Jesmyn Ward
4.10 · 217 ratings
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Lily King
3.90 · 166 ratings
fiction · literary-fiction · female-mc · family · book · audiobook · contemporary · coming-of-age · female-author · historical-fiction · adult · romance · friendship · realistic · young-adult · grief · love-triangle · lgbtq · drama · domestic-drama
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Yaa Gyasi
4.31 · 127 ratings
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Janet Fitch
3.86 · 97 ratings
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Carol Christensen
3.92 · 71 ratings
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Rūta Razmaitė
4.17 · 57 ratings
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Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.87 · 45 ratings
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Sofía Segovia
4.26 · 44 ratings
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Carol Rifka Brunt
4.03 · 42 ratings
new-york-state · death · siblings · historical · realistic · audiobook · female-author · 21st-century · historical-fiction · coming-of-age · 20th-century · high-school · new-adult · grief · young-adult · mystery · fiction · female-mc · urban · friendship
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토미 오렌지
3.98 · 41 ratings
poc-mc · racism · coming-of-age · literary · politics · grief · substance-abuse · 21st-century · audiobook · contemporary · multi-pov · poc-author · book · literary-fiction · mental-illness · classics · indigenous-mc · realistic · adult · death
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Ronke Adékoluejo
4.46 · 40 ratings
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Ayana Mathis
3.48 · 40 ratings
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Martina Knápková
3.79 · 36 ratings
crime · audiobook · drama · bildungsroman · book · family · gothic · historical-fiction · fiction · lgbtq · literary-fiction · mystery · poverty · rural · young-adult · coming-of-age · dark · killer · folk-horror · realistic
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Afia Atakora
3.91 · 35 ratings
historical · magic · slavery · literary-fiction · book · poc-author · supernatural · civil-war · religion · feminism · paranormal · coming-of-age · racism · myths · audiobook · 21st-century · american-civil-war · social-commentary · family · industrial-era
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Alessandra Esteche
4.20 · 35 ratings
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Fatima Farheen Mirza
4.19 · 33 ratings
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Amanda Coplin
3.79 · 30 ratings
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Susie Yang
3.54 · 26 ratings
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Сьюзи Ян
3.54 · 26 ratings
asian-mc · dark · new-adult · usa · dark-academia · realistic · thriller · female-author · historical-fiction · family · crime · drama · massachusetts · womens-fiction · mystery · fiction · poc-mc · urban · female-mc · coming-of-age
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Heidi W. Durrow
3.58 · 26 ratings
literary-fiction · bildungsroman · book · historical-fiction · poc-author · mental-illness · young-adult · abuse · classics · literary · coming-of-age · racism · grief · substance-abuse · survival · audiobook · middle-grade · suicide · family · drama
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Tara M. Stringfellow
4.15 · 26 ratings
adult · sexual-assault · social-commentary · book · family · literary-fiction · crime · drama · abuse · poc-author · poc-mc · season-summer · fiction · feminism · coming-of-age · racism · audiobook · contemporary · multi-pov · female-author
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Mary Lynn Bracht
4.33 · 24 ratings
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Susan Bernhard
4.04 · 24 ratings
minnesota · season-winter · female-author · historical-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · coming-of-age · dark · indigenous-mc · fiction · suspense · usa · mystery · domestic-drama · young-adult · poc-mc · female-mc · drama · literary-fiction · bildungsroman
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Melissa Fu
4.17 · 24 ratings
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Kai Harris
3.79 · 24 ratings
siblings · womens-fiction · book · literary-fiction · family · poc-author · poc-mc · children-books · young-adult · season-summer · fiction · grief · substance-abuse · coming-of-age · middle-grade · contemporary · black-mc · audiobook · historical-fiction · realistic
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Delores Phillips
4.33 · 24 ratings
audiobook · drama · black-mc · female-author · historical-fiction · north-america · historical · georgia · poc-author · usa · 20th-century · coming-of-age · literary · child-abuse · female-mc · abuse · classics · domestic-drama · poc-mc · racism
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Deepa Anappara
3.80 · 20 ratings
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Amita Trasi
4.20 · 20 ratings
slavery · poc-author · book · kidnapping · literary-fiction · psychological · abuse · young-adult · coming-of-age · audiobook · survival · social-commentary · womens-fiction · crime · family · drama · friendship · female-mc · poc-mc · fiction
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Madhuri Vijay
3.85 · 20 ratings
india · religion · poc-author · literary-fiction · book · psychological · mental-illness · contemporary · audiobook · politics · coming-of-age · grief · fiction · south-asia · spirituality · humor · poc-mc · female-mc · drama · war
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