20 must-read audiobook books like How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

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How You Grow Wings

By: Rimma Onoseta

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally riveting novel for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sánchez about two sisters in Niger…

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1. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Blum's The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • africa
  • nigeria
  • fiction
  • family
  • 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

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3. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • family
  • audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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4. Love Radio

By: Ebony LaDelle

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a pop… read more

Similar categories in Ebony LaDelle's Love Radio book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's crazy how a relationship can be over long before you both call it quits."

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

"That's what love looks like. It's not always about the flowers and grand gestures, but this right here. Being completely yourself with another person in the moment, and them accepting no less of you."

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

"And now I'm realising it's ok to let toxicity go, even if it used to be good at one point. What matters is how does it make you feel now, and right now nothing about Destiny makes me believe she care…"

-Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio

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5. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Chaos Theory book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's Nightbloom book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • africa
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

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8. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. This Place Is Still Beautiful

By: XiXi Tian

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever.De… read more

Similar categories in XiXi Tian's This Place Is Still Beautiful book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Maybe one day we will find the right words, but at the moment, he just stands with me in this alley, shielded from the sun. Dark, but not alone."

-XiXi Tian, This Place Is Still Beautiful

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12. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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13. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

Cover of Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk

14. Nothing Burns as Bright as You

By: Ashley Woodfolk

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Five starred reviews! From New York Times  bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk,  Nothing Burns as Br… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Woodfolk's Nothing Burns as Bright as You book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You flew through books, reading more in a week than some people did in a year."

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"I get it, she says. And I go from feeling invisible to feeling like I fill the whole room, the whole building, the whole sky."

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"Parents think they control us with their authority. But really the only reason we listen is because we're desperate for them to love us. And we're terrified that if we do too many bad things, they'll…"

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

"A Lie: You’re not my girlfriend The truth: we both know exactly who we are to each other If you want to get technical.. if you counted up the hours i spent thinking of you and the days we spent in yo…"

-Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

Cover of How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

15. How You Grow Wings

By: Rimma Onoseta

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally riveting novel for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sánchez about two sisters in Niger… read more

Similar categories in Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • cultural
  • africa
  • young adult contemporary
  • nigeria
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Belittled Women by Amanda Sellet

16. Belittled Women

By: Amanda Sellet

3.16

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Sharp and subversive, this delightfully messy YA rom-com offers a sly wink to the classic Little Wo… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Sellet's Belittled Women book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Kings of B'more

By: R. Eric Thomas

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Two Black, queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore i… read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Kings of B'more book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. My Flawless Life

By: Yvonne Woon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A narrator grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. … read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Woon's My Flawless Life book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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19. Meet Me in Mumbai

By: Sabina Khan

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A novel in two acts—told eighteen years apart—gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mir… read more

Similar categories in Sabina Khan's Meet Me in Mumbai book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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20. 16 & Pregnant

By: LaLa Thomas

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bond between two best friends is put to the test when one of them gets pregnant in this contemp… read more

Similar categories in LaLa Thomas's 16 & Pregnant book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Twice as Perfect

By: Louisa Onomé

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Young Adult novel by Louisa Onomé, Twice As Perfect follows a Nigerian Canadian girl dealing with… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Onomé's Twice as Perfect book and Rimma Onoseta's How You Grow Wings

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook

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The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Isaac Blum

4.01

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3.65

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Danielle Paige

5.00

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Marissa Meyer

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3.69

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