Books I Love by BIPOC
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
White Tears / Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
In 2020 and beyond, I am committed to reading more books by people of color and raising more awareness for these books in the Bookstagram community. Below is a TBR list of books I put together with the help of my Instagram followers for your (and my) reference:
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Becoming by Michelle Obama
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
There There by Tommy Orange
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Beloved by Toni Morrison
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Library of Legends by Janine Chang
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Luster by Raven Leilani
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi