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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,615 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 172 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.36 — 144,621 ratings — published 2018
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.87 — 508,336 ratings — published 2018
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.23 — 111,128 ratings — published 2020
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.28 — 687,341 ratings — published 2012
With the Fire on High (ebook)
by (shelved 148 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.16 — 90,394 ratings — published 2019
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 147 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.30 — 209,294 ratings — published 2021
Felix Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,411 ratings — published 2020
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,307 ratings — published 2020
You Should See Me in a Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,437 ratings — published 2020
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.68 — 55,292 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.10 — 255,470 ratings — published 2018
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,426 ratings — published 2019
If I Was Your Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,204 ratings — published 2016
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,670 ratings — published 2017
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.78 — 211,345 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Is Also a Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 362,702 ratings — published 2016
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.05 — 287,636 ratings — published 2007
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,888 ratings — published 2020
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,853 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 — 1,086,735 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,165 ratings — published 2020
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,837 ratings — published 2020
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,630 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,389 ratings — published 2016
I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,687 ratings — published 2019
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
by (shelved 86 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.80 — 185,290 ratings — published 2019
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,059,219 ratings — published 2020
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.15 — 527,235 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,022 ratings — published 2015
American Born Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.88 — 102,785 ratings — published 2006
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,081 ratings — published 2015
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,579 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.77 — 585,259 ratings — published 2019
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,062 ratings — published 2019
The Henna Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,509 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,546 ratings — published 2013
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.75 — 894,197 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,267 ratings — published 2015
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,842 ratings — published 1982
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.29 — 199,664 ratings — published 2020
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.22 — 37,677 ratings — published 2018
More Happy Than Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.95 — 69,039 ratings — published 2015
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.49 — 831,783 ratings — published 2016
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.79 — 172,289 ratings — published 2020
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.31 — 286,418 ratings — published 1979
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.27 — 80,615 ratings — published 2019
History Is All You Left Me (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as own-voices)
avg rating 3.91 — 80,231 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as own-voices)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,566,726 ratings — published 2003
“And the truth of your experience can onlycome through in your own voice. If it is wrapped in someone else's voice, we readers will feel suspicious, as if you are dressed up in someone else's clothes. You cannot write out of someone else's big dark place; you can only write out of your own.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Umi didn’t know
that I had cut school
to visit the art museum downtown
I had cut school
to sit in the park
on a bench with my sketch pad
drawing trees and leaves and sky and birds
just to get my skills up
just to understand the rules
of line and texture
and shading
and
black and white
Just so I can break those rules
And I didn’t need Ms. Rinaldi
to tell me that I wasn’t advanced
or I didn’t have history”
― Punching the Air
that I had cut school
to visit the art museum downtown
I had cut school
to sit in the park
on a bench with my sketch pad
drawing trees and leaves and sky and birds
just to get my skills up
just to understand the rules
of line and texture
and shading
and
black and white
Just so I can break those rules
And I didn’t need Ms. Rinaldi
to tell me that I wasn’t advanced
or I didn’t have history”
― Punching the Air
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