20 Top audiobook books like Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell

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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

Similar categories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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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

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Perish book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
"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

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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

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

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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

Similar categories in Vanessa Walters's The Nigerwife book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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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

Similar categories in Namwali Serpell's The Furrows book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • music
  • relationships
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Myah Ariel's When I Think of You book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps

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

Similar categories in Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's Big Girl book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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

Similar categories in Jamila Minnicks's Moonrise Over New Jessup book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Nyani Nkrumah's Wade in the Water book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Soraya Palmer's The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

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

Similar categories in Jennifer Maritza McCauley's When Trying to Return Home: Stories book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women by Shanita Hubbard

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

Similar categories in Shanita Hubbard's Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Rosanna Amaka's Rose and the Burma Sky book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Lakiesha Carr's An Autobiography of Skin book and Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook

20 Top fiction books like Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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Tia Williams

4.04

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Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

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Coleman Hill

Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

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Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

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Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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