Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019

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Lima :: LimΓ³n
Lima :: LimΓ³n 4.35 avg rating β€” 428 ratings
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The Deep
The Deep 3.77 avg rating β€” 38,703 ratings
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The Marriage Clock
The Marriage Clock 3.27 avg rating β€” 4,083 ratings
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One Night in Georgia
One Night in Georgia 3.59 avg rating β€” 726 ratings
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1919
1919 4.49 avg rating β€” 2,654 ratings
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In the Night of Memory
In the Night of Memory 3.97 avg rating β€” 424 ratings
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The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by: Yanyi .
4.24 avg rating β€” 719 ratings
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House of Stone
House of Stone 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,020 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland 4.03 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets 4.25 avg rating β€” 683 ratings
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Dealing in Dreams
Dealing in Dreams 3.43 avg rating β€” 999 ratings
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Pet (Pet, #1)
Pet (Pet, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 33,364 ratings
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Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)
Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2) 3.89 avg rating β€” 9,341 ratings
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century 3.55 avg rating β€” 478 ratings
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Notes from a Young Black Chef
Notes from a Young Black Chef 4.03 avg rating β€” 11,708 ratings
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Home Remedies
Home Remedies 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,441 ratings
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1) 3.68 avg rating β€” 20,634 ratings
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters 3.79 avg rating β€” 17,149 ratings
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3) 3.97 avg rating β€” 17,180 ratings
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In the Dream House: A Memoir
In the Dream House: A Memoir 4.40 avg rating β€” 153,027 ratings
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Twenty-Ninth Year
Twenty-Ninth Year 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,065 ratings
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Africaville
Africaville 3.19 avg rating β€” 1,287 ratings
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A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)
A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5) 3.93 avg rating β€” 774 ratings
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A Student of History
A Student of History 3.36 avg rating β€” 546 ratings
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The Dragonfly Sea
The Dragonfly Sea 3.88 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss 3.59 avg rating β€” 3,668 ratings
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Minutes of Glory and Other Stories
Minutes of Glory and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Call Your Daughter Home
Call Your Daughter Home
by: Deb Spera
4.22 avg rating β€” 42,492 ratings
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They Could Have Named Her Anything
They Could Have Named Her Anything 3.05 avg rating β€” 2,945 ratings
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family 3.77 avg rating β€” 1,289 ratings
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Hybrida
Hybrida 3.92 avg rating β€” 386 ratings
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Prince of Monkeys
Prince of Monkeys 3.48 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
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How to Love a Country
How to Love a Country 4.26 avg rating β€” 765 ratings
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love 4.12 avg rating β€” 155 ratings
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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating β€” 678 ratings
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Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1)
Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1) 3.82 avg rating β€” 16,813 ratings
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Dominicana
Dominicana 4.11 avg rating β€” 37,059 ratings
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The Shadow King
The Shadow King 3.66 avg rating β€” 14,622 ratings
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Out of Darkness, Shining Light 3.43 avg rating β€” 2,512 ratings
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The Candle and the Flame
The Candle and the Flame 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,272 ratings
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Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life 4.34 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
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Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1)
Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1) 3.98 avg rating β€” 63,020 ratings
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Let's Tell This Story Properly
Let's Tell This Story Properly 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,201 ratings
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The Grief Keeper
The Grief Keeper 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,983 ratings
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The Stationery Shop
The Stationery Shop 4.23 avg rating β€” 109,975 ratings
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The Tiger at Midnight (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #1)
The Tiger at Midnight (The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 5,637 ratings
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Slay
Slay 4.19 avg rating β€” 15,723 ratings
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,229 ratings
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This Shall Be a House of Peace
This Shall Be a House of Peace 4.09 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
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I Hope You Get This Message
I Hope You Get This Message 3.52 avg rating β€” 5,172 ratings
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Savage Conversations
Savage Conversations 3.76 avg rating β€” 563 ratings
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Oculus: Poems
Oculus: Poems 4.18 avg rating β€” 834 ratings
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The Library of Legends
The Library of Legends 3.79 avg rating β€” 11,225 ratings
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A Door in the Earth
A Door in the Earth 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,618 ratings
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Cantoras
Cantoras 4.38 avg rating β€” 7,904 ratings
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Adèle
Adèle 3.40 avg rating — 18,786 ratings
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The Gilded Auction Block: Poems
The Gilded Auction Block: Poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 163 ratings
157.
