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Jesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University.

Her work has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space and The Oxford American.

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	Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 142,878 ratings — published 2017 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 70,141 ratings — published 2011 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Us Descend 3.69 avg rating — 34,143 ratings — published 2023 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 26,956 ratings — published 2013 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race 4.35 avg rating — 9,344 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Line Bleeds 3.79 avg rating — 5,109 ratings — published 2006 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author), Gina Triplett (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 3,530 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Swamp (A Point in Time, #7) 3.77 avg rating — 1,765 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®) by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 1,206 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cattle Haul (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 1) by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author), Brigid Hughes (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

11 votes, 19.3%

Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

8 votes, 14.0%

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann

7 votes, 12.3%

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

6 votes, 10.5%

Exit West

by Mohsin Hamid

5 votes, 8.8%

The Heart's Invisible Furies

by John Boyne

4 votes, 7.0%

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

4 votes, 7.0%

In the Midst of Winter

by Isabel Allende

4 votes, 7.0%

Beautiful Lies

by Jessica Warman

3 votes, 5.3%

I'll Give You the Sun

by Jandy Nelson

3 votes, 5.3%

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance

1 vote, 1.8%

The Blackbird Season

by Kate Moretti

1 vote, 1.8%

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