Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2020

101.
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems 3.98 avg rating β€” 459 ratings
101.
Members Only
Members Only 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,830 ratings
103.
Song of a Captive Bird
Song of a Captive Bird 4.21 avg rating β€” 6,045 ratings
104.
Little Family
Little Family 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,532 ratings
105.
Empire of Wild
Empire of Wild 3.74 avg rating β€” 12,301 ratings
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Like Flies from Afar
Like Flies from Afar 3.21 avg rating β€” 982 ratings
107.
How Beautiful We Were
How Beautiful We Were 3.95 avg rating β€” 18,585 ratings
107.
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 654 ratings
109.
You Exist Too Much
You Exist Too Much 3.63 avg rating β€” 20,636 ratings
110.
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories from Japan
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories from Japan 3.43 avg rating β€” 226 ratings
111.
Love After Love
Love After Love 4.05 avg rating β€” 12,553 ratings
112.
The Law of Lines
The Law of Lines 3.22 avg rating β€” 593 ratings
113.
The New American
The New American 3.94 avg rating β€” 432 ratings
114.
Disappear DoppelgΓ€nger Disappear
Disappear DoppelgΓ€nger Disappear 3.47 avg rating β€” 276 ratings
115.
The Color of Air
The Color of Air 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,476 ratings
116.
Book of the Little Axe
Book of the Little Axe 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,337 ratings
117.
Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,142 ratings
118.
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,320 ratings
119.
You People
You People 3.53 avg rating β€” 1,469 ratings
120.
The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
by: Rudy Ruiz
3.75 avg rating β€” 608 ratings
121.
We Are Not Like Them
We Are Not Like Them 4.06 avg rating β€” 49,356 ratings
121.
What He Did in Solitary: Poems
What He Did in Solitary: Poems 3.96 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
123.
The Mermaid from Jeju
The Mermaid from Jeju
by: Sumi Hahn
3.89 avg rating β€” 4,097 ratings
124.
Even As We Breathe
Even As We Breathe 3.72 avg rating β€” 3,079 ratings
125.
Well-Behaved Indian Women
Well-Behaved Indian Women 3.77 avg rating β€” 5,257 ratings
126.
The Deep Blue Between
The Deep Blue Between 3.47 avg rating β€” 764 ratings
127.
Probably Ruby
Probably Ruby 3.48 avg rating β€” 2,329 ratings
128.
The Anthill
The Anthill 3.29 avg rating β€” 486 ratings
129.
Blue Flowers
Blue Flowers 2.78 avg rating β€” 680 ratings
129.
Deceit and Other Possibilities
Deceit and Other Possibilities 4.08 avg rating β€” 693 ratings
129.
In the Palace of Flowers
In the Palace of Flowers 3.70 avg rating β€” 242 ratings
129.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 108,386 ratings
129.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 4.16 avg rating β€” 18,850 ratings
134.
Summer on the Bluffs
Summer on the Bluffs 3.82 avg rating β€” 11,903 ratings
134.
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters 3.79 avg rating β€” 17,148 ratings
136.
DMZ Colony
DMZ Colony 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,196 ratings
136.
If I Had Two Wings
If I Had Two Wings 3.83 avg rating β€” 864 ratings
136.
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) 3.93 avg rating β€” 126,492 ratings
139.
Braised Pork
Braised Pork
by: An Yu
3.44 avg rating β€” 5,235 ratings
140.
Fat Time and Other Stories
Fat Time and Other Stories 4.09 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
140.
The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation, #1)
The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation, #1) 3.71 avg rating β€” 2,701 ratings
140.
The Bad Muslim Discount
The Bad Muslim Discount 4.14 avg rating β€” 10,730 ratings
143.
That Hair
That Hair 3.08 avg rating β€” 660 ratings
143.
Miss Meteor
Miss Meteor 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,451 ratings
145.
This Is Your Time
This Is Your Time 4.51 avg rating β€” 2,985 ratings
146.
Untamed Shore
Untamed Shore 3.77 avg rating β€” 4,857 ratings
146.
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,498 ratings
146.
His Only Wife
His Only Wife 3.74 avg rating β€” 32,250 ratings
149.
Nights When Nothing Happened
Nights When Nothing Happened
by: Simon Han
3.31 avg rating β€” 1,206 ratings
150.
Homeland Elegies
Homeland Elegies 4.13 avg rating β€” 24,289 ratings
151.
Only the River
Only the River 3.45 avg rating β€” 148 ratings
152.