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (Weatherhead Books on Asia) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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Gun Island
Gun Island 3.63 avg rating β€” 6,201 ratings
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The Object of Your Affections
The Object of Your Affections 3.39 avg rating β€” 346 ratings
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99 Nights in Logar
99 Nights in Logar 3.39 avg rating β€” 967 ratings
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They Called Me Wyatt
They Called Me Wyatt 1.66 avg rating β€” 2,259 ratings
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Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories
Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories 3.72 avg rating β€” 11,539 ratings
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls 4.25 avg rating β€” 10,183 ratings
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Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus, #1)
Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,950 ratings
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan 3.77 avg rating β€” 1,700 ratings
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Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,928 ratings
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The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls, #1)
The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,556 ratings
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Full Disclosure
Full Disclosure 3.91 avg rating β€” 7,860 ratings
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers 4.50 avg rating β€” 320 ratings
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American Prodigy
American Prodigy 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Like This Afternoon Forever
Like This Afternoon Forever 3.72 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square 3.10 avg rating β€” 97 ratings
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At Dusk
At Dusk 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,080 ratings
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The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix 3.62 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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The Limits of the World
The Limits of the World 3.39 avg rating β€” 322 ratings
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Woman of the Ashes (Sands of the Emperor, #1)
Woman of the Ashes (Sands of the Emperor, #1)
by: Mia Couto
3.83 avg rating β€” 1,517 ratings
177.
In the Key of Nira Ghani
In the Key of Nira Ghani 4.08 avg rating β€” 513 ratings
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A People's History of Heaven
A People's History of Heaven 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,632 ratings
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Any Other Place
Any Other Place 4.18 avg rating β€” 151 ratings
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The Matchmaker's List
The Matchmaker's List 3.29 avg rating β€” 7,372 ratings
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David Mogo Godhunter
David Mogo Godhunter 3.61 avg rating β€” 1,347 ratings
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Hot Comb
Hot Comb 3.78 avg rating β€” 2,053 ratings
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Busted in New York and Other Essays
Busted in New York and Other Essays 4.09 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
185.
Beirut Hellfire Society
Beirut Hellfire Society
by: Rawi Hage
3.49 avg rating β€” 1,550 ratings
185.
Exiles of Eden
Exiles of Eden 4.09 avg rating β€” 116 ratings
185.
The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)
The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2) 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,448 ratings
188.
Bombay Brides
Bombay Brides 3.49 avg rating β€” 196 ratings
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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) 4.14 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Red at the Bone
Red at the Bone 3.96 avg rating β€” 82,541 ratings
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Travelers
Travelers 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,289 ratings
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The Perfect Date
The Perfect Date 2.62 avg rating β€” 2,056 ratings
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The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack 3.52 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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The Starlet and the Spy
The Starlet and the Spy 3.16 avg rating β€” 1,549 ratings
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Living on the Borderlines: Stories
Living on the Borderlines: Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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We, the Survivors
We, the Survivors
by: Tash Aw
3.66 avg rating β€” 2,156 ratings
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Stubborn Archivist
Stubborn Archivist 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,172 ratings
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The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story 4.05 avg rating β€” 778 ratings
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Eg snakkar om det heile tida
Eg snakkar om det heile tida 4.66 avg rating β€” 1,489 ratings
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Nirvana Is Here
Nirvana Is Here 4.05 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
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