The Kindest Lie
By: Nancy Johnson
3.56
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A promise could betray you. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in …
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1. And Then There Was Me
By: Sadeqa Johnson
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self acros… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
2. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. Don't Cry for Me
By: Daniel Black
4.35
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise a… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a…"-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
5. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
6. Hold You Down
By: Tracy Brown
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties t… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
7. One Summer in Savannah
By: Terah Shelton Harris
4.14
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating que… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- african american
- audiobook
8. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
9. The Thing About Home
By: Rhonda McKnight
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renew… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
10. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
11. Brooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
12. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
13. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
14. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
15. We Are Not Like Them
By: Christine Pride
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows two women, one Black and one white, whose fr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Kindest Lie
By: Nancy Johnson
3.56
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A promise could betray you. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
17. This Close to Okay
By: Leesa Cross-Smith
3.70
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538715376 From the award-winning Southern writer who Roxane … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent."-Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
"I don't ever want to get over it! I never want to get tired or bored of beauty and goodness."-Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
"A kaleidoscope of contradicting feelings spun in her heart, the colored glass of it shattering and revealing a new emotion with every turn."-Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
"You’re human, and you have to reconcile that with yourself somehow. Forgive yourself. Allow yourself to feel everything deeply, to grow and learn."-Leesa Cross-Smith, This Close to Okay
18. Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)
By: Jayne Allen
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is jugg… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
19. What's Mine and Yours
By: Naima Coster
3.56
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"For all her boldness, Jade was good at citing risks, naming all the things that could sabotage a life. In the weeks after a homicide in the neighborhood, elementary school kids did worse on tests. Te…"-Naima Coster, What's Mine and Yours
20. A Pair of Wings
By: Carole Hopson
4.29
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woma… read more
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- african american
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)
By: Danielle Allen
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
