Anticipated Literary Reads for Readers of Color 2013

101.
The Thirsty Earth
The Thirsty Earth 2.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
102.
The Purchase
The Purchase 3.42 avg rating β€” 2,223 ratings
102.
What We Ask Of Flesh
What We Ask Of Flesh 4.26 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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David
David 3.78 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
105.
Darius Twig
Darius Twig 3.65 avg rating β€” 1,112 ratings
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The Laura Line
The Laura Line 3.92 avg rating β€” 185 ratings
107.
Everything Was Goodbye
Everything Was Goodbye 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,048 ratings
108.
When the Night Whispers
When the Night Whispers 3.41 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
109.
The Broken King
The Broken King 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
110.
The Magic of Saida
The Magic of Saida 3.43 avg rating β€” 645 ratings
111.
P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters, #2)
P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters, #2) 4.07 avg rating β€” 7,113 ratings
112.
Black Star Nairobi
Black Star Nairobi 3.47 avg rating β€” 194 ratings
113.
Irki
Irki 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
114.
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating β€” 5,812 ratings
115.
Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,471 ratings
116.
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? 4.02 avg rating β€” 7,185 ratings
117.
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,492 ratings
118.
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems 4.38 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
119.
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers 4.53 avg rating β€” 243 ratings
120.
The Walking
The Walking 3.64 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
121.
The Hired Man
The Hired Man 3.92 avg rating β€” 4,318 ratings
121.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,660 ratings
123.
Mr Loverman
Mr Loverman 4.19 avg rating β€” 17,201 ratings
124.
The Resurrectionist
The Resurrectionist 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,279 ratings
125.
Death at the Voyager Hotel
Death at the Voyager Hotel 3.57 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
126.
Black Venus
Black Venus 3.30 avg rating β€” 208 ratings
126.
The Sound of Things Falling
The Sound of Things Falling 3.84 avg rating β€” 20,628 ratings
128.
Hidden Currents
Hidden Currents 4.08 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
128.
Mending the Moon
Mending the Moon 3.77 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
128.
The Fig Orchard
The Fig Orchard 4.14 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
128.
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #5)
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #5) 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,389 ratings
128.
The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle
The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
128.
The Offenders: Saving the world, while serving detention!
The Offenders: Saving the world, while serving detention! 4.14 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
128.
Re-Divining Self
Re-Divining Self 4.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
128.
My Name Is Thank-You
My Name Is Thank-You 4.28 avg rating β€” 318 ratings
128.
Red River
Red River 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,438 ratings
128.
His PhD is in Hypocrisy: And Other Poems about My Crappy Ex-Boyfriend
His PhD is in Hypocrisy: And Other Poems about My Crappy Ex-Boyfriend 4.14 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
128.
Altered
Altered 3.73 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
128.
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1)
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1) 3.78 avg rating β€” 3,850 ratings
128.
The Fury of Angels (Book One of The Damned Reflections Trilogy)
The Fury of Angels (Book One of The Damned Reflections Trilogy) 4.83 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
141.
Vauxhall
Vauxhall 3.66 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
141.
Anatomy of a Disappearance
Anatomy of a Disappearance 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,824 ratings
141.
Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington, #26)
Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington, #26) 3.94 avg rating β€” 6,707 ratings
141.
I'jaam
I'jaam 3.60 avg rating β€” 2,392 ratings
141.
Midnight and the Meaning of Love (The Midnight Series)
Midnight and the Meaning of Love (The Midnight Series) 4.28 avg rating β€” 3,881 ratings
146.
Always Yours
Always Yours 3.79 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
146.
Boldfaced Lies
Boldfaced Lies 3.14 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
146.
The Fever Tree
The Fever Tree 3.71 avg rating β€” 7,052 ratings
146.
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations 4.07 avg rating β€” 271 ratings
150.
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer 3.81 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
150.
