5 Best historical fiction books like The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah

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The Deep Blue Between

By: Ayesha Harruna Attah

3.46

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina's home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end b…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Daughters Who Walk This Path by Yejide Kilanko

1. Daughters Who Walk This Path

By: Yejide Kilanko

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-d… read more

Similar categories in Yejide Kilanko's Daughters Who Walk This Path book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
  • african literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo, None, Tuzyaline Jita Allan

2. Changes: A Love Story

By: Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and fa… read more

Similar categories in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
  • african literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Tomorrow Died Yesterday

By: Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

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Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
  • fiction
  • african literature
Cover of Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen

4. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

Similar categories in Aiwanose Odafen's Tomorrow I Become a Woman book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
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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

Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's A Broken People's Playlist book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
"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. 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

Similar categories in Breanne Mc Ivor's The God of Good Looks book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Mechanics of Yenagoa

By: Michael Afenfia

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of … read more

Similar categories in Michael Afenfia's The Mechanics of Yenagoa book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • contemporary
  • africa
  • fiction
  • african literature
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8. The Middle Daughter

By: Chika Unigwe

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more

Similar categories in Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
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9. 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

Similar categories in Jasmine Sealy's The Island of Forgetting book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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10. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

Similar categories in Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

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11. The Woman Next Door

By: Yewande Omotoso

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful wo… read more

Similar categories in Yewande Omotoso's The Woman Next Door book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
"Night was the real measure of love, Hortensia thought. Anything can sparkle in the daylight. But night – that was when humanity got tested. It was always at night that she saw things between them wer…"

-Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

"Marion had avoided history. Or she'd invented her own. After all, what was history but a record of what gets noticed? Noticed, it seemed to Marion, was what life was really about. Noticing and not no…"

-Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

"She’s going to die.’ ‘We all do eventually, Marion.’ ‘I’m worried she’ll die and come to haunt me, you know?’ ‘Ah, I see. Trust you to find a way to be the star of someone else’s death-scene. She’s t…"

-Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

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12. 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

Similar categories in Aiwanose Odafen's We Were Girls Once book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • african literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah

13. One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

By: Marie-Claire Amuah

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

*Winner of the Diverse Book Award 2023* 'I loved this book so much! Intense and beautiful and heart… read more

Similar categories in Marie-Claire Amuah's One for Sorrow, Two for Joy book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
  • african literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of For you I’d steal a goat by Niq Mhlongo

14. For you I’d steal a goat

By: Niq Mhlongo

3.70

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This short story collection is filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots and twist endings… read more

Similar categories in Niq Mhlongo's For you I’d steal a goat book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • african literature
  • fiction
"Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them."

-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

"One day this apartheid will be a thing of the past. Our people will be free.’ ‘Maybe. But the past claws its way out. You can’t bury it just like that. It’s not like human flesh. And yet we need to m…"

-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

"Politicians like us must also be entertained in order to lead the people [...]‘It is the duty of the taxpayers to always foot our bill. Whether they like it or not, complain or not, it is their duty …"

-Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

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15. Daughter in Exile

By: Bisi Adjapon

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of  The Teller of Secrets  returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, sto… read more

Similar categories in Bisi Adjapon's Daughter in Exile book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
Cover of The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah

16. The Deep Blue Between

By: Ayesha Harruna Attah

3.46

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina's home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end b… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • brazil
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • african literature
Cover of Red Island House by Andrea Lee

17. Red Island House

By: Andrea Lee

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream ho… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lee's Red Island House book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
Cover of If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais

18. If You Want to Make God Laugh

By: Bianca Marais

4.31

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Marais's If You Want to Make God Laugh book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"The universe speaks in clues and signs, gentle nudges and hints, rather than pontifications and proverbs, commandments and condemnations. I have trusted its signs all my life, which is why I listened…"

-Bianca Marais, If You Want to Make God Laugh

Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

19. 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

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems by Ama Asantewa Diaka

20. Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems

By: Ama Asantewa Diaka

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it mea… read more

Similar categories in Ama Asantewa Diaka's Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
Cover of Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

21. 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

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Ayesha Harruna Attah's The Deep Blue Between

  • africa
  • family
  • fiction
  • african literature

20 Best fiction books like The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah

Transform Your Habits

Daughters Who Walk This Path

Yejide Kilanko

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Changes: A Love Story

Ama Ata Aidoo , None , Tuzyaline Jita Allan

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow I Become a Woman

Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

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17 best-selling fiction books like The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe

Transform Your Habits

Daughters Who Walk This Path

Yejide Kilanko

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

4.25

Transform Your Habits

A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

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