Books by LGBTQ People of Color

1.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,254 ratings
2.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,173 ratings
3.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,085 ratings
4.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 4.29 avg rating — 663,178 ratings
5.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,728 ratings
6.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,212 ratings
7.
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings
8.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating — 375,169 ratings
9.
The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
10.
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 3,763 ratings
11.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,162 ratings
12.
Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath 4.16 avg rating — 16,966 ratings
13.
Freshwater
Freshwater 4.01 avg rating — 35,607 ratings
14.
Felix Ever After
Felix Ever After 4.22 avg rating — 65,711 ratings
15.
The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads 3.84 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
16.
Ash
Ash 3.63 avg rating — 37,571 ratings
17.
If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine 3.71 avg rating — 10,298 ratings
18.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask 3.95 avg rating — 37,131 ratings
19.
Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives
Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives
by: Nia King
4.41 avg rating — 196 ratings
20.
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva! 4.10 avg rating — 403 ratings
21.
The Deep
The Deep 3.77 avg rating — 38,707 ratings
22.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh 4.12 avg rating — 5,479 ratings
23.
Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating — 32,349 ratings
24.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating — 2,253 ratings
25.
We Are Okay
We Are Okay 3.93 avg rating — 98,922 ratings
26.
Babel-17
Babel-17 3.72 avg rating — 19,542 ratings
27.
The Bone People
The Bone People 4.04 avg rating — 23,584 ratings
28.
Nova
Nova 3.80 avg rating — 8,860 ratings
29.
An Unnecessary Woman
An Unnecessary Woman 3.82 avg rating — 13,759 ratings
30.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by: Nghi Vo
3.92 avg rating — 42,152 ratings
31.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,865 ratings
32.
When the Moon Was Ours
When the Moon Was Ours 3.88 avg rating — 11,103 ratings
33.
Huntress
Huntress 3.79 avg rating — 13,438 ratings
34.
Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,089 ratings
35.
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 4.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Unkindness of Ghosts 3.96 avg rating — 21,203 ratings
37.
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
37.
Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating — 12,077 ratings
39.
Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating — 121,524 ratings
40.
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating — 21,511 ratings
41.
Funny Boy
Funny Boy 4.06 avg rating — 8,693 ratings
41.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea 3.84 avg rating — 49,523 ratings
43.
Red Azalea
Red Azalea 3.84 avg rating — 10,640 ratings
44.
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows 3.86 avg rating — 195 ratings
45.
Salt
Salt 4.23 avg rating — 25,024 ratings
46.
The Hakawati
The Hakawati 3.95 avg rating — 4,505 ratings
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex 4.34 avg rating — 18,726 ratings
48.
In the Dream House
In the Dream House 4.40 avg rating — 153,059 ratings
49.
The Einstein Intersection
The Einstein Intersection 3.55 avg rating — 6,129 ratings
50.
Guapa
Guapa 4.12 avg rating — 4,121 ratings
50.
Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other 4.27 avg rating — 256,316 ratings
52.
The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles
The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles 4.15 avg rating — 193 ratings
53.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
54.
Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring 3.85 avg rating — 7,280 ratings
55.
A Burst of Light
A Burst of Light 4.38 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
56.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,849 ratings
57.
Black Panther: World of Wakanda
Black Panther: World of Wakanda 3.75 avg rating — 3,001 ratings
58.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,718 ratings
59.
My Government Means to Kill Me
My Government Means to Kill Me 4.23 avg rating — 6,255 ratings
60.
He Mele A Hilo
He Mele A Hilo
by: Ryka Aoki
4.31 avg rating — 270 ratings
60.
Worm in a Jar: A Novella
Worm in a Jar: A Novella
by: B. Pigeon
4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
62.
Mirrored in Evergreen
Mirrored in Evergreen
by: B. Pigeon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
63.
Koolaids: The Art of War
Koolaids: The Art of War 4.04 avg rating — 849 ratings
64.
Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
Adaptation (Adaptation, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 7,966 ratings
65.
The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1)
The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1)
by: Neon Yang
3.70 avg rating — 13,442 ratings
66.
She of the Mountains
She of the Mountains 4.06 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
66.
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
68.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,224 ratings
69.
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
70.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Last Night at the Telegraph Club 4.20 avg rating — 110,622 ratings
70.
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You 3.88 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
72.
[insert] boy
[insert] boy 4.54 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
73.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel 4.38 avg rating — 12,206 ratings
74.
Last Words from Montmartre
Last Words from Montmartre 3.85 avg rating — 2,530 ratings
75.
Nature Poem
Nature Poem 4.25 avg rating — 3,280 ratings
76.
Spring Snow
Spring Snow 4.16 avg rating — 22,261 ratings
77.
Just Above My Head
Just Above My Head 4.44 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
78.
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde 4.31 avg rating — 520 ratings
79.
If They Come for Us
If They Come for Us 4.23 avg rating — 8,122 ratings
80.
History Is All You Left Me
History Is All You Left Me 3.91 avg rating — 77,842 ratings
81.
A Map of Home
A Map of Home 3.78 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
81.
I'm Afraid of Men.
I'm Afraid of Men. 4.21 avg rating — 12,149 ratings
83.
Soft Science
Soft Science 3.91 avg rating — 3,939 ratings
84.
Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker
Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker 4.36 avg rating — 133 ratings
85.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 3.81 avg rating — 3,105 ratings
86.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 18,851 ratings
87.
Soul Kiss
Soul Kiss 3.95 avg rating — 323 ratings
88.
Please
Please 4.38 avg rating — 751 ratings
89.
Pet (Pet, #1)
Pet (Pet, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 33,362 ratings
90.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me 3.84 avg rating — 68,146 ratings
91.
Consensual Genocide
Consensual Genocide 4.34 avg rating — 200 ratings
92.
Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas, #2)
Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 3,940 ratings
93.
Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper Cypher, #1)
Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper Cypher, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 10,802 ratings
94.
The Thirty Names of Night
The Thirty Names of Night 4.02 avg rating — 5,057 ratings
95.
All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue 4.19 avg rating — 44,457 ratings
96.
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity 4.58 avg rating — 192 ratings
96.
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 21,100 ratings
98.
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New 4.30 avg rating — 557 ratings
99.
Wanting in Arabic
Wanting in Arabic 4.23 avg rating — 111 ratings
99.
Hurricane Child
Hurricane Child 3.78 avg rating — 4,421 ratings
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