18 must-read audiobook books like Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

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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…

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1. Krik? Krak!

By: Edwidge Danticat

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. … read more

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2. 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

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  • race
  • 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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3. 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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  • 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

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4. 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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  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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6. 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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  • audiobook
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7. Hungry Ghosts

By: Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sorrow felt selfish."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."

-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

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8. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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9. 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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10. What Storm, What Thunder

By: Myriam J. A. Chancy

3.98

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an … read more

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  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. 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
  • race
  • queer
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13. 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

Similar categories in Kei Miller's Things I Have Withheld book and Kei Miller's Things I Have Withheld

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • race
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • anti racist
  • queer
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14. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. Neruda on the Park

By: Cleyvis Natera

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radic… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
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16. These Ghosts Are Family

By: Maisy Card

3.66

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more

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  • audiobook
"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."

-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family

"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."

-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family

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17. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. 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
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19. Dominoes

By: Phoebe Mcintosh

3.76

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
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20. One Year of Ugly

By: Caroline Mackenzie

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fun, fresh, timely debut novel about the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family dur… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. For Such a Time as This

By: Shani Akilah

4.12

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more

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