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Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as woc)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,090 ratings — published 2013
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as woc)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,473 ratings — published 2017
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,381 ratings — published 1982
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as woc)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,343,465 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as woc)
avg rating 4.47 — 422,530 ratings — published 2016
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as woc)
avg rating 4.12 — 878,154 ratings — published 2020
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as woc)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,735 ratings — published 2014
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 674,784 ratings — published 2017
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.77 — 586,726 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 3.63 — 371,693 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as woc)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,132 ratings — published 2012
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.93 — 396,836 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,674 ratings — published 1937
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as woc)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,537 ratings — published 1969
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,474 ratings — published 2017
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,232,445 ratings — published 2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 27 times as woc)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,179 ratings — published 2017
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as woc)
avg rating 4.28 — 349,906 ratings — published 2015
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,280 ratings — published 2000
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as woc)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,649 ratings — published 1970
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,360 ratings — published 2018
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as woc)
avg rating 4.19 — 289,168 ratings — published 1993
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,136,486 ratings — published 2023
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 637,090 ratings — published 2021
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as woc)
avg rating 3.95 — 832,073 ratings — published 2014
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as woc)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,591 ratings — published 2020
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,140 ratings — published 2020
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.56 — 166,328 ratings — published 2018
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,187 ratings — published 2017
The Mothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,733 ratings — published 2016
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as woc)
avg rating 3.83 — 623,584 ratings — published 2014
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,088 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,622 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,897 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Unknown Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,989 ratings — published 2014
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 3.67 — 247,256 ratings — published 1984
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.27 — 238,667 ratings — published 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as woc)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,335 ratings — published 1984
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.78 — 211,966 ratings — published 2019
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.86 — 510,304 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 3.66 — 401,197 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,217 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,289 ratings — published 2006
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as woc)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,237 ratings — published 1981
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,539 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as woc)
avg rating 3.65 — 438,334 ratings — published 2007
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from the
gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps
petals of water from her skin. At once,
clouds begin to sob for such beauty.
Clothing drops like leaves.
"No one makes poetry,my Mme.
Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”
I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with
our souls.”
Desire illuminates the dark manuscript
of our skin with beetles and butterflies.
After the lightning and rain has ceased,
after the lightning and rain of lovemaking
has ceased, Selah will dive again into the
sunflower-open river.”
― Whylah Falls
gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps
petals of water from her skin. At once,
clouds begin to sob for such beauty.
Clothing drops like leaves.
"No one makes poetry,my Mme.
Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”
I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with
our souls.”
Desire illuminates the dark manuscript
of our skin with beetles and butterflies.
After the lightning and rain has ceased,
after the lightning and rain of lovemaking
has ceased, Selah will dive again into the
sunflower-open river.”
― Whylah Falls
“Women trailed around vendors, baskets on their arms, bartering for a low price, despite the fact their purses carried plenty of coin. I envied their warm coats and the ruffles on their long dresses. They were never cold, never dressed in threadbare clothes, and never went hungry. They also never worried about what would happen to them if they had an episode and passed out in a gutter. It was no use dwelling on what I didn’t have.”
― A Sleet Storm's Seduction
― A Sleet Storm's Seduction
