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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,008,077 ratings — published 2017
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.87 — 496,094 ratings — published 2018
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.37 — 141,641 ratings — published 2018
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.29 — 674,592 ratings — published 2012
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 150 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.24 — 108,394 ratings — published 2020
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 200,683 ratings — published 2021
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 148 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.17 — 89,578 ratings — published 2019
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,506 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 109,511 ratings — published 2020
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,153 ratings — published 2020
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.68 — 55,102 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,340 ratings — published 2018
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,565 ratings — published 2019
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,907 ratings — published 2016
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,218 ratings — published 2017
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.79 — 206,830 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 357,791 ratings — published 2016
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,131 ratings — published 2020
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,565 ratings — published 2007
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.66 — 440,086 ratings — published 2020
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.12 — 852,092 ratings — published 2020
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,052,932 ratings — published 2014
I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.14 — 54,675 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.19 — 46,864 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.47 — 401,162 ratings — published 2016
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.24 — 136,942 ratings — published 2017
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.81 — 182,372 ratings — published 2019
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.36 — 953,997 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.16 — 474,673 ratings — published 2018
American Born Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.88 — 101,446 ratings — published 2006
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 223,939 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,393 ratings — published 2015
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,739 ratings — published 2015
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,959 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,343 ratings — published 2013
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,628 ratings — published 2019
The Henna Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,002 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,519 ratings — published 2015
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.75 — 865,380 ratings — published 2017
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.30 — 187,974 ratings — published 2020
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.23 — 36,911 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 750,439 ratings — published 1982
More Happy Than Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,254 ratings — published 2015
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.49 — 802,845 ratings — published 2016
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 169,276 ratings — published 2020
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 269,873 ratings — published 1979
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,480,212 ratings — published 2003
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.99 — 110,149 ratings — published 2020
History Is All You Left Me (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.91 — 79,054 ratings — published 2017
“Re-examine all you have been told,' Whitman tells us, 'and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.' Full disclosure: what insults my soul is the idea—popular in the culture just now, and presented in widely variant degrees of complexity—that we can and should write only about people who are fundamentally 'like' us: racially, sexually, genetically, nationally, politically, personally. That only an intimate authorial autobiographical connection with a character can be the rightful basis of a fiction. I do not believe that. I could not have written a single one of my books if I did. But I feel no sense of triumph in my apostasy. It might well be that we simply don’t want or need novels like mine anymore, or any of the kinds of fictions that, in order to exist, must fundamentally disagree with the new theory of 'likeness.' It may be that the whole category of what we used to call fiction is becoming lost to us. And if enough people turn from the concept of fiction as it was once understood, then fighting this transformation will be like going to war against the neologism 'impactful' or mourning the loss of the modal verb 'shall.' As it is with language, so it goes with culture: what is not used or wanted dies. What is needed blooms and spreads.”
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“Keep your goal in sight. Keep your priorities straight, and it will all be worth it.”
― Furia
― Furia
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