The Days of Afrekete
By: Asali Solomon
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two …
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1. The Unfortunates
By: B.S. Johnson
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A sports journalist, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by gh… read more
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- fiction
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"I fail to remember, the mind has fuses."-B.S. Johnson, The Unfortunates
"In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies."-B.S. Johnson, The Unfortunates
2. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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3. Love Junkie
By: Robert Plunket
4.50
Format: None pages,
The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more
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4. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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5. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
6. They're Going to Love You
By: Meg Howrey
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You
7. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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- race
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- audiobook
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
8. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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- queer
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
9. Wayward
By: Dana Spiotta
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more
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"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"-Dana Spiotta, Wayward
10. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- contemporary
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11. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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- audiobook
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
12. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- audiobook
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13. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
14. Lot
By: Bryan Washington
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, em… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- african american
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"Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks."-Bryan Washington, Lot
"She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it. Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with …"-Bryan Washington, Lot
15. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
By: Shayla Lawson
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose....… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
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16. Homebodies
By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
3.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more
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- audiobook
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17. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- race
- african american
- audiobook
18. Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You
By: A'ja Wilson
4.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A’ja Wilson comes an inspiratio… read more
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- race
- audiobook
19. Company
By: Shannon Sanders
3.92
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family … read more
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20. Big Girl
By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils―and undeniable be… read more
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21. The Days of Afrekete
By: Asali Solomon
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two … read more
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- african american
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22. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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23. The Rock Eaters: Stories
By: Brenda Peynado
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, … read more
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24. Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
By: Annie Liontas
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom , Esme Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophr… read more
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25. Mother Ocean Father Nation
By: Nishant Batsha
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to l… read more
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26. Can't Let Her Go
By: Kianna Alexander
3.47
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
Friends to lovers? There’s a lot to consider, a lot to hope for, and a lot at risk in a steamy and … read more
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- audiobook
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27. A Little Kissing Between Friends
By: Chencia C. Higgins
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more
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- audiobook
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"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends
28. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, unsparing debut novel about black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intima… read more
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29. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- race
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30. Peggy
By: Rebecca Godfrey
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more
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31. I'll Have What He's Having
By: Adib Khorram
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A smart, tender, vivacious romantic comedy about mistaken identities, the line between love and sex… read more
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