Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2020

1.
Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.10 avg rating β€” 158,625 ratings
2.
The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half 4.13 avg rating β€” 831,690 ratings
3.
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Death of Vivek Oji 4.12 avg rating β€” 66,328 ratings
4.
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Girl with the Louding Voice 4.42 avg rating β€” 167,296 ratings
5.
Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age 3.78 avg rating β€” 565,585 ratings
6.
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau 3.58 avg rating β€” 2,782 ratings
7.
These Ghosts Are Family
These Ghosts Are Family 3.66 avg rating β€” 7,586 ratings
8.
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong 4.17 avg rating β€” 77,994 ratings
9.
Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating β€” 416,424 ratings
10.
Interior Chinatown
Interior Chinatown 3.95 avg rating β€” 68,940 ratings
11.
Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters
Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters 3.98 avg rating β€” 924 ratings
12.
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,902 ratings
13.
The Mountains Sing
The Mountains Sing 4.31 avg rating β€” 57,459 ratings
14.
Days of Distraction
Days of Distraction 3.56 avg rating β€” 6,486 ratings
15.
The Black Cathedral
The Black Cathedral 3.71 avg rating β€” 788 ratings
16.
Conjure Women
Conjure Women 3.87 avg rating β€” 18,419 ratings
16.
A Burning
A Burning 3.72 avg rating β€” 52,144 ratings
18.
Luster
Luster 3.51 avg rating β€” 107,782 ratings
19.
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1) 4.18 avg rating β€” 206,730 ratings
20.
Hurricane Season
Hurricane Season 4.05 avg rating β€” 43,000 ratings
21.
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,126 ratings
22.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 4.19 avg rating β€” 43,071 ratings
23.
If I Had Your Face
If I Had Your Face 3.74 avg rating β€” 57,014 ratings
24.
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors 3.83 avg rating β€” 20,860 ratings
25.
The Night Watchman
The Night Watchman 4.09 avg rating β€” 87,930 ratings
26.
Pale
Pale 3.81 avg rating β€” 370 ratings
27.
Run Me to Earth
Run Me to Earth
by: Paul Yoon
3.68 avg rating β€” 3,525 ratings
28.
Little Gods
Little Gods
by: Meng Jin
3.60 avg rating β€” 5,083 ratings
29.
Inheritors
Inheritors 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,100 ratings
30.
The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections 4.17 avg rating β€” 35,965 ratings
31.
Little Eyes
Little Eyes 3.59 avg rating β€” 22,587 ratings
32.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
How Much of These Hills Is Gold 3.78 avg rating β€” 25,959 ratings
33.
The Majesties
The Majesties 3.28 avg rating β€” 3,791 ratings
34.
Riot Baby
Riot Baby 3.71 avg rating β€” 11,747 ratings
35.
Real Life
Real Life 3.79 avg rating β€” 36,465 ratings
36.
Leave the World Behind
Leave the World Behind 3.15 avg rating β€” 163,813 ratings
37.
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland 4.07 avg rating β€” 51,979 ratings
38.
Against the Loveless World
Against the Loveless World 4.50 avg rating β€” 27,478 ratings
39.
The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians 3.69 avg rating β€” 102,592 ratings
40.
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) 3.96 avg rating β€” 11,760 ratings
41.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
The Last Story of Mina Lee 3.53 avg rating β€” 45,199 ratings
42.
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3) 4.49 avg rating β€” 69,923 ratings
43.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday 3.64 avg rating β€” 2,910 ratings
43.
One Year of Ugly
One Year of Ugly 3.77 avg rating β€” 2,225 ratings
45.
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold 3.94 avg rating β€” 17,169 ratings
46.
The Undocumented Americans
The Undocumented Americans 4.38 avg rating β€” 25,053 ratings
47.
Betty
Betty 4.41 avg rating β€” 52,488 ratings
48.
A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Petal of the Sea 4.06 avg rating β€” 110,105 ratings
49.
The Thirty Names of Night
The Thirty Names of Night 4.02 avg rating β€” 5,054 ratings
50.
American Dirt
American Dirt 4.37 avg rating β€” 656,871 ratings
51.
Everywhere You Don't Belong
Everywhere You Don't Belong 3.68 avg rating β€” 3,806 ratings
52.
