Suggestions: Diverse Characters by AOC

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Suggestions: Diverse Characters by AOC

By Alessandra Torre & Ran Walker

Books #1-7 on this list was built off Ran Walker's suggestions of authors who do a great job of creating diverse characters. To round out the other genres, I have added additional novels.

1 The Devil in Silver

Victor LaValle

2 The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

3 Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

4 My Soul to Keep

Tananarive Due

5 The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

6 The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa

7 The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin

8 Every Last Breath

Juno Rushdan

9 Queen Move

Kennedy Ryan

10 Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

11 The Proposal

Jasmine Guillory

12 On the Corner of Hope and Main

Beverly Jenkins

13 London Royal

Nana Malone

14 The Worst Best Man

Mia Sosa

15 Fables & Other Lies: A Gothic Romance Novel

Claire Contreras

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