Decent People
By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u…
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1. All the Sinners Bleed
By: S.A. Cosby
4.24
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- african american
- audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed
"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed
2. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
3. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
4. Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
5. My Darkest Prayer
By: S.A. Cosby
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
6. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)
By: Danielle Arceneaux
3.81
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- african american
- audiobook
7. Time's Undoing
By: Cheryl A. Head
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murd… read more
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- mystery thriller
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
8. 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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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
9. 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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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
10. Our Best Intentions
By: Vibhuti Jain
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more
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- mystery thriller
- race
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
11. I Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
3.61
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
12. The Apartment
By: Ana Menéndez
3.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bristling with compassion, desire, and a longing to connect, The Apartment is a portrait of the com… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
13. 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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- audiobook
- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
14. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)
By: Iris Yamashita
3.54
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
15. Small Mercies
By: Dennis Lehane
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more
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- mystery thriller
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
16. Life and Other Love Songs
By: Anissa Gray
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A father’s sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black Am… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- african american
- audiobook
17. Stealing
By: Margaret Verble
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more
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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
18. The Survivalists
By: Kashana Cauley
2.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her co… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Night Wherever We Go
By: Tracey Rose Peyton
3.85
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
20. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
21. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
22. Decent People
By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more
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- race
- lgbt
- historical
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- historical fiction
- mystery
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- african american
- audiobook
23. Sisters with a Side of Greens
By: Michelle Stimpson
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"A charming novel about sisterhood, regrets, and second chances, [with] a peek into Southern comfo… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"This ain't no time for you to be a deadbeat sister. Again." I gasped. "Deadbeat? Again?" Kerresha dragged her suitcase up the steps, now. "Absent. Estranged. Not present. Whatever you want to call it…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"Cooking with Momma's spices helped Marvina process. Never mind she didn't have enough people in the house to eat everything she laid out for preparation. Several pies, pork chops, chicken, greens, ma…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"We stood still, the tenderness between us almost tangible. The scent of the spices, human empathy, and plain old muscle memory combined to re-create the gooey magnetism of being near Marvina again. F…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"I sprinkled a dose of Momma's seasoning into my cupped hand and dipped my tongue into the tiny pool of memories I knew one taste would evoke. Salty, savory, smoky, full of earthy flavors that somehow…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
24. 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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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
25. 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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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
26. What You Leave Behind
By: Wanda M. Morris
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- african american
- audiobook
27. A Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn… read more
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- historical
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
28. A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
By: June Thomas
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
29. Gone Like Yesterday
By: Janelle M. Williams
3.59
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what… read more
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- race
- african american
- fiction
- audiobook
30. 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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- african american
- fiction
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