Literature by People of Color

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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,773 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,386 members
519 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
13,262 members
282 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,904 members
317 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
6,920 members
134 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,555 members
343 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
10,374 members
442 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,579 members
369 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
3,268 members
125 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,525 members
447 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
4,084 members
68 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,043 members
1,375 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
13,518 members
153 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Moor's Account
by Laila Lalami
1,121 members
55 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Icarus Girl
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,029 members
30 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
21,657 members
405 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,333 members
461 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,560 members
133 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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All Our Names
by Dinaw Mengestu
516 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
1,415 members
13 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
1,463 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
16,373 members
192 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
22,297 members
385 reviews
4
2 Members
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Mr Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,187 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau
720 members
13 reviews
3.9
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The Foxes of Harrow
by Frank Yerby
333 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
3,581 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,999 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
19,711 members
405 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,819 members
414 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
12,904 members
255 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,572 members
282 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
1,364 members
78 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,187 members
494 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
8,299 members
283 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,564 members
137 reviews
4
2 Members
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Another Country
by James Baldwin
3,486 members
52 reviews
4.2
Member
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An Untamed State
by Roxane Gay
1,077 members
52 reviews
3.9
Member
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Open City
by Teju Cole
1,909 members
96 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
3,453 members
155 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
5,697 members
264 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
3,694 members
184 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
1,312 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,528 members
48 reviews
4.1
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Transmission
by Hari Kunzru
821 members
26 reviews
½ 3.4
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by Shyam Selvadurai
220 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
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Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
877 members
15 reviews
3.9
Member
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Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones [short story]
by Samuel R. Delany
24 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
1,767 members
107 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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Tropic of Violence
by Nathacha Appanah
101 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
by D. T. Niane
823 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum)
by Lucille Clifton
231 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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Half Blood Blues
by Esi Edugyan
1,592 members
88 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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The Blue Sky
by Galsan Tschinag
246 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,551 members
270 reviews
4.1
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Long Division {original}
by Kiese Laymon
376 members
17 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
2,355 members
139 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
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Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
9,586 members
203 reviews
½ 3.7
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We the Animals
by Justin Torres
1,477 members
74 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
by Heidi W. Durrow
2,090 members
118 reviews
3.8
Member
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61
Wife of the Gods
by Kwei Quartey
600 members
83 reviews
3.8
Member
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62
We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
1,556 members
91 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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63
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2,487 members
138 reviews
3.9
Member
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64
Season of the Shadow
by Léonora Miano
96 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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Lone Sun
by Daniel Maximin
27 members
½ 3.5
Member
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NW
by Zadie Smith
2,785 members
99 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
18,982 members
394 reviews
3.9
Member
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The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tan Twan Eng
1,847 members
116 reviews
4.1
Member
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
by Aliette de Bodard
221 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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70
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
4,191 members
80 reviews
3.8
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The Bridge of Beyond
by Simone Schwarz-Bart
390 members
11 reviews
4.2
Member
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Out
by Natsuo Kirino
3,839 members
142 reviews
3.9
Member
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73
Foreign Gods, Inc.
by Okey Ndibe
218 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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74
Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan
2,469 members
76 reviews
½ 3.6
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75
Ghana Must Go
by Taiye Selasi
913 members
34 reviews
3.8
Member
MMFalcone
76
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by Mohammed Hanif
1,284 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
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MMFalcone
77
Loving Day
by Mat Johnson
324 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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78
Counternarratives
by John Keene
286 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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79
The Book of Unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez
1,636 members
80 reviews
3.9
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,398 members
231 reviews
4
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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
4,378 members
82 reviews
3.9
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