Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2021

1.
The Kindest Lie
The Kindest Lie 3.56 avg rating โ€” 22,582 ratings
2.
No Heaven for Good Boys
No Heaven for Good Boys 4.27 avg rating โ€” 1,214 ratings
3.
The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating โ€” 21,640 ratings
4.
Black Buck
Black Buck 3.70 avg rating โ€” 28,626 ratings
5.
Open Water
Open Water 4.01 avg rating โ€” 81,880 ratings
6.
Sorrowland
Sorrowland 3.82 avg rating โ€” 14,493 ratings
7.
The Removed
The Removed 3.38 avg rating โ€” 12,937 ratings
8.
Milk Blood Heat
Milk Blood Heat 4.02 avg rating โ€” 9,850 ratings
9.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 3.68 avg rating โ€” 16,158 ratings
10.
Honey Girl
Honey Girl 3.65 avg rating โ€” 44,821 ratings
11.
The Arsonists' City
The Arsonists' City 4.31 avg rating โ€” 7,708 ratings
12.
Filthy Animals
Filthy Animals 3.63 avg rating โ€” 9,744 ratings
13.
Infinite Country
Infinite Country 3.93 avg rating โ€” 49,160 ratings
14.
Of Women and Salt
Of Women and Salt 3.69 avg rating โ€” 47,931 ratings
14.
This Close to Okay
This Close to Okay 3.70 avg rating โ€” 23,463 ratings
16.
My Year Abroad
My Year Abroad 3.41 avg rating โ€” 8,065 ratings
17.
Bride of the Sea
Bride of the Sea 3.58 avg rating โ€” 1,978 ratings
17.
Afterparties
Afterparties 3.93 avg rating โ€” 14,486 ratings
19.
The Bad Muslim Discount
The Bad Muslim Discount 4.14 avg rating โ€” 10,730 ratings
20.
Red Island House
Red Island House 3.60 avg rating โ€” 2,927 ratings
21.
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) 3.73 avg rating โ€” 78,427 ratings
22.
The Other Black Girl
The Other Black Girl 3.35 avg rating โ€” 82,119 ratings
23.
Caul Baby
Caul Baby 3.78 avg rating โ€” 4,009 ratings
24.
Things We Lost to the Water
Things We Lost to the Water 3.75 avg rating โ€” 11,440 ratings
25.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev 3.82 avg rating โ€” 32,781 ratings
26.
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) 3.96 avg rating โ€” 11,765 ratings
26.
Popisho
Popisho 3.82 avg rating โ€” 4,100 ratings
28.
Libertie
Libertie 3.49 avg rating โ€” 15,591 ratings
29.
The Rib King
The Rib King 3.49 avg rating โ€” 2,288 ratings
30.
How Beautiful We Were
How Beautiful We Were 3.95 avg rating โ€” 18,584 ratings
31.
Gold Diggers
Gold Diggers 3.58 avg rating โ€” 11,460 ratings
32.
Sparks Like Stars
Sparks Like Stars 4.28 avg rating โ€” 22,028 ratings
33.
Build Your House Around My Body
Build Your House Around My Body 3.81 avg rating โ€” 9,315 ratings
33.
Yellow Wife
Yellow Wife 4.43 avg rating โ€” 78,885 ratings
33.
Radiant Fugitives
Radiant Fugitives 3.65 avg rating โ€” 1,547 ratings
36.
White Magic
White Magic 3.77 avg rating โ€” 1,611 ratings
36.
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror Sheโ€™s Black, #1)
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror Sheโ€™s Black, #1) 3.81 avg rating โ€” 10,600 ratings
36.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by: Kat Chow
3.93 avg rating โ€” 3,328 ratings
36.
Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, #1)
Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, #1) 4.07 avg rating โ€” 3,807 ratings
40.
Voices of the Lost
Voices of the Lost 3.05 avg rating โ€” 3,223 ratings
41.
The Five Wounds
The Five Wounds 4.13 avg rating โ€” 19,168 ratings
42.
All the Water I've Seen Is Running
All the Water I've Seen Is Running 3.54 avg rating โ€” 733 ratings
43.
Dear Miss Metropolitan
Dear Miss Metropolitan 3.15 avg rating โ€” 1,480 ratings
43.
Impostor Syndrome
Impostor Syndrome 3.27 avg rating โ€” 9,478 ratings
45.
What Strange Paradise
What Strange Paradise 4.04 avg rating โ€” 16,117 ratings
45.
Revival Season
Revival Season 3.64 avg rating โ€” 3,741 ratings
45.
Love Is an Ex-Country
Love Is an Ex-Country 3.57 avg rating โ€” 1,273 ratings
48.
The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Chosen and the Beautiful
by: Nghi Vo
3.55 avg rating โ€” 18,443 ratings
49.
The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water 4.14 avg rating โ€” 58,228 ratings
49.
