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Realizing I don’t read enough books written by poc. Would love recommendations if yall have any
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Anonymous 11w

Octavia Butler If you like some classic sci-fi

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Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison are some of my favorite authors. James Baldwin's essays stand the test of time. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great contemporary author, he writes both fiction and essays

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Anonymous 11w

I love RF Kuangs books!!

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Anonymous 11w

the legendborn series by tracy deonn is one of my fav series ever i also love roshani chokshi’s gilded wolves series & her middle grade aru shah books :)

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Anonymous 11w

The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin

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Anonymous 11w

Some of my favorite PoC authors are S. A. Chakraborty, Sabaa Tahir, Hiromu Arakawa, Amal El-Mohtar, John Lewis, Nina Varela, Brandon Taylor, Carmen Maria Machado, Xiran Jay Zhao, Kacen Callendar, Jason Reynolds, Audre Lorde, Malinda Lo, Ijeoma Oluo, Chanel Miller, and Toni Morrison

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Skye Falling

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An ember in the ashes The fifth season This woven kingdom Children of blood and bone Yellowface The poppy war

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Anonymous replying to -> littledove 11w

Can’t believe I forgot Khaled Hosseini, James Baldwin, Saeed Jones, and George M. Johnson

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

I would like to personally upvote the fifth season and recommend jemisin’s the city we became

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