18 Best fiction books like Someone Birthed Them Broken by Ama Asantewa Diaka

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Someone Birthed Them Broken

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by a…

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1. The Joys of Motherhood

By: Buchi Emecheta

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children -… read more

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  • fiction

2. Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

4.24

Format: 128 pages,

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more

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3. In Time of Need

By: Shakirah Bourne

3.44

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of award-winning Barbadian stories that showcase the controversial and often hidden as… read more

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4. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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5. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
"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

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6. Confrontaties

By: Simone Atangana Bekono

3.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.Sa… read more

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  • fiction
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7. 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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  • fiction
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8. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

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  • fiction
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9. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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10. What We Kept to Ourselves

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

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13. 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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  • fiction
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14. Someone Birthed Them Broken

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by a… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • ghana
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15. The Road to the Country

By: Chigozie Obioma

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more

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  • fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"

-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country

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16. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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17. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. 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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  • fiction
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19. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories

By: Ao Omae

3.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Grown Women

By: Sarai Johnson

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and d… read more

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  • fiction
"I don’t think you’re ever really grown."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

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21. The Year of Return

By: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori

4.62

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

In December 2019, as Ghana's vibrant streets buzz with the climax of the "Year of Return," an initi… read more

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Chimeka Garricks

4.33

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Eric LaRocca

3.67

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