Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2023

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The Only Daughter
The Only Daughter 3.19 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Decent People
Decent People 3.58 avg rating — 2,140 ratings
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A Right Worthy Woman
A Right Worthy Woman 3.74 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Daughter in Exile
Daughter in Exile 3.88 avg rating — 921 ratings
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You Are Here
You Are Here 3.74 avg rating — 4,000 ratings
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Rootless
Rootless 3.83 avg rating — 4,996 ratings
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What Napoleon Could Not Do
What Napoleon Could Not Do 3.42 avg rating — 772 ratings
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The Nigerwife
The Nigerwife 3.55 avg rating — 6,229 ratings
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What We Found in Hallelujah
What We Found in Hallelujah 3.97 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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My Nemesis
My Nemesis 3.39 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Your Driver Is Waiting
Your Driver Is Waiting 3.25 avg rating — 7,408 ratings
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Stealing
Stealing 4.04 avg rating — 2,949 ratings
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Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley 4.11 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Promises of Gold
Promises of Gold 4.36 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History 3.85 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Victory City
Victory City 3.76 avg rating — 13,926 ratings
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Under the Tamarind Tree
Under the Tamarind Tree 3.74 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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Late Bloomers
Late Bloomers 3.74 avg rating — 5,770 ratings
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Bellies
Bellies 4.03 avg rating — 10,713 ratings
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Tropicália
Tropicália 3.70 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Hangman
Hangman 3.57 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
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Sink: A Memoir
Sink: A Memoir 3.68 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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House Woman
House Woman 3.27 avg rating — 591 ratings
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The Unfortunates
The Unfortunates 3.81 avg rating — 792 ratings
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories 4.03 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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The Three of Us
The Three of Us 2.91 avg rating — 7,490 ratings
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare 3.61 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Las Madres
Las Madres 4.03 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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We Are a Haunting
We Are a Haunting 3.66 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)
Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 4,529 ratings
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On the Savage Side
On the Savage Side 4.07 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
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Every Rising Sun
Every Rising Sun 3.92 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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The Daughters of Madurai
The Daughters of Madurai 4.10 avg rating — 6,396 ratings
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The Woman Beyond the Sea
The Woman Beyond the Sea really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories 4.36 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Dances
Dances 3.75 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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The History of a Difficult Child
The History of a Difficult Child 3.73 avg rating — 591 ratings
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One True Wish
One True Wish it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Hope You Are Satisfied
Hope You Are Satisfied 3.76 avg rating — 126 ratings
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A Negro and an Ofay (The Tales of Elliot Caprice Book 1)
A Negro and an Ofay (The Tales of Elliot Caprice Book 1) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Those We Thought We Knew
Those We Thought We Knew
by: David Joy
4.29 avg rating — 3,603 ratings
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The Blue Is Where God Lives
The Blue Is Where God Lives 3.65 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Advika and the Hollywood Wives
Advika and the Hollywood Wives 3.14 avg rating — 8,918 ratings
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VenCo
VenCo 3.77 avg rating — 11,297 ratings
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Fractured Soul
Fractured Soul 4.02 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
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Hula
Hula 3.95 avg rating — 5,934 ratings
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The Best Possible Experience: Stories
The Best Possible Experience: Stories 4.09 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Y/N
Y/N
by: Esther Yi
2.92 avg rating — 8,172 ratings
149.
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 729,635 ratings
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The Faraway World: Stories
The Faraway World: Stories 3.88 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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Tomb of Sand
Tomb of Sand 3.68 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories
A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories 3.70 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The All-American
The All-American 3.65 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Central Places
Central Places
by: Delia Cai
3.49 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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The Laughter
The Laughter 3.88 avg rating — 2,041 ratings
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The East Indian
The East Indian 3.81 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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Cursed Bunny
Cursed Bunny 3.76 avg rating — 37,400 ratings
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La Tercera
La Tercera 3.22 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Monstrilio
Monstrilio 4.11 avg rating — 32,581 ratings
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The Light at the End of the World
The Light at the End of the World 3.03 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Glass Bottle Season
Glass Bottle Season 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Lush Lives
Lush Lives 3.26 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Butter: Short Fiction
Butter: Short Fiction 3.16 avg rating — 150 ratings
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You Can't Stay Here Forever
You Can't Stay Here Forever 3.11 avg rating — 2,435 ratings
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Welcome Me to the Kingdom 3.50 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Rosewater
Rosewater 3.62 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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Banyan Moon
Banyan Moon
by: Thao Thai
3.90 avg rating — 31,378 ratings
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Stories No One Hopes Are About Them
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them 3.89 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Fear and Lovely
Fear and Lovely 3.99 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Code Noir
Code Noir 3.54 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Crow Mary
Crow Mary 4.35 avg rating — 19,271 ratings
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Cool. Awkward. Black.
Cool. Awkward. Black. 3.95 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: A Vibrant Collection of Feminist Short Stories Illuminating the Voices of Women in Turbulent Times―Get Lost in the Pages of This Captivating Summer Read
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: A Vibrant Collection of Feminist Short Stories Illuminating the Voices of Women in Turbulent Times―Get Lost in the Pages of This Captivating Summer Read 3.74 avg rating — 210 ratings
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A Quitter's Paradise
A Quitter's Paradise 2.85 avg rating — 3,443 ratings
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I'm Still Here (Adapted for Young Readers): Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me
I'm Still Here (Adapted for Young Readers): Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me 4.63 avg rating — 169 ratings
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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster 3.91 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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And Then He Sang a Lullaby
And Then He Sang a Lullaby 4.15 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Innards: Stories
Innards: Stories 3.70 avg rating — 148 ratings
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History's Angel
History's Angel 3.73 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Holler, Child: Stories
Holler, Child: Stories 4.13 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Sorrows of Others
The Sorrows of Others
by: Ada Zhang
4.08 avg rating — 719 ratings
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The God of Good Looks
The God of Good Looks 3.92 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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When the Hibiscus Falls
When the Hibiscus Falls 4.03 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Marriage Box
The Marriage Box 3.63 avg rating — 879 ratings
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The Brightest Star
The Brightest Star 3.48 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
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Dearborn
Dearborn 4.20 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend 3.69 avg rating — 35,992 ratings
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The Berry Pickers
The Berry Pickers 4.09 avg rating — 240,557 ratings
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The Unsettled
The Unsettled 3.52 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
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Age of Vice
Age of Vice 3.61 avg rating — 33,080 ratings
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Small Worlds
Small Worlds 4.28 avg rating — 10,581 ratings
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My Name Is Iris
My Name Is Iris 3.36 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel 4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings
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