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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 — 142,980 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 — 70,214 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 — 34,294 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 — 27,009 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 — 9,351 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 — 5,116 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 — 3,533 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 — 1,770 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 — 1,207 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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Turtles All the Way Down

by John Green

11 votes, 16.9%

The Rules of Magic

by Alice Hoffman

11 votes, 16.9%

Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

8 votes, 12.3%

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

7 votes, 10.8%

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

6 votes, 9.2%

He Said/She Said

by Erin Kelly

5 votes, 7.7%

The Child Finder

by Rene Denfeld

4 votes, 6.2%

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

by Jamie Ford

3 votes, 4.6%

Since We Fell

by Dennis Lehane

3 votes, 4.6%

Salt Houses

by Hala Alyan

2 votes, 3.1%

Sing, Unburied, Sing

by Jesmyn Ward

2 votes, 3.1%

So Much Blue

by Percival Everett

1 vote, 1.5%

The Bear and the Nightingale

by Katherine Arden

1 vote, 1.5%

Here and Gone

by Haylen Beck

1 vote, 1.5%

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