 11,311 ratings
145.
A View of the Empire at Sunset
A View of the Empire at Sunset 3.12 avg rating β€” 394 ratings
146.
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 16,594 ratings
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Disoriental
Disoriental 4.20 avg rating β€” 6,311 ratings
147.
It All Falls Down (Nora Watts, #2)
It All Falls Down (Nora Watts, #2) 3.41 avg rating β€” 1,054 ratings
149.
The Undressing: Poems
The Undressing: Poems 3.77 avg rating β€” 982 ratings
149.
Housegirl
Housegirl liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1,692 ratings
151.
Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy 3.83 avg rating β€” 9,688 ratings
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Suicide Club
Suicide Club 3.21 avg rating β€” 4,702 ratings
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At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 3.87 avg rating β€” 269 ratings
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Up From Freedom
Up From Freedom 3.99 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Half Gods
Half Gods 3.85 avg rating β€” 855 ratings
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America for Beginners
America for Beginners 3.90 avg rating β€” 6,857 ratings
157.
Wrecked (IQ, #3)
Wrecked (IQ, #3)
by: Joe Ide
3.90 avg rating β€” 5,347 ratings
158.
Such a Lonely, Lovely Road
Such a Lonely, Lovely Road 4.11 avg rating β€” 226 ratings
159.
Meet Behind Mars (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
Meet Behind Mars (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.38 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
159.
Black Fathers Are Real: "We Do Exist"
Black Fathers Are Real: "We Do Exist" it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Damselfly
Damselfly 3.37 avg rating β€” 891 ratings
159.
Heaven and Hell: A Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood
Heaven and Hell: A Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood 4.10 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child 4.24 avg rating β€” 7,295 ratings
159.
Book of the Anointed (Saga of the Sons, #1)
Book of the Anointed (Saga of the Sons, #1)
by: J. Moon
3.71 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
159.
Black Beach (Inanna Young Feminist Series)
Black Beach (Inanna Young Feminist Series) 3.67 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
159.
The Phat Girlz Club
The Phat Girlz Club 4.21 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
167.
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You 4.26 avg rating β€” 26,326 ratings
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Immigrant, Montana
Immigrant, Montana 3.15 avg rating β€” 1,530 ratings
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Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning 4.11 avg rating β€” 3,914 ratings
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Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America 3.54 avg rating β€” 373 ratings
171.
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating β€” 86,830 ratings
172.
Corduroy Takes a Bow
Corduroy Takes a Bow 3.95 avg rating β€” 581 ratings
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The Storm
The Storm 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,248 ratings
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Sunshine in the Delta
Sunshine in the Delta 3.62 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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M Archive: After the End of the World
M Archive: After the End of the World 4.47 avg rating β€” 498 ratings
176.
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays 3.82 avg rating β€” 8,149 ratings
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Things Are Good Now
Things Are Good Now 3.88 avg rating β€” 223 ratings
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Promise
Promise 3.85 avg rating β€” 2,274 ratings
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Roberto to the Dark Tower Came
Roberto to the Dark Tower Came 3.96 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
180.
Jonny Appleseed
Jonny Appleseed 3.94 avg rating β€” 16,335 ratings
181.
Chariot on the Mountain
Chariot on the Mountain
by: Jack Ford
4.03 avg rating β€” 1,426 ratings
182.
Cape Verdean Blues (Pitt Poetry Series)
Cape Verdean Blues (Pitt Poetry Series) 3.81 avg rating β€” 273 ratings
183.
And It Begins Like This
And It Begins Like This 4.45 avg rating β€” 91 ratings
184.
Death Comes in Through the Kitchen
Death Comes in Through the Kitchen 2.82 avg rating β€” 391 ratings
185.
Red Birds
Red Birds 3.20 avg rating β€” 1,523 ratings
186.
Plum Rains
Plum Rains 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,097 ratings
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Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood 4.06 avg rating β€” 228 ratings
188.
North of Dawn
North of Dawn 3.39 avg rating β€” 921 ratings
189.
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected 4.39 avg rating β€” 690 ratings
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Mysterium
Mysterium 3.08 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
190.
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
The Hundred Wells of Salaga 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,212 ratings
192.
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
192.
Split Tooth
Split Tooth 3.90 avg rating β€” 13,004 ratings
194.
The Air You Breathe
The Air You Breathe 3.88 avg rating β€” 9,003 ratings
195.
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,202 ratings
196.
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen 4.09 avg rating β€” 4,990 ratings
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The Extinction of Menai
The Extinction of Menai 3.93 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
198.
The Brightest Sun
The Brightest Sun 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,394 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic 4.44 avg rating β€” 439 ratings
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Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems
Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems 4.25 avg rating β€” 486 ratings
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