The Healing (Celebrating Black Women Writers)
By: Gayl Jones
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observati…
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1. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
By: Mary Gaitskill
4.31
Format: None pages,
Justine, a beautiful, lonely, sexually addicted young woman, meets Dorothy, fat, maladjusted, and u… read more
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2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven cre… read more
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3. Random Acts of Senseless Violence
By: Jack Womack
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Woma… read more
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4. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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5. The Street
By: Ann Petry
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more
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6. The Rainbow
By: D.H. Lawrence , Daphne Merkin
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lush with religi… read more
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7. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
By: Ayana Mathis
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Mig… read more
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8. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
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"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
9. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
10. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
11. The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
4.47
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more
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12. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
13. 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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"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
14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
15. Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
3.61
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more
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"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice
16. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
17. The Healing (Celebrating Black Women Writers)
By: Gayl Jones
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observati… read more
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18. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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19. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
By: Michael K. Williams
4.49
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more
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20. Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
By: Marlon James
4.18
Format: 626 pages, ebook
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, … read more
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"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
21. So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)
By: Oakley Hall
3.79
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Am… read more
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