🏷️ Diverse Rep
10 entries tagged with this trope
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris
Adriana Herrera · 2022
Luz Alana arrives in 1889 Paris to launch her rum empire. She needs a husband to access her inheritance. A Scottish duke needs her money. A deal that was never supposed to involve feelings.
Loathe at First Sight
Suzanne Park · 2020
Melody is the only woman on her video game dev team. Her biggest rival? The annoyingly competent new hire Nolan. Working together was not part of the plan.
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang · 2018
Stella hires an escort to teach her about intimacy. Michael is way more than she bargained for. Autistic rep done beautifully, with a hero who's devastatingly patient and kind.
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
A feminist epic fantasy with dragons, queens, and women saving the world without needing a man to do it. Sapphic romance woven into continent-spanning worldbuilding.
Babel
R.F. Kuang · 2022
Oxford, 1836. Translation is magic — literally. Robin Swift is brought from Canton to serve the British Empire's silver-working. But how long can he serve a system that devours his own people?
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020
Four Native American men are haunted by something they did during a hunting trip years ago. It's coming for them. Literary horror that cuts deep — about guilt, tradition, and reckoning.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones · 2021
Jade is a slasher-movie obsessive who's convinced her small town is about to become one. She might be right. A love letter to horror that's also heartbreaking.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2014
A motley crew on a tunneling ship heads to a distant planet. The journey matters more than the destination. The found family vibes are unmatched. Cozy sci-fi at its best.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a forbidden pregnancy in 1910s Korea to the pachinko parlors of 1980s Osaka. Epic, devastating, and impossibly human.
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid · 2019
A white woman's Black babysitter gets racially profiled in a grocery store. What follows is a sharp, uncomfortable examination of performative allyship and good intentions gone wrong.