18 Top fiction books like The Drowned Forest by Angela Barry

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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…

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1. Augustown

By: Kei Miller

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more

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2. House of Ashes

By: Monique Roffey

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The City of Silk is seething. The corrupt government has been ruling over the people too long and t… read more

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3. 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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4. 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

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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)

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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

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17. 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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18. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

By: Daniel José Older

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more

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"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

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19. Let Me Liberate You

By: Andie Davis

3.41

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of … read more

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20. Tea by the Sea

By: Donna Hemans

4.23

Format: 232 pages, Unknown Binding

"A seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth, an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose fac… read more

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21. Antoine des Gommiers

By: Lyonel Trouillot

4.27

Format: 208 pages, ebook

De ces deux frères, Franky et Ti Tony, l'un est attaché aux mots et aux figures de style quand l'au… read more

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19 Best fiction books like Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross

Transform Your Habits

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared Hosein

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Island of Forgetting

Jasmine Sealy

4.05

Transform Your Habits

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee

3.91

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