7 best-selling race books like Black Love Letters by Cole Brown

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Black Love Letters

By: Cole Brown

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confuse…

"I can't help that you're my muse, that every river in me runs back to you. - Jamila Woods"

-Cole Brown, Black Love Letters

If you liked the race plot in Black Love Letters by Cole Brown , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

4.24

Format: 128 pages,

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more

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2. The Mayor of Maxwell Street

By: Avery Cunningham

3.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head … read more

Similar categories in Avery Cunningham's The Mayor of Maxwell Street book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
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3. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • poetry
  • race
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4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

Similar categories in Michael Harriot's Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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5. Remember Us

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply in… read more

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6. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2) book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
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7. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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8. The Art of Scandal

By: Regina Black

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Love would be so much easier if it were perfect..." On the night of her husband Matt’s fortiet… read more

Similar categories in Regina Black's The Art of Scandal book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
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9. Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more

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10. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

Cover of Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

11. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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12. Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection)

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.22

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgm… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection) book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • short stories
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13. The Beginning of Forever

By: A.E. Valdez

4.27

Format: 198 pages, None

Harlow and Acyn are on their way to happily ever after… Or so they thought. When their weddin… read more

Similar categories in A.E. Valdez's The Beginning of Forever book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
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14. Black Love Letters

By: Cole Brown

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confuse… read more

Similar categories in Cole Brown's Black Love Letters book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
  • poetry
  • race
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"I can't help that you're my muse, that every river in me runs back to you. - Jamila Woods"

-Cole Brown, Black Love Letters

Cover of Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett

15. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

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16. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • race
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17. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • race
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18. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

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19. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

Similar categories in Terah Shelton Harris's Long After We Are Gone book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • race
Cover of Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) by Danielle Allen

20. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)

By: Danielle Allen

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Allen's Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
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21. Vulnerable AF

By: Tarriona Ball

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook! The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated… read more

Similar categories in Tarriona Ball's Vulnerable AF book and Cole Brown's Black Love Letters

  • romance
  • poetry
  • nonfiction

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4.04

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4.54

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Antonia Hylton

4.27

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