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…
Want to Read $ 11.99"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 and earth in your body same time, to fly while earthbound?"-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
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1. Utanför revet
By: Veronika Malmgren
3.60
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
En roman om längtan, livsval och att vilja höra hemma någonstans. Tillsammans med sin familj flytta… read more
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2. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
4. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
5. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
6. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
7. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
8. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
9. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
10. 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
- audiobook
"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
11. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
14. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
15. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- adult
- paranormal
- audiobook
"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
16. Med bergens andetag
By: Therese Widenfjord
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Den New York-baserade fotografen Nick Turner återvänder till sin barndoms fattiga bergstrakter i Ap… read more
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- fiction
17. What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You
By: Sharma Taylor
4.16
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they l… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. The Secrets of Catspraddle Village
By: Callie Browning
4.06
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
A grisly murder without a suspect. A bizarre love triangle. A philosopher moonlighting as a garbage… read more
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- fiction
19. Din tid kommer
By: Carl-Johan Vallgren
3.55
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
Falkenberg 1993. En okänd flicka hittas död i ett vattendrag i gränstrakterna mellan Halland och Sm… read more
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- fiction
20. Where There Was Fire
By: John Manuel Arias
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more
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- audiobook
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
21. 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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- audiobook
22. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
By: Soraya Palmer
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
23. 1979 : Johanna och Ingrid - Ett familjedrama
By: Helena von Zweigbergk
3.54
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
”Vet du varför jag fastnade för dig, Ingrid?” Ingrid skakar på huvudet. Är det här verkligen något… read more
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24. Florida Woman
By: Deb Rogers
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell, about one young… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Längst in i skogen
By: Marie Hermanson
3.68
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Det är 1926 och vinterkylan lamslår Göteborg. Inne på Naturhistoriska museet värmer sig barnflickan… read more
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26. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Sälflickan
By: Annika Thor
3.71
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
”Jag hade en syster som hette Lilly, snart finns det inte längre någon kvar som kan minnas henne. D… read more
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28. Slavdrivaren
By: Anders Teglund
3.42
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Vid en gejmingdator i en etta i Södertälje sitter Dennis och styr över cykelbud i en chatt. Han är … read more
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29. Hur fan gör man slut?
By: Emma Arpstrand
3.01
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Eira Eklund är 24 år ung och (o)lovande. På pappret kan hon bocka av många vuxenpoäng: Sambo. Först… read more
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- contemporary
30. Gli spaiati
By: Ester Viola
3.00
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
«Un divorzio è un amore passato che ha trovato il modo legale di non passare mai». Una separazione … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Till träden
By: Ella-Maria Nutti
3.94
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
"Jag ser mig omkring. Brukar känna mig trygg här. Har alltid trott att fjällen är på min sida. Är i… read more
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