The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
By: Marcia Douglas
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower…
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1. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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2. Tar Baby
By: Toni Morrison
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more
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3. Here Comes the Sun
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.94
Format: 256 pages,
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more
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4. A Brief History of Seven Killings
By: Marlon James
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more
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5. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more
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6. Hungry Ghosts
By: Kevin Jared Hosein
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more
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"Sorrow felt selfish."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
7. Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
3.58
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more
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"Death stalked the city like the plague."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Each of us has a measure of criminality."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"None of us should think only of ourselves."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
8. 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
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9. What Storm, What Thunder
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an … read more
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10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
By: Marlon James
4.18
Format: 626 pages, ebook
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, … read more
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"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
13. On a Woman's Madness
By: Astrid H. Roemer
3.43
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in… read more
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14. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
By: Soraya Palmer
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more
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15. Now Lila Knows
By: Elizabeth Nunez
3.51
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
There is nothing like racial injustice in America to teach an outsider the differences between perc… read more
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16. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
By: Marcia Douglas
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower… read more
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- contemporary
- 21st century
- historical fiction
- novels
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17. The Drowned Forest
By: Angela Barry
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the discovery of a fossilized tree stump deep off the coast of Bermuda, Angela Barry finds a pot… read more
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18. Village Weavers
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two fami… read more
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19. Black Rain Falling
By: Jacob Ross
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Delving into issues of family, class and loyalty, Black Rain Falling is a stunning crime novel that… read more
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20. Gebroken wit
By: Astrid H. Roemer
3.58
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Oma Bee, Louise, Heli, Imker, Babs, Audi. Familienaam Vanta. In Gebroken Wit zijn ze aan elkaar ver… read more
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"In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does."-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit
"Amazing how sunlight makes a landscape shine in shades of ocean blue, blood red, grass green, and everything in between. A tree with orange blossoms high in its canopy of leaves; blossoms that sway i…"-Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit
21. Book of the Little Axe
By: Lauren Francis-Sharma
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect … read more
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