Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the …
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1. A Pair of Tickets
By: Amy Tan
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
"A Pair of Tickets" was published in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 9th Edition and An Int… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- short stories
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- classics
- race
- short stories
- fiction
- african american
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
4. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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5. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
6. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
7. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
8. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
9. Un descuido cósmico
By: Liliana Blum
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Desde una mujer mayor que adopta a un alienígena, una esposa traicionada que recurre a la magia vud… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
10. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
11. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- classics
- race
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
12. La mesa herida
By: Laura Martínez-Belli
4.25
Format: 455 pages, ebook
. México, 1935 . Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atravie… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Timecode of a Face
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.01
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? Th… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
"We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something…"-Ruth Ozeki, Timecode of a Face
14. Nosotras
By: Suzette Celaya Aguilar
4.41
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
«La muerte de un pueblo es también el fin del mundo. El fin de los tiempos para todos aquellos que,… read more
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15. Fruto
By: Daniela Rea
4.62
Format: 381 pages, None
Cuidar nos conserva, nos sostiene y nos reúne, pero también nos arrasa y nos agota. En Fruto, las c… read more
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- fiction
16. Madre nuestra, que estás en Maracaibo
By: Ana Hurtado
3.40
Format: None pages, None
Short story published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2020. read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Room for Rent
By: Richie Narvaez
3.96
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A family in dire straits must share their new home with a different species. This story was publ… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
18. La prisionera húngara (Spanish Edition)
By: Susana Wein
3.50
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Una historia de amor, traición y venganza durante el porfiriato La vida de Minerva, una joven húng… read more
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19. El lugar de la herida
By: Laura Baeza
4.46
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
¿Qué pasa cuando someter a otras personas es la única forma de sobrevivir? ¿La desobediencia es pos… read more
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20. El buzón de las impuras
By: Francisca Solar
4.80
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
En 1863, en el momento más crítico de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana, los miembros de la misión dip… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"—Una guerra es la derrota de la política, y en ese caso, prefiero la hipocresía antes que las balas."-Francisca Solar, El buzón de las impuras
21. Woman Hollering Creek
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.02
Format: 9 pages, None
"...already did he divine the morning his daughter would raise her hand over her eyes, look south, … read more
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- fiction
