Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/876421-beverly">Beverly</a> (73 Lists)

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Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2025

135 books — 31 voters

Push by Sapphire

No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

Books Set in Harlem, NYC

168 books — 19 voters

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2024

125 books — 129 voters

Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

The Sleeping Car Porter by Coach House Books

Booker Prize Eligible 2023

166 books — 207 voters

Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein

River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer

The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng

The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2023

193 books — 108 voters

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris

The Ruins of Us by Keija Parssinen

Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah

City of Veils by Zoë Ferraris

Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris

Books Set in Saudi Arabia

79 books — 26 voters

The Colony by Audrey Magee

Chouette by Claire Oshetsky

The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

Booker Prize Eligible 2022

160 books — 218 voters

Yonder by Jabari Asim

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2022

226 books — 130 voters

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hurricane Summer by Asha Ashanti Bromfield

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Hurricanes in Fiction

180 books — 35 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman

Religion in Literary Fiction

296 books — 57 voters

Wrecked by Joe Ide

Books Set in Nevada

264 books — 69 voters

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

The Son by Philipp Meyer

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

Books Set in Texas

939 books — 325 voters

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by Sheila Williams

Dance in the Title

535 books — 35 voters

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller

Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman

African Europeans by Olivette Otélé

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2021

1,012 books — 201 voters

March by John Lewis

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya

The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton

Dead in 2020: The Authors We Lost

383 books — 41 voters

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2021

156 books — 62 voters

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

Memoir Published in Year: 2020

296 books — 84 voters

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2020

198 books — 183 voters

The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

Anticipated 2020 Literary Fiction

583 books — 1,239 voters

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Forthcoming Books for 2021 by African-Americans

86 books — 77 voters

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

Remembrance by Rita Woods

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Forthcoming Books for 2020 by African-Americans

65 books — 317 voters

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2020

60 books — 82 voters

Circe by Madeline Miller

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

There There by Tommy Orange

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The 2019 Tournament of Books Longlist

76 books — 431 voters

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019

175 books — 186 voters

The Man Who Sold America by Joy-Ann Reid

Womanish by Kim McLarin

House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis

Reclaiming Our Space by Feminista Jones

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2019

314 books — 246 voters

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts Jr.

Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Historical Fiction 2019

415 books — 655 voters

We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Forthcoming Books for 2019 by African-Americans

59 books — 65 voters

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Circe by Madeline Miller

Happiness by Aminatta Forna

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

Man Booker Prize Eligible 2018

158 books — 236 voters

Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms

Jefferson's Daughters by Catherine Kerrison

Green by Sam Graham-Felsen

Mouths Don't Speak by Katia D. Ulysse

This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2018

258 books — 283 voters

American War by Omar El Akkad

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2018

174 books — 384 voters

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