28 Best fiction books like Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps

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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…

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1. The Trophy Wife

By: Ashley Antoinette , JaQuavis Coleman

4.41

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Ashley & Jaquavis introduce the reader to London, a beautiful immigrant from Trinidad. She was give… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Antoinette's The Trophy Wife book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Nigeria Jones

By: Ibi Zoboi

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Nigeria Jones book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • african american
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2)

By: Namina Forna

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered … read more

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"She herself threw other girls on the metaphorical and even physical pyre. I should be used to it now, the way women sometimes betray other women, the way they align themselves with men, if only to gu…"

-Namina Forna, The Merciless Ones (Deathless, #2)

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4. Goal (St. Louis Sires #1)

By: Alexandria House

4.12

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

For Maleek Jones, hockey is his wife. Everything and everyone else is his mistress, an aside. When … read more

Similar categories in Alexandria House's Goal (St. Louis Sires #1) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • audiobook
Cover of The Davenports (The Davenports, #1) by Krystal Marquis

5. The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)

By: Krystal Marquis

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1910, the Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changin… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Marquis's The Davenports (The Davenports, #1) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • african american
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Olivia remembered the moment she'd realized that every Black person she knew was touched by the horror of slavery. Sometimes Olivia felt it like a wound hidden deep under smooth skin—one that she did…"

-Krystal Marquis, The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)

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6. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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7. Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more

Similar categories in Tracy Brown's Brooklyn book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart, #2) by Kalynn  Bayron

8. This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart, #2)

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

How much would you risk to save the ones you love? Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate? … read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart, #2) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. Their Vicious Games

By: Joelle Wellington

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's Their Vicious Games book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Black Queen

By: Jumata Emill

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. M… read more

Similar categories in Jumata Emill's The Black Queen book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker

11. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."

-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)

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12. Her Good Side

By: Rebekah Weatherspoon

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Weatherspoon's Her Good Side book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blood Gift (The Blood Gift Duology, #2) by N.E. Davenport

13. The Blood Gift (The Blood Gift Duology, #2)

By: N.E. Davenport

3.66

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning conclusion to N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed sci-fantasy duology, eli… read more

Similar categories in N.E. Davenport's The Blood Gift (The Blood Gift Duology, #2) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Salt the Water

By: Candice Iloh

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging auth… read more

Similar categories in Candice Iloh's Salt the Water book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Ones Are Taken by Taj McCoy

17. The Good Ones Are Taken

By: Taj McCoy

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth gi… read more

Similar categories in Taj McCoy's The Good Ones Are Taken book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

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

18. 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 Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • africa
  • race
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • science fiction
  • african american
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

19. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's We Are All So Good at Smiling book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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20. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe by Jeezy

21. Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

By: Jeezy

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous… read more

Similar categories in Jeezy's Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • audiobook
Cover of That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) by Brittany N. Williams

22. That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

By: Brittany N. Williams

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black gir… read more

Similar categories in Brittany N. Williams's That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep," [Joan] said. Keep him playing the scene until she worked out a plan. "Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep / And kill me too." Auberon smiled. "All…"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

"His hand slipped around the back of her neck and pulled her in close. their eyes met. He stopped; his brows knitted. He was waiting for her permission because he couldn't be sure if Hermia's refusal …"

-Brittany N. Williams, That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

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23. The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3)

By: Namina Forna

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl … read more

Similar categories in Namina Forna's The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Soul of the Deep (Skin of the Sea, #2) by Natasha Bowen

24. Soul of the Deep (Skin of the Sea, #2)

By: Natasha Bowen

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Skin of the Sea, in which the world … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Bowen's Soul of the Deep (Skin of the Sea, #2) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

25. 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 Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris

26. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

Similar categories in Terah Shelton Harris's Long After We Are Gone book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • race
  • african american
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams

27. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

Similar categories in LaDarrion Williams's Blood at the Root book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • african american
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

28. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

Similar categories in Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • africa
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

Cover of Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women by Shanita Hubbard

29. 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 Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • race
  • audiobook
Cover of Sleep Like Death by Kalynn  Bayron

30. Sleep Like Death

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Kalynn Bayron returns to fairytales with a l… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's Sleep Like Death book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of True True by Don P. Hooper

31. True True

By: Don P. Hooper

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit … read more

Similar categories in Don P. Hooper's True True book and Omar Epps's Nubia: The Awakening

  • race
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook

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Namina Forna

3.90

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Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Kalynn Bayron

3.99

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Terry J. Benton-Walker

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Kamilah Cole

3.90

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Namina Forna

3.90

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Jordan Ifueko

4.33

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