Reading BIPOC Authors

1.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by: Kat Chow
3.93 avg rating β€” 3,328 ratings
2.
My Monticello
My Monticello 3.90 avg rating β€” 9,797 ratings
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica 3.98 avg rating β€” 2,471 ratings
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Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating β€” 555,895 ratings
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Mycroft Holmes (Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock, #1)
Mycroft Holmes (Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock, #1) 3.76 avg rating β€” 9,670 ratings
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Crazy Brave
Crazy Brave
by: Joy Harjo
4.20 avg rating β€” 7,639 ratings
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto 4.13 avg rating β€” 4,029 ratings
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The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels 3.88 avg rating β€” 18,829 ratings
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Boundaries
Boundaries
by: Maya Lin
4.34 avg rating β€” 293 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating β€” 55,310 ratings
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Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow 4.43 avg rating β€” 142 ratings
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The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic 3.70 avg rating β€” 62,392 ratings
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Genesis (Memory of Fire #1)
Genesis (Memory of Fire #1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen 4.31 avg rating β€” 14,904 ratings
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) 3.45 avg rating β€” 30,284 ratings
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating β€” 375,245 ratings
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White Ivy
White Ivy 3.55 avg rating β€” 33,790 ratings
18.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating β€” 176,493 ratings
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 4.51 avg rating β€” 39,965 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 3.91 avg rating β€” 10,431 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 477,046 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca 4.11 avg rating β€” 3,689 ratings
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The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali 3.95 avg rating β€” 336 ratings
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed 3.80 avg rating β€” 56,824 ratings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating β€” 37,308 ratings
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Living Room
Living Room 4.31 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
27.
The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,174 ratings
28.
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
by: Ken Liu
3.80 avg rating β€” 26,879 ratings
29.
Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California
Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California 4.33 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
Gods of Jade and Shadow 3.88 avg rating β€” 74,734 ratings
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The Sentence
The Sentence 3.94 avg rating β€” 79,852 ratings
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Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i 4.50 avg rating β€” 141 ratings
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Remote Control
Remote Control 3.85 avg rating β€” 18,520 ratings
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 333,099 ratings
35.
What Strange Paradise
What Strange Paradise 4.04 avg rating β€” 16,118 ratings
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Afterparties
Afterparties 3.93 avg rating β€” 14,485 ratings
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire 4.47 avg rating β€” 1,649 ratings
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain 4.09 avg rating β€” 8,333 ratings
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You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018 4.13 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
40.
The Properties of Perpetual Light
The Properties of Perpetual Light 4.66 avg rating β€” 265 ratings
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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice 4.29 avg rating β€” 1,757 ratings
42.
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War 4.21 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
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America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal 4.29 avg rating β€” 248 ratings
44.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating β€” 26,127 ratings
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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger 4.39 avg rating β€” 1,146 ratings
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Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,420 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 4.14 avg rating β€” 5,537 ratings
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The Taste of Sugar
The Taste of Sugar 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,916 ratings
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My Conversations with Canadians
My Conversations with Canadians 4.29 avg rating β€” 722 ratings
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The Shadow King
The Shadow King 3.66 avg rating β€” 14,623 ratings
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Intimations: Six Essays
Intimations: Six Essays 3.98 avg rating β€” 28,339 ratings
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Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe
Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,916 ratings
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey 4.34 avg rating β€” 976 ratings
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 4.68 avg rating β€” 677 ratings
55.
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove 4.12 avg rating β€” 7,196 ratings
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Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology 3.93 avg rating β€” 419 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating β€” 28,442 ratings
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How to Survive America
How to Survive America 3.93 avg rating β€” 641 ratings
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The Far Field
The Far Field 3.87 avg rating β€” 10,987 ratings
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My Name Is Why
My Name Is Why 4.29 avg rating β€” 12,809 ratings
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Your House Will Pay
Your House Will Pay
by: Steph Cha
4.08 avg rating β€” 10,196 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement 4.42 avg rating β€” 4,018 ratings
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Indian Killer
Indian Killer 3.78 avg rating β€” 8,201 ratings
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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire 4.56 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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Glory
Glory 3.70 avg rating β€” 5,634 ratings
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Four Treasures of the Sky 4.08 avg rating β€” 19,153 ratings
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The Ardent Swarm
The Ardent Swarm 4.09 avg rating β€” 8,229 ratings
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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 β€” 7,597 ratings
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War Talk
War Talk 4.10 avg rating β€” 928 ratings
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
by: Weiwei Ai
4.23 avg rating β€” 3,403 ratings
71.
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating β€” 31,468 ratings
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Erasure
Erasure 4.17 avg rating β€” 28,496 ratings
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Train Dreams
Train Dreams 3.90 avg rating β€” 29,240 ratings
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love 4.22 avg rating β€” 30,039 ratings
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Freshwater
Freshwater 4.01 avg rating β€” 35,608 ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 4.03 avg rating β€” 60,943 ratings
77.
The Return of Faraz Ali
The Return of Faraz Ali 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,591 ratings
78.
The Five Wounds
The Five Wounds 4.13 avg rating β€” 19,170 ratings
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Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories 3.61 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
80.
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (A Ferris and Ferris Book) 4.26 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
81.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating β€” 9,667 ratings
82.
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America 4.30 avg rating β€” 10,528 ratings
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Woman of Light
Woman of Light 3.64 avg rating β€” 13,624 ratings