SRC 2024: Read a book by a BIPOC author (Adults)Like this list

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• The House of Hidden Meanings

  RuPaul, 1960-

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  From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

  Jimenez, Claire,

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  What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unsettled

  Mathis, Ayana,

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  Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.

• Twice Lived

  West, Joma, 1986-

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  There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you're a shifter. Canna and Lily are the same person but they refuse to admit it. Their split…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Talk

  Bell, Darrin,

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  Through evocative original illustrations, The Talk is a meditation on this coming-of-age-as Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and strangers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Survivalists

  Cauley, Kashana,

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  In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life--success--until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay True

  a Memoir

  Hsu, Hua, 1977-

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  A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.

• Sito

  An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him

  Ralph, Laurence,

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  Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family and as an Ivy League professor and expert on the entanglement of class and violence, SITO is an intimate story with a message about the lived experience of urban danger, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• River Mumma

  Reid-Benta, Zalika,

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  When the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quietly Hostile

  Essays

  Irby, Samantha,

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  Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Migrant Souls

  a Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

  Tobar, Héctor, 1963-

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  Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of "Latino" as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and seeks to give voice to the angst and anger of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune

  Lim, Roselle,

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  At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happiness Falls

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  We didn't call the police right away. When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand-but doing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loot

  James, Tania,

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  Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Life

  Yanagihara, Hanya,

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  When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let Us Descend

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Land of Milk and Honey

  Zhang, C Pam,

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  About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Eve

  Johnson, Sadeqa,

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  Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us.

• Harlem Shuffle

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Harlem Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation