Harry Sylvester Bird
By: Chinelo Okparanta
3.24
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant,…
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1. Ghana Must Go
By: Taiye Selasi
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his … read more
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2. The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions, #2)
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
A sequel to Nervous Conditions, this is a powerful and engaging story about one young woman's quest… read more
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3. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
4. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
5. Black Sunday
By: Tola Rotimi Abraham
3.65
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously unique and universal (NPR), this fiercely original debut novel follows the fate of f… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Gone but not Forgotten."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Children can have stubborn pain too."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Lagos is filled with broke men with big dreams."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Just give me five years, I'll ruin his entire life."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
6. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
7. The Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
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
- africa
- nigeria
- 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. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right
By: Ukamaka Olisakwe
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
10. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
11. The Consequences: Stories
By: Manuel Muñoz
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Shimmering stories set in California’s Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso s… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
12. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
13. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
14. Lowest White Boy (In Place)
By: Greg Bottoms
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Joh… read more
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- race
15. 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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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
16. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
17. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
18. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. Everything
By: Andrea Cohen
3.74
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
The poems in Everything, Andrea Cohen’s seventh collection, traffic in wonder and woe, in dialogue … read more
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20. Harry Sylvester Bird
By: Chinelo Okparanta
3.24
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
21. What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
By: Marcia Bjornerud
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us hav… read more
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- audiobook
"Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"This impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by - indeed, made of - time."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"I emphasize that my job is not to challenge their personal beliefs but to teach the logic of geology (geo-logic?) - the methods and tools of the discipline that enables us not only to comprehend how …"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"Over human timescales, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us. Soil lost to erosion, coastal areas claimed by the sea, and mountaintops sacrificed on the altar of capitalism won't be rest…"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
23. The Town of Babylon
By: Alejandro Varela
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
24. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
25. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
26. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
By: Ladee Hubbard
3.68
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of s… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
27. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
28. 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
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
29. New York, My Village
By: Uwem Akpan
3.38
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire―by the celebrated a… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
30. The Unfortunates
By: J.K. Chukwu
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhau… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
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
- africa
- fiction
- nigeria
