The Book of Echoes
By: Rosanna Amaka
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'A searing, rhapsodic novel. The Book of Echoes is filled with beauty, devastation and the power of…
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1. Ghana Must Go
By: Taiye Selasi
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his … read more
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2. Mr Loverman
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Anti… read more
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3. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
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
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
5. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
6. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
7. The Havoc of Choice
By: Wanjiru Koinange
4.31
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
2007, Kenya Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life su… read more
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- contemporary
- africa
- fiction
- historical fiction
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
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- literary fiction
- africa
- nigeria
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- contemporary
9. 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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- africa
- nigeria
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- contemporary
- adult
10. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- nigeria
- contemporary
11. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- africa
- magical realism
- nigeria
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- contemporary
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
12. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- africa
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- contemporary
- adult
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
13. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- race
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
14. When We Were Birds
By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
3.79
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
15. 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
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- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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
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- adult
17. Confessions of Nairobi Men
By: Joan Thatiah
4.34
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Confessions of Nairobi Men is a culmination of three years Joan Thatiah has spent listening to stor… read more
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18. The Book of Echoes
By: Rosanna Amaka
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'A searing, rhapsodic novel. The Book of Echoes is filled with beauty, devastation and the power of… read more
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
19. Kololo Hill
By: Neema Shah
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Uganda 1972 A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety … read more
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20. All Your Children, Scattered
By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
4.15
Format: 192 pages, ebook
WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more
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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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