Queer Female Authors of Color

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Ash
Ash 3.63 avg rating — 37,570 ratings
2.
Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath 4.16 avg rating — 16,965 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,849 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,249 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,112 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,082 ratings
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Everything Leads to You
Everything Leads to You 3.84 avg rating — 35,078 ratings
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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine 3.71 avg rating — 10,296 ratings
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The Tiger’s Daughter (Ascendant, #1)
The Tiger’s Daughter (Ascendant, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 4,101 ratings
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After the Sandstorm (Salam Series #3)
After the Sandstorm (Salam Series #3) 4.78 avg rating — 231 ratings
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When the Moon Was Ours
When the Moon Was Ours 3.88 avg rating — 11,103 ratings
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Planet Adyn (Theonite, #1)
Planet Adyn (Theonite, #1)
by: M.L. Wang
3.71 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Black Water Sister
Black Water Sister
by: Zen Cho
3.84 avg rating — 10,842 ratings
15.
The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1)
Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1)
by: C.B. Lee
3.87 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
The Gangster We Are All Looking For 3.68 avg rating — 3,058 ratings
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Stealing Nasreen
Stealing Nasreen 3.67 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Selected Works
Selected Works 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella
Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella 3.79 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression
Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 25,597 ratings
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This One Summer
This One Summer 3.69 avg rating — 90,768 ratings
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She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses
by: Joy Harjo
4.28 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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Bliss
Bliss 4.16 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Under an Emerald Sky
Under an Emerald Sky 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,721 ratings
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The Fabulous Feminist
The Fabulous Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1)
Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall 3.56 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Huntress
Huntress 3.79 avg rating — 13,437 ratings
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Parakeets & Pentagrams (Tabitha Tapscott Mysteries Book 1)
Parakeets & Pentagrams (Tabitha Tapscott Mysteries Book 1) 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House 4.56 avg rating — 8,000 ratings
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Meridian
Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist 4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Ruthless Pamela Jean
Ruthless Pamela Jean 4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,087 ratings
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Otros valles
Otros valles 4.53 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1)
Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
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The Heart Does Not Bend
The Heart Does Not Bend 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Bruja
Bruja 3.97 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Celebrating Hotchclaw
Celebrating Hotchclaw really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
43.
Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995
Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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For Nights Like This One: Stories of Loving Women
For Nights Like This One: Stories of Loving Women 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,549 ratings
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Feminists of Color
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Feminists of Color 4.39 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
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Black Lesbian in White America
Black Lesbian in White America 4.23 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)
The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 16,997 ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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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 — 9,682 ratings
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Trumpet
Trumpet 4.06 avg rating — 7,265 ratings
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Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (Sexual Cultures, 40)
Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (Sexual Cultures, 40) 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties 3.51 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Troublemaker and Other Saints
Troublemaker and Other Saints 3.54 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Bodies in Motion
Bodies in Motion 3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Days of Awe
Days of Awe 3.63 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Necessary Hunger
The Necessary Hunger 3.85 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Haruko: Love Poems
Haruko: Love Poems 3.90 avg rating — 784 ratings
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The Dirty Girls Social Club (Dirty Girls, #1)
The Dirty Girls Social Club (Dirty Girls, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 13,130 ratings
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Passing for Black
Passing for Black 3.22 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Stars Change
The Stars Change 3.65 avg rating — 350 ratings
62.
Havana Noir (Akashic Noir)
Havana Noir (Akashic Noir) 3.42 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Black White and Jewish
Black White and Jewish 3.78 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring 3.85 avg rating — 7,276 ratings
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The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads 3.84 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory 3.77 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Finder of Lost Objects
Finder of Lost Objects 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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What Night Brings
What Night Brings 4.18 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Give It to Me
Give It to Me 3.24 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Last Words from Montmartre
Last Words from Montmartre 3.85 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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Black Girl in Paris
Black Girl in Paris 3.83 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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The Lavender House Murder
The Lavender House Murder 3.25 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Loving Her
Loving Her 3.58 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Coffee Will Make You Black
Coffee Will Make You Black 4.08 avg rating — 5,553 ratings
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In Another Place, Not Here
In Another Place, Not Here 3.79 avg rating — 466 ratings
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The Summer We Got Free
The Summer We Got Free 4.35 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows 3.86 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Rosa
Rosa 4.36 avg rating — 6,844 ratings
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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner)
Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner) 3.92 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Outrageous
Outrageous really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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I Can't Think Straight
I Can't Think Straight 4.14 avg rating — 5,705 ratings
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The Paths of Marriage
The Paths of Marriage 3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Not Vanishing
Not Vanishing
by: Chrystos
4.50 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Doubters and Dreamers (Volume 67) (Sun Tracks)
Doubters and Dreamers (Volume 67) (Sun Tracks) 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Daughters of Copper Woman
Daughters of Copper Woman 4.30 avg rating — 885 ratings