17 best-selling literary fiction books like Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

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Pleasantview

By: Celeste Mohammed

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos…

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1. Kintu

By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4.11

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"For knowing and refusing to know."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu

2. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more

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3. A Spell of Good Things

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more

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  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

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4. Love After Love

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."

-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

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5. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Rootless

By: Krystle Zara Appiah

3.83

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. A Broken People's Playlist

By: Chimeka Garricks

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"

-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

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8. The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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10. The Island of Forgetting

By: Jasmine Sealy

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

11. Pleasantview

By: Celeste Mohammed

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview book and Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • cultural
  • the world
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. What Storm, What Thunder

By: Myriam J. A. Chancy

3.98

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Bread the Devil Knead

By: Lisa Allen-Agostini

4.03

Format: 277 pages, ebook

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"

-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

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14. When We Were Birds

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

3.79

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."

-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"

-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

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15. How to Love a Jamaican

By: Alexia Arthurs

3.85

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

16. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

17. Things I Have Withheld

By: Kei Miller

4.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller exp… read more

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18. Hurricane Summer

By: Asha Ashanti Bromfield

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves… read more

Similar categories in Asha Ashanti Bromfield's Hurricane Summer book and Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes little girls must become their own heroes."

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"Mom says you get two birthdays. The first one is the day you are born. The second one is the day you leave home and give birth to yourself."

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"When they ask me how I weathered the storm, I will tell them I did not. I was ravished like the zinc houses and devoured like the soil as it swallowed itself whole. I was ruined. I was disaster. I wa…"

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"We watch as the rain pummels the land, tearing apart houses and sheds and wiping out what has been so perfectly crafted. Objects crash into one another, and there is an evolution to their madness as …"

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

Cover of The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud

19. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.17

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Dominoes

By: Phoebe Mcintosh

3.76

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

21. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction

19 Top fiction books like Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

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Kintu

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4.11

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A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

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Love After Love

Ingrid Persaud

4.07

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Tomorrow I Become a Woman

Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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