Daddy Was a Number Runner
Daddy Was a Number Runner 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,365 ratings
152.
Dog Days (The Carver Chronicles, #1)
Dog Days (The Carver Chronicles, #1) 3.29 avg rating β€” 227 ratings
152.
The Suspect
The Suspect 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,384 ratings
154.
Midnight
Midnight 4.13 avg rating β€” 8,846 ratings
155.
Tropic Death
Tropic Death 3.56 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
156.
Black Crow Dress
Black Crow Dress 3.95 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
157.
Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty Years Old
Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty Years Old 3.75 avg rating β€” 659 ratings
158.
Heron Fleet
Heron Fleet 3.07 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
159.
The Sculptors of Mapungubwe
The Sculptors of Mapungubwe
by: Zakes Mda
3.87 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
160.
Where The Sun Shines Best (200) (Essential Poets series)
Where The Sun Shines Best (200) (Essential Poets series) 3.45 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
161.
Down Second Avenue
Down Second Avenue 3.82 avg rating β€” 434 ratings
162.
That'd Be Right
That'd Be Right 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
162.
Black Pulp
Black Pulp 3.97 avg rating β€” 142 ratings
164.
Pepper Seed
Pepper Seed 4.19 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
164.
Steamfunk!
Steamfunk! 4.24 avg rating β€” 109 ratings
166.
And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems
And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
167.
Scratching the Ghost: Poems
Scratching the Ghost: Poems 4.35 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
168.
There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan 3.62 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
169.
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti 3.75 avg rating β€” 448 ratings
170.
Black Lightning
Black Lightning 3.94 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
171.
The Big Smoke
The Big Smoke 4.04 avg rating β€” 519 ratings
172.
Present Darkness (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #4)
Present Darkness (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #4) 4.10 avg rating β€” 670 ratings
173.
The Keys of My Soul: A novel
The Keys of My Soul: A novel 4.64 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
174.
From Rum to Roots
From Rum to Roots 4.12 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
175.
Good Man Friday (Benjamin January, #12)
Good Man Friday (Benjamin January, #12) 4.14 avg rating β€” 661 ratings
175.
Way Back Home
Way Back Home 3.78 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
177.
The Orchard of Lost Souls
The Orchard of Lost Souls 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,815 ratings
178.
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,482 ratings
179.
Snow Hunters
Snow Hunters
by: Paul Yoon
3.68 avg rating β€” 2,946 ratings
180.
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Every Boy Should Have a Man 3.45 avg rating β€” 247 ratings
181.
The Beggar's Opera (Inspector RamΓ­rez, #1)
The Beggar's Opera (Inspector RamΓ­rez, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 865 ratings
182.
All Decent Animals
All Decent Animals 3.08 avg rating β€” 104 ratings
183.
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom 4.18 avg rating β€” 440 ratings
184.
Together Tea
Together Tea really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,518 ratings
185.
This Is Paradise: Stories
This Is Paradise: Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,549 ratings
186.
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World 3.98 avg rating β€” 931 ratings
187.
King of Cuba
King of Cuba 3.37 avg rating β€” 550 ratings
188.
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island 3.30 avg rating β€” 321 ratings
189.
The Church Builder (The Church Builder Series #1)
The Church Builder (The Church Builder Series #1) 3.78 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
190.
What the River Washed Away
What the River Washed Away 4.06 avg rating β€” 225 ratings
191.
The Tuner of Silences
The Tuner of Silences
by: Mia Couto
4.03 avg rating β€” 2,668 ratings
192.
The Night of the Rambler
The Night of the Rambler 3.35 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
193.
Kabu Kabu
Kabu Kabu 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,805 ratings
194.
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson 4.26 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
195.
Fallen Land
Fallen Land 3.59 avg rating β€” 413 ratings
196.
A Star in the Face of the Sky
A Star in the Face of the Sky 4.08 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Sketcher
Sketcher 3.69 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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