Black Bottom Saints
By: Alice Randall
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecc…
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1. Snow in August
By: Pete Hamill
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the… read more
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2. The Turner House
By: Angela Flournoy
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
There ain't no haints in Detroit. So spoke Francis Turner--patriarch and provider, former preacher … read more
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3. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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4. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
By: Lisa See
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has… read more
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5. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
6. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- audiobook
8. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
9. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
By: Abbi Waxman
3.59
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antis… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
10. The Arrest
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.15
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest
11. Mr. Texas
By: Lawrence Wright
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
13. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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- race
- adult
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
15. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- historical
- race
- african american
- audiobook
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
16. To Be a Man: Stories
By: Nicole Krauss
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"One day I saw it: how she looked back at the man that j the business suit who stood across a subway car from her, burning a hole through her with his eyes. Her stare was a challenge."-Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man: Stories
17. In the Upper Country
By: Kai Thomas
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
18. The Last Debutantes
By: Georgie Blalock
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Next Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a wo… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
By: Tiya Miles
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and terri… read more
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- historical
- race
- african american
- audiobook
20. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
By: Eliese Colette Goldbach
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she un… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
21. Skin & Bones
By: Renée Watson
4.39
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- african american
- audiobook
22. Black Bottom Saints
By: Alice Randall
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecc… read more
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- music
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
23. Find Me in Havana
By: Serena Burdick
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES, a new historical novel based on the dazzlin… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When I returned home, my father sat me down and said that family is not a choice. They are our bones and our blood, our past and our future. 'It's not always good,' he told me, 'but it's always impor…"-Serena Burdick, Find Me in Havana
24. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
By: Wayétu Moore
4.24
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more
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- race
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
25. Cuyahoga
By: Pete Beatty
3.56
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel “Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Honest work is medicine. You can it bottle or buy better remedy, whatever your ailment."-Pete Beatty, Cuyahoga
26. 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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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
27. The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
By: Shauna Robinson
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartf… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- african american
- audiobook
28. The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
By: Alex Tresniowski
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
29. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
30. They Dream in Gold
By: Mai Sennaar
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A “luminous” (Tara Conklin) literary debut following two dreamers, one intercultural family, and th… read more
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- music
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
