52 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2020

1.
Navigate Your Stars
Navigate Your Stars 4.19 avg rating β€” 3,580 ratings
2.
Remembrance
Remembrance 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,983 ratings
3.
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by: Zen Cho
3.61 avg rating β€” 7,263 ratings
4.
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays 3.81 avg rating β€” 46,928 ratings
5.
Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.10 avg rating β€” 158,631 ratings
6.
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
7.
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,343 ratings
8.
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir 4.45 avg rating β€” 731 ratings
9.
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,277 ratings
10.
Running
Running really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,640 ratings
11.
The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem 3.19 avg rating β€” 414 ratings
12.
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,228 ratings
13.
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,069 ratings
14.
Little Gods
Little Gods
by: Meng Jin
3.60 avg rating β€” 5,083 ratings
14.
Married It's Complicated
Married It's Complicated it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
16.
The Majesties
The Majesties 3.28 avg rating β€” 3,791 ratings
17.
A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating β€” 3,588 ratings
18.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday 3.64 avg rating β€” 2,910 ratings
19.
b, Book, and Me
b, Book, and Me
by: Kim Sagwa
3.37 avg rating β€” 451 ratings
20.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 4.19 avg rating β€” 43,072 ratings
21.
These Ghosts Are Family
These Ghosts Are Family 3.66 avg rating β€” 7,587 ratings
22.
Beneath the Rising (Beneath the Rising, #1)
Beneath the Rising (Beneath the Rising, #1) 3.46 avg rating β€” 1,362 ratings
23.
The Kingdom of Back
The Kingdom of Back
by: Marie Lu
3.70 avg rating β€” 23,359 ratings
24.
Prairie Lotus
Prairie Lotus 4.28 avg rating β€” 8,907 ratings
25.
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education 4.22 avg rating β€” 518 ratings
26.
So We Can Glow: Stories
So We Can Glow: Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,316 ratings
27.
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue (A Sassy Cat Mystery, #1)
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue (A Sassy Cat Mystery, #1) 3.39 avg rating β€” 1,885 ratings
28.
Deceit and Other Possibilities
Deceit and Other Possibilities 4.08 avg rating β€” 693 ratings
29.
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism 3.97 avg rating β€” 119 ratings
30.
The Mountains Sing
The Mountains Sing 4.31 avg rating β€” 57,468 ratings
31.
Days of Distraction
Days of Distraction 3.56 avg rating β€” 6,488 ratings
32.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
How Much of These Hills Is Gold 3.78 avg rating β€” 25,960 ratings
33.
The Beauty of Your Face
The Beauty of Your Face 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,657 ratings
34.
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 19,818 ratings
35.
The Silence of Bones
The Silence of Bones
by: June Hur
3.82 avg rating β€” 7,011 ratings
36.
If I Had Your Face
If I Had Your Face 3.74 avg rating β€” 57,015 ratings
37.
Little Eyes
Little Eyes 3.59 avg rating β€” 22,588 ratings
38.
Seven Years of Darkness
Seven Years of Darkness 3.71 avg rating β€” 3,371 ratings
39.
My Summer of Love and Misfortune
My Summer of Love and Misfortune 2.80 avg rating β€” 708 ratings
40.
The Library of Legends
The Library of Legends 3.79 avg rating β€” 11,224 ratings
41.
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1) 3.73 avg rating β€” 11,846 ratings
42.
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias 3.83 avg rating β€” 563 ratings
43.
Last Tang Standing
Last Tang Standing
by: Lauren Ho
3.51 avg rating β€” 17,494 ratings
44.
We Are Not Free
We Are Not Free 4.31 avg rating β€” 12,019 ratings
45.
Tokyo Ueno Station
Tokyo Ueno Station 3.45 avg rating β€” 28,919 ratings
46.
Opium and Absinthe
Opium and Absinthe 3.94 avg rating β€” 22,375 ratings
47.
The Color of Air
The Color of Air 3.82 avg rating β€” 4,476 ratings
48.
Luster
Luster 3.51 avg rating β€” 107,785 ratings
49.
A House Is a Body
A House Is a Body 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,250 ratings
50.
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America 4.40 avg rating β€” 16,872 ratings
51.
Rent a Boyfriend
Rent a Boyfriend 3.51 avg rating β€” 5,511 ratings
52.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000 4.21 avg rating β€” 429 ratings
53.
Weird but Normal: Essays on the Awkward, Uncomfortable, Surprisingly Regular Parts of Being Human
Weird but Normal: Essays on the Awkward, Uncomfortable, Surprisingly Regular Parts of Being Human 3.48 avg rating β€” 1,565 ratings