A House Is a Body
A House Is a Body 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,250 ratings
52.
At Night All Blood is Black
At Night All Blood is Black 3.81 avg rating β€” 26,953 ratings
54.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 4.17 avg rating β€” 179,583 ratings
55.
Bestiary
Bestiary 3.44 avg rating β€” 3,976 ratings
56.
Lakewood
Lakewood 3.47 avg rating β€” 13,436 ratings
57.
Winter Counts
Winter Counts 3.84 avg rating β€” 22,673 ratings
58.
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 19,818 ratings
59.
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land 3.50 avg rating β€” 4,587 ratings
60.
What's Left of Me Is Yours
What's Left of Me Is Yours 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,124 ratings
61.
Nine Bar Blues
Nine Bar Blues 4.05 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
62.
This Town Sleeps: A Novel
This Town Sleeps: A Novel 3.52 avg rating β€” 1,801 ratings
63.
Rainbow Milk
Rainbow Milk 3.86 avg rating β€” 7,002 ratings
64.
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line 3.81 avg rating β€” 11,603 ratings
64.
Fifty Words for Rain
Fifty Words for Rain 3.88 avg rating β€” 45,943 ratings
66.
The Beauty of Your Face
The Beauty of Your Face 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,656 ratings
67.
The Vanished Birds
The Vanished Birds 4.07 avg rating β€” 9,766 ratings
68.
Afterlife
Afterlife 3.70 avg rating β€” 17,763 ratings
69.
Foreign Bodies: Poems
Foreign Bodies: Poems 3.71 avg rating β€” 165 ratings
70.
Remembrance
Remembrance 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,983 ratings
71.
Tokyo Ueno Station
Tokyo Ueno Station 3.45 avg rating β€” 28,916 ratings
72.
New Waves
New Waves 3.49 avg rating β€” 2,618 ratings
73.
Night Theater
Night Theater 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,918 ratings
74.
My Mother's House
My Mother's House 3.37 avg rating β€” 474 ratings
75.
So We Can Glow: Stories
So We Can Glow: Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,316 ratings
76.
Passage West
Passage West 4.11 avg rating β€” 833 ratings
77.
Memorial
Memorial 3.57 avg rating β€” 37,144 ratings
78.
Crooked Hallelujah
Crooked Hallelujah 3.48 avg rating β€” 3,386 ratings
79.
The Taste of Sugar
The Taste of Sugar 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,914 ratings
80.
A Girl Is a Body of Water
A Girl Is a Body of Water 4.15 avg rating β€” 8,332 ratings
81.
On Fragile Waves
On Fragile Waves 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,837 ratings
82.
The Coyotes of Carthage
The Coyotes of Carthage 3.49 avg rating β€” 1,035 ratings
83.
The God Child
The God Child 3.11 avg rating β€” 299 ratings
84.
The Subtweet
The Subtweet 3.68 avg rating β€” 4,046 ratings
85.
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,343 ratings
85.
Officer Clemmons
Officer Clemmons 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,712 ratings
87.
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy 4.43 avg rating β€” 4,086 ratings
88.
A Single Swallow
A Single Swallow 4.16 avg rating β€” 9,986 ratings
88.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 4.15 avg rating β€” 40,531 ratings
90.
The Book of Echoes
The Book of Echoes 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,052 ratings
91.
Trouble the Saints
Trouble the Saints 3.36 avg rating β€” 1,959 ratings
92.
Amnesty
Amnesty 3.27 avg rating β€” 4,510 ratings
93.
Telephone
Telephone 3.98 avg rating β€” 5,532 ratings
94.
Ship of Fates
Ship of Fates 3.70 avg rating β€” 109 ratings
94.
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,419 ratings
96.
These Women
These Women 3.78 avg rating β€” 7,608 ratings
97.
Track Changes
Track Changes 3.68 avg rating β€” 400 ratings
97.
It Is Wood, It Is Stone
It Is Wood, It Is Stone 3.43 avg rating β€” 2,421 ratings
99.
The House of Deep Water
The House of Deep Water 3.33 avg rating β€” 912 ratings
99.
Animals at the End of the World
Animals at the End of the World 3.75 avg rating β€” 556 ratings
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