Books reviewed by Valerie Morales at BookBrowse.

Valerie Morales

Valerie Morales' non-fiction work has been featured in Huffington Post, The Talented Tenth Review Medium and The Committed Generation. She loves books that inhale the future and exhale the past. James Baldwin’s novel Another Country was her beginning of all things literary, life and truth.

Books reviewed by Valerie Morales

Alias Grace (07/16/25)

When the Harvest Comes (06/04/25)

Old School Indian (05/07/25)

Counting Backwards (04/09/25)

A Calamity of Noble Houses (02/26/25)

Soldiers and Kings (01/15/25)

The Barn (10/16/24)

Sky Full of Elephants (09/18/24)

Someone Like Us (07/31/24)

The Great Abolitionist (06/19/24)

I Just Keep Talking (05/15/24)

Bitter Crop (04/03/24)

Prima Facie (02/07/24)

Poverty, by America (12/06/23)

One Puzzling Afternoon (11/15/23)

The Unsettled (10/18/23)

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun (09/06/23)

A Fever in the Heartland (06/07/23)

We Are a Haunting (05/03/23)

Daughter in Exile (03/15/23)

Call and Response (02/15/23)

Someday, Maybe (01/04/23)

Half American (11/02/22)

If I Survive You (09/21/22)

Sleeping Alone (08/03/22)

Corrections in Ink (06/22/22)

Tell Me Everything (04/06/22)

Yonder (01/19/22)

Three Girls from Bronzeville (11/03/21)

Assembly (10/20/21)

All That She Carried (08/04/21)

The Unfit Heiress (06/09/21)

The Kindest Lie (03/17/21)

Dog Flowers (01/20/21)

Somewhere in the Unknown World (11/18/20)

The Buddhist on Death Row (09/02/20)

A Woman of No Importance (07/10/19)

Normal People (04/17/19)

Let It Bang (10/31/18)

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen (10/03/18)

Dopesick (08/29/18)

The Inward Empire (06/20/18)

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