Patsy
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.92
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfi…
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1. Augustown
By: Kei Miller
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more
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2. I Do Not Come to You by Chance
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more
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3. Casting the First Stone (Reverend Curtis Black, #1)
By: Kimberla Lawson Roby
0.00
Format: 24 pages,
Tanya Black has everything a woman could want: a fulfilling career, a beautiful daughter, an elegan… read more
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4. The Last Warner Woman
By: Kei Miller
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she disc… read more
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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
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- 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. Love After Love
By: Ingrid Persaud
4.07
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
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- queer
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love
7. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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- adult fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
8. A Broken People's Playlist
By: Chimeka Garricks
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist
9. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
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- queer
"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
10. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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- audiobook
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- lgbt
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- contemporary
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- queer
"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
11. 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
12. 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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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
13. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
14. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
16. 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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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
17. Black Candle Women
By: Diane Marie Brown
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women
18. Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
19. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By: Julie Yip-Williams
4.10
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story… read more
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- audiobook
"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
20. The Dearly Beloved
By: Cara Wall
4.07
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more
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""-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
21. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
22. Patsy
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.92
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfi… read more
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- adult fiction
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- queer
23. 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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24. How to Love a Jamaican
By: Alexia Arthurs
3.85
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
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- queer
25. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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26. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
27. 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
- lgbt
- queer
28. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
By: Ingrid Persaud
4.17
Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
29. 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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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
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30. Control
By: Omar Tyree
2.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
31. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
