Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019

1.
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
2.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating β€” 375,016 ratings
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The Night Tiger
The Night Tiger 3.86 avg rating β€” 65,360 ratings
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Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating β€” 154,545 ratings
5.
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow 3.62 avg rating β€” 5,089 ratings
6.
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating β€” 290,982 ratings
7.
A Woman Is No Man
A Woman Is No Man
by: Etaf Rum
4.26 avg rating β€” 168,485 ratings
8.
An Orchestra of Minorities
An Orchestra of Minorities 3.69 avg rating β€” 6,159 ratings
9.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating β€” 116,571 ratings
10.
Miracle Creek
Miracle Creek
by: Angie Kim
3.87 avg rating β€” 75,763 ratings
11.
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays 4.43 avg rating β€” 18,144 ratings
12.
American Spy
American Spy 3.49 avg rating β€” 30,285 ratings
13.
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves 4.36 avg rating β€” 6,484 ratings
14.
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2) 4.39 avg rating β€” 86,006 ratings
15.
The Old Drift
The Old Drift 3.73 avg rating β€” 7,422 ratings
16.
Gingerbread
Gingerbread 3.05 avg rating β€” 15,465 ratings
17.
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls 3.63 avg rating β€” 21,132 ratings
18.
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating β€” 118,327 ratings
19.
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 4.30 avg rating β€” 4,085 ratings
20.
Sabrina & Corina
Sabrina & Corina 4.18 avg rating β€” 14,680 ratings
21.
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating β€” 19,778 ratings
22.
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune 3.47 avg rating β€” 9,155 ratings
23.
Friday Black
Friday Black 4.04 avg rating β€” 18,510 ratings
24.
Lost Children Archive
Lost Children Archive 3.81 avg rating β€” 24,773 ratings
25.
Magical Negro
Magical Negro 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,769 ratings
26.
Storm of Locusts (The Sixth World, #2)
Storm of Locusts (The Sixth World, #2) 4.18 avg rating β€” 11,207 ratings
27.
In West Mills
In West Mills 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,507 ratings
28.
Internment
Internment 3.87 avg rating β€” 20,055 ratings
29.
Unmarriageable
Unmarriageable 3.74 avg rating β€” 13,192 ratings
30.
Patsy
Patsy 3.91 avg rating β€” 11,851 ratings
31.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Searching for Sylvie Lee
by: Jean Kwok
3.64 avg rating β€” 39,824 ratings
32.
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays 4.30 avg rating β€” 4,092 ratings
33.
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2) 4.36 avg rating β€” 189,394 ratings
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The Bird King
The Bird King 3.73 avg rating β€” 9,856 ratings
35.
Golden Child
Golden Child 3.45 avg rating β€” 8,596 ratings
36.
The Atlas of Reds and Blues
The Atlas of Reds and Blues 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,926 ratings
37.
The Body Myth
The Body Myth 3.59 avg rating β€” 467 ratings
38.
The White Book
The White Book
by: Han Kang
3.81 avg rating β€” 29,841 ratings
38.
Descendant of the Crane
Descendant of the Crane
by: Joan He
3.63 avg rating β€” 12,092 ratings
40.
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me 4.35 avg rating β€” 426 ratings
41.
The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating β€” 10,005 ratings
42.
The Other Americans
The Other Americans 3.90 avg rating β€” 18,889 ratings
43.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The Confessions of Frannie Langton 3.56 avg rating β€” 18,618 ratings
44.
The Tenth Muse
The Tenth Muse 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,414 ratings
45.
The Light at the Bottom of the World (Light the Abyss, #1)
The Light at the Bottom of the World (Light the Abyss, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,870 ratings
46.
The Murmur of Bees
The Murmur of Bees 4.23 avg rating β€” 72,648 ratings
47.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Gods of Jade and Shadow 3.88 avg rating β€” 74,717 ratings
48.
The Plotters
The Plotters
by: Un-Su Kim
3.57 avg rating β€” 7,312 ratings
49.
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,806 ratings
50.
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,335 ratings
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Lot
Lot 3.75 avg rating β€” 10,178 ratings
52.
How We Fight For Our Lives
How We Fight For Our Lives 4.27 avg rating β€” 22,734 ratings
53.
Where Reasons End
Where Reasons End
by: Yiyun Li
3.76 avg rating β€” 5,901 ratings
54.
