Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
By: Laura Warrell
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ m…
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1. 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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"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
2. 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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"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
3. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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4. Coleman Hill
By: Kim Coleman Foote
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more
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5. Perish
By: LaToya Watkins
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more
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"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."-LaToya Watkins, Perish
"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"-LaToya Watkins, Perish
6. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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7. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
8. The Nigerwife
By: Vanessa Walters
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more
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"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife
9. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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10. Holler, Child: Stories
By: LaToya Watkins
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more
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11. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
By: Laura Warrell
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ m… read more
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12. When I Think of You
By: Myah Ariel
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two fo… read more
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13. Nubia: The Awakening
By: Omar Epps
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From beloved actor and producer Omar Epps and writer Clarence A. Haynes comes the biggest epic fant… read more
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14. Big Girl
By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable be… read more
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15. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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16. Wade in the Water
By: Nyani Nkrumah
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this ri… read more
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17. 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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18. When Trying to Return Home: Stories
By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Ric… read more
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19. Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
By: Shanita Hubbard
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hi… read more
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20. Rose and the Burma Sky
By: Rosanna Amaka
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For fans of Yaa Gyasi, Esi Edugyan and James Baldwin - gripping and intimate historical novel of a … read more
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21. An Autobiography of Skin
By: Lakiesha Carr
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue. "Powerful in its love for the genera… read more
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