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself 3.78 avg rating โ€” 3,735 ratings
51.
How I Learned to Hate in Ohio
How I Learned to Hate in Ohio 3.67 avg rating โ€” 511 ratings
52.
Seven Days in June
Seven Days in June really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 205,496 ratings
53.
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian 4.05 avg rating โ€” 212,759 ratings
54.
What's Mine and Yours
What's Mine and Yours 3.55 avg rating โ€” 22,904 ratings
55.
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Land of Big Numbers: Stories 3.94 avg rating โ€” 9,035 ratings
55.
Silence Is a Sense
Silence Is a Sense 4.05 avg rating โ€” 1,139 ratings
57.
Edge Case
Edge Case
by: YZ Chin
3.32 avg rating โ€” 1,240 ratings
58.
Palmares
Palmares 2.92 avg rating โ€” 847 ratings
59.
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 1,477 ratings
60.
Shallow Waters
Shallow Waters 3.67 avg rating โ€” 856 ratings
61.
Wild Women and the Blues
Wild Women and the Blues 3.77 avg rating โ€” 7,344 ratings
62.
The Days of Afrekete
The Days of Afrekete 3.47 avg rating โ€” 1,762 ratings
63.
The Teller of Secrets
The Teller of Secrets 3.82 avg rating โ€” 1,494 ratings
64.
My Brilliant Life
My Brilliant Life 3.99 avg rating โ€” 2,713 ratings
64.
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be 3.86 avg rating โ€” 2,827 ratings
66.
The Seed Keeper
The Seed Keeper 4.27 avg rating โ€” 21,564 ratings
66.
Heaven
Heaven 3.79 avg rating โ€” 80,596 ratings
68.
The Republic of False Truths
The Republic of False Truths 3.89 avg rating โ€” 4,496 ratings
68.
The Startup Wife
The Startup Wife 3.56 avg rating โ€” 9,218 ratings
68.
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground 3.94 avg rating โ€” 3,293 ratings
68.
Slipping
Slipping 3.74 avg rating โ€” 373 ratings
72.
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily 3.39 avg rating โ€” 94 ratings
72.
My First and Only Love
My First and Only Love 3.99 avg rating โ€” 828 ratings
72.
The Ardent Swarm
The Ardent Swarm 4.09 avg rating โ€” 8,228 ratings
75.
A Passage North
A Passage North 3.70 avg rating โ€” 8,658 ratings
76.
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer 3.57 avg rating โ€” 568 ratings
77.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 4.51 avg rating โ€” 39,961 ratings
78.
Virtue
Virtue 3.40 avg rating โ€” 746 ratings
79.
The Parted Earth
The Parted Earth 3.96 avg rating โ€” 1,967 ratings
80.
O Beautiful
O Beautiful
by: Jung Yun
3.65 avg rating โ€” 4,144 ratings
81.
Hades, Argentina
Hades, Argentina 3.74 avg rating โ€” 1,514 ratings
82.
Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost 3.08 avg rating โ€” 450 ratings
83.
The City of Good Death
The City of Good Death 3.98 avg rating โ€” 253 ratings
84.
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage 3.97 avg rating โ€” 1,506 ratings
85.
Ramadan Ramsey
Ramadan Ramsey 3.82 avg rating โ€” 643 ratings
85.
Blue Skinned Gods
Blue Skinned Gods 3.90 avg rating โ€” 3,497 ratings
87.
City of a Thousand Gates
City of a Thousand Gates
by: Bee Sacks
3.53 avg rating โ€” 1,182 ratings
88.
Take What You Can Carry
Take What You Can Carry 4.35 avg rating โ€” 12,567 ratings
89.
My Good Son
My Good Son 3.87 avg rating โ€” 114 ratings
90.
My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
My Old Home: A Novel of Exile 4.26 avg rating โ€” 125 ratings
90.
Go Home, Ricky!
Go Home, Ricky!
by: Gene Kwak
3.73 avg rating โ€” 410 ratings
92.
Are You Enjoying?
Are You Enjoying? 3.21 avg rating โ€” 1,009 ratings
92.
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories 3.79 avg rating โ€” 464 ratings
94.
Skinship
Skinship
by: Yoon Choi
4.15 avg rating โ€” 2,248 ratings
95.
Hell of a Book
Hell of a Book 4.03 avg rating โ€” 25,834 ratings
96.
The Secret Talker
The Secret Talker 3.08 avg rating โ€” 3,083 ratings
97.
A Past That Breathes
A Past That Breathes 3.24 avg rating โ€” 29 ratings
98.
Intimacies
Intimacies 3.64 avg rating โ€” 38,890 ratings
99.
The Fugitivities
The Fugitivities 3.70 avg rating โ€” 140 ratings
100.
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018 4.13 avg rating โ€” 67 ratings
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