A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)
A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2) 3.90 avg rating β€” 6,634 ratings
153.
Zo
Zo 3.92 avg rating β€” 199 ratings
154.
A Good Family
A Good Family
by: A.H. Kim
3.69 avg rating β€” 2,004 ratings
155.
This Lovely City
This Lovely City 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,424 ratings
156.
The Eighth Girl
The Eighth Girl 3.38 avg rating β€” 1,813 ratings
157.
The Holdout
The Holdout 3.83 avg rating β€” 34,858 ratings
158.
The King at the Edge of the World
The King at the Edge of the World 3.54 avg rating β€” 2,493 ratings
159.
A Good Neighborhood
A Good Neighborhood 3.81 avg rating β€” 57,765 ratings
160.
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2)
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2) 4.28 avg rating β€” 7,897 ratings
161.
Friend
Friend 3.49 avg rating β€” 567 ratings
162.
The Wandering
The Wandering 3.77 avg rating β€” 1,381 ratings
163.
Yellow Earth
Yellow Earth 3.69 avg rating β€” 258 ratings
164.
On Ajayi Crowther Street
On Ajayi Crowther Street 3.95 avg rating β€” 235 ratings
165.
Mother Land
Mother Land 3.70 avg rating β€” 2,568 ratings
166.
The Son of Good Fortune
The Son of Good Fortune 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,819 ratings
167.
Destination Wedding
Destination Wedding 3.26 avg rating β€” 3,669 ratings
168.
Saving Ruby King
Saving Ruby King 3.89 avg rating β€” 5,797 ratings
169.
The Library of Legends
The Library of Legends 3.79 avg rating β€” 11,224 ratings
170.
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems 4.14 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
171.
Here the Dark: A Novella and Stories
Here the Dark: A Novella and Stories 3.59 avg rating β€” 577 ratings
172.
Golden Poppies
Golden Poppies 4.11 avg rating β€” 16,258 ratings
173.
Once Upon a Sunset
Once Upon a Sunset 3.65 avg rating β€” 994 ratings
174.
Then the Fish Swallowed Him
Then the Fish Swallowed Him 3.62 avg rating β€” 876 ratings
175.
The Last Great Road Bum
The Last Great Road Bum 3.64 avg rating β€” 607 ratings
176.
Quotients
Quotients 3.24 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
177.
A Hundred Suns
A Hundred Suns 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,532 ratings
178.
Red Dress in Black & White
Red Dress in Black & White 3.54 avg rating β€” 616 ratings
179.
The Woman in Red
The Woman in Red 3.75 avg rating β€” 624 ratings
180.
Block Seventeen
Block Seventeen 3.43 avg rating β€” 296 ratings
181.
The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #4)
The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #4)
by: Ovidia Yu
4.17 avg rating β€” 942 ratings
182.
The Death of Comrade President
The Death of Comrade President 3.55 avg rating β€” 569 ratings
183.
Aphasia
Aphasia 3.67 avg rating β€” 232 ratings
184.
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown 4.15 avg rating β€” 8,695 ratings
185.
Jack (Gilead, #4)
Jack (Gilead, #4) 3.86 avg rating β€” 9,830 ratings
186.
White Ivy
White Ivy 3.55 avg rating β€” 33,783 ratings
187.
Sex and Vanity
Sex and Vanity 3.33 avg rating β€” 61,535 ratings
188.
Crosshairs
Crosshairs 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,877 ratings
189.
The Family Tree
The Family Tree 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,441 ratings
190.
Tell Me How to Be
Tell Me How to Be 4.15 avg rating β€” 5,392 ratings
191.
Indians on Vacation
Indians on Vacation 3.77 avg rating β€” 7,544 ratings
192.
People of the Canyons (North America's Forgotten Past #26)
People of the Canyons (North America's Forgotten Past #26) 4.13 avg rating β€” 230 ratings
193.
Polar Vortex
Polar Vortex 3.53 avg rating β€” 1,266 ratings
194.
The Mission House
The Mission House 3.78 avg rating β€” 1,731 ratings
195.
We Two Alone
We Two Alone
by: Jack Wang
3.73 avg rating β€” 670 ratings
196.
Both Sides: Stories From the Border
Both Sides: Stories From the Border 4.03 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
197.
Purple Lotus
Purple Lotus
by: Veena Rao
4.05 avg rating β€” 796 ratings
198.
Afterlives
Afterlives 3.77 avg rating β€” 13,277 ratings
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