43 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2021

1.
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 10,598 ratings
2.
Yolk
Yolk 3.95 avg rating — 30,477 ratings
3.
Firekeeper's Daughter
Firekeeper's Daughter 4.31 avg rating — 188,981 ratings
4.
The Other Black Girl
The Other Black Girl 3.35 avg rating — 82,110 ratings
5.
The Bennet Women
The Bennet Women 3.76 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
6.
Dog Flowers: A Memoir
Dog Flowers: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
7.
Milk Blood Heat
Milk Blood Heat 4.02 avg rating — 9,851 ratings
7.
Infinite Country
Infinite Country 3.93 avg rating — 49,151 ratings
9.
This Close to Okay
This Close to Okay 3.70 avg rating — 23,461 ratings
9.
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
11.
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever 3.97 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
12.
Libertie
Libertie 3.49 avg rating — 15,591 ratings
13.
What's Mine and Yours
What's Mine and Yours 3.55 avg rating — 22,903 ratings
14.
Peaces
Peaces 3.24 avg rating — 4,781 ratings
15.
Of Women and Salt
Of Women and Salt 3.69 avg rating — 47,924 ratings
16.
Somebody's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter 4.02 avg rating — 71,676 ratings
17.
While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)
While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 43,874 ratings
17.
Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy 3.82 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
17.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by: Kat Chow
3.93 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
20.
My Good Son
My Good Son 3.87 avg rating — 114 ratings
21.
Aftershocks
Aftershocks 3.90 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
21.
Shiloh and Dande the Lion: Embrace diversity, accept others, and courageously be yourself!
Shiloh and Dande the Lion: Embrace diversity, accept others, and courageously be yourself! 4.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
23.
Bride of the Sea
Bride of the Sea 3.58 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
23.
Sugar Town Queens
Sugar Town Queens 4.02 avg rating — 797 ratings
23.
Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa
Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa 4.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
26.
Sankofa
Sankofa 3.84 avg rating — 22,471 ratings
27.
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by: Koa Beck
4.25 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
28.
Love Is an Ex-Country
Love Is an Ex-Country 3.58 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
29.
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Land of Big Numbers: Stories 3.94 avg rating — 9,032 ratings
30.
The Arsonists' City
The Arsonists' City 4.31 avg rating — 7,707 ratings
31.
Silence Is a Sense
Silence Is a Sense 4.05 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
32.
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer 3.57 avg rating — 568 ratings
33.
How Beautiful We Were
How Beautiful We Were 3.95 avg rating — 18,585 ratings
34.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,471 ratings
35.
Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change 4.19 avg rating — 135 ratings
36.
White Magic
White Magic 3.77 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
37.
The Five Wounds
The Five Wounds 4.13 avg rating — 19,165 ratings
38.
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
by: Syan Rose
4.20 avg rating — 783 ratings
39.
Caul Baby
Caul Baby 3.78 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
40.
Whereabouts
Whereabouts 3.76 avg rating — 33,612 ratings
41.
Swimming Back to Trout River
Swimming Back to Trout River 3.87 avg rating — 2,667 ratings
42.
The President and the Frog
The President and the Frog 4.02 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
43.
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
by: Anna Qu
3.85 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
44.
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation 3.97 avg rating — 7,597 ratings
45.
Transitional: The landmark manifesto from the pioneering activist and model
Transitional: The landmark manifesto from the pioneering activist and model 4.07 avg rating — 692 ratings
46.
The Perishing
The Perishing 2.83 avg rating — 4,223 ratings
47.
Carefree Black Girls
Carefree Black Girls
by: Zeba Blay
4.31 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
48.
The Incendiaries
The Incendiaries
by: R.O. Kwon
3.21 avg rating — 25,022 ratings