The Island of Sea Women
The Island of Sea Women
by: Lisa See
4.32 avg rating β€” 154,759 ratings
54.
The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3)
The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch, #3) 4.27 avg rating β€” 17,827 ratings
56.
Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other 4.27 avg rating β€” 256,270 ratings
57.
Death Is Hard Work
Death Is Hard Work 3.70 avg rating β€” 4,608 ratings
58.
Sea Monsters
Sea Monsters 3.34 avg rating β€” 1,946 ratings
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The Far Field
The Far Field 3.87 avg rating β€” 10,987 ratings
60.
The Affairs of the FalcΓ³ns
The Affairs of the FalcΓ³ns 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,983 ratings
61.
To Keep the Sun Alive
To Keep the Sun Alive 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,048 ratings
62.
The World Doesn't Require You
The World Doesn't Require You 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,533 ratings
63.
American Heroin (Lola Vasquez, #2)
American Heroin (Lola Vasquez, #2) 3.64 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
64.
Cherokee America
Cherokee America 3.52 avg rating β€” 1,564 ratings
64.
The Travelers
The Travelers 3.60 avg rating β€” 3,621 ratings
66.
Everything Inside
Everything Inside 3.69 avg rating β€” 11,976 ratings
67.
Walking on the Ceiling
Walking on the Ceiling 3.52 avg rating β€” 2,128 ratings
68.
The Memory Police
The Memory Police 3.71 avg rating β€” 124,199 ratings
69.
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations 4.45 avg rating β€” 26,180 ratings
70.
Elsewhere, Home
Elsewhere, Home 3.67 avg rating β€” 881 ratings
71.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays 4.14 avg rating β€” 4,694 ratings
72.
The White Card: A Play
The White Card: A Play 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,007 ratings
73.
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,145 ratings
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #2)
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #2) 3.89 avg rating β€” 78,666 ratings
75.
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
by: Temi Oh
3.65 avg rating β€” 5,270 ratings
76.
Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2) 4.13 avg rating β€” 19,256 ratings
77.
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
by: Jayy Dodd
4.53 avg rating β€” 76 ratings
78.
The Downstairs Girl
The Downstairs Girl 3.96 avg rating β€” 39,913 ratings
79.
If You Want to Make God Laugh
If You Want to Make God Laugh 4.31 avg rating β€” 5,074 ratings
80.
The Last Thing You Surrender
The Last Thing You Surrender 4.65 avg rating β€” 2,620 ratings
81.
The Gone Dead
The Gone Dead 3.44 avg rating β€” 4,551 ratings
82.
Tonguebreaker
Tonguebreaker 4.51 avg rating β€” 246 ratings
82.
Trust Exercise
Trust Exercise 3.13 avg rating β€” 38,013 ratings
84.
Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement 3.68 avg rating β€” 150 ratings
85.
When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)
When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2) 4.01 avg rating β€” 45,274 ratings
86.
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of KimberlΓ© Crenshaw
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of KimberlΓ© Crenshaw 4.42 avg rating β€” 248 ratings
87.
Build Yourself a Boat
Build Yourself a Boat 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,155 ratings
88.
New Daughters of Africa
New Daughters of Africa 4.26 avg rating β€” 210 ratings
88.
Soft Science
Soft Science 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,939 ratings
90.
The Runaways
The Runaways 3.35 avg rating β€” 1,893 ratings
91.
With the Fire on High
With the Fire on High 4.17 avg rating β€” 88,723 ratings
92.
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins 3.66 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
92.
The Unpassing
The Unpassing 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,081 ratings
94.
The Lesson
The Lesson 3.57 avg rating β€” 3,812 ratings
95.
Your House Will Pay
Your House Will Pay
by: Steph Cha
4.08 avg rating β€” 10,195 ratings
96.
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
The Hundred Wells of Salaga 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,212 ratings
97.
Library of Small Catastrophes
Library of Small Catastrophes 4.12 avg rating β€” 463 ratings
98.
We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)
We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) 3.76 avg rating β€” 20,588 ratings
99.
The Book of Delights: Essays
The Book of Delights: Essays
by: Ross Gay
4.14 avg rating β€” 19,398 ratings
100.
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Bangkok Wakes to Rain 3.59 avg rating β€” 3,426 ratings
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