Monster in the Middle
By: Tiphanie Yanique
3.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“ Reveals on every page how love can persevere and take shape over time and space.”— Boston Globe …
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1. The Untelling
By: Tayari Jones
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and baby sister when she was nine. … read more
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2. River Mumma
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more
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3. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- adult fiction
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4. Perish
By: LaToya Watkins
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more
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"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."-LaToya Watkins, Perish
"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"-LaToya Watkins, Perish
5. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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6. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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7. How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir … read more
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"Some songs take women places men cannot follow."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
8. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
9. The Monsters We Defy
By: Leslye Penelope
4.12
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more
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10. Love Poems for Married People
By: John Kenney
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner Jo… read more
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- romance
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11. Heads of the Colored People
By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, an… read more
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- african american
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"As a funeral singer, she had more gigs than she wanted and paid for the fertility treatments on her own with the profits, though it seemed wrong to call them that."-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"Marjorie was only thirty-seven, but she felt older than her peers; some of them would say she felt better than them, too. But that wasn't true. If anything, she felt inferior for all the many ways sh…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She did not want to be one of those people who went to therapy for the rest of their lives, blathering on about what "my therapist said" or "what we uncovered in therapy." It struck Marjorie that tho…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
"She knew that she should feel discontentment, connected to a large chain of disenfranchisement or systemic persecution--it's not that black death and the news of the world didn't touch her spirit--bu…"-Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
12. Win Me Something
By: Kyle Lucia Wu
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more
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13. Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
By: Margaret Renkl
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art o… read more
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14. Monster in the Middle
By: Tiphanie Yanique
3.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“ Reveals on every page how love can persevere and take shape over time and space.”— Boston Globe … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- new york
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- african american
- audiobook
15. The Golden State
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother … read more
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"It’s not very comforting,"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"...motherhood is not a house you live in but a warren of beautiful rooms, something like Topkapi … some well-trod but magnificent place you’re only allowed to sit in for a minute and snap a photo bef…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"The drive is supposed to take six and a half hours but somehow we have been on the road for eight when we come to the wooden sign sunk into grass that signifies the entrance to Deakins Park, and alth…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
16. Nuclear Family
By: Joseph Han
3.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family livi… read more
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17. Heartbroke
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and… read more
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18. The Perishing
By: Natashia Deón
2.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel featuring a Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles who must recover the memory… read more
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- fiction
"We’re all on the edge of somebody else’s violence."-Natashia Deón, The Perishing
"Sometimes, it is life altering. Hurts me to watch the anguish of others who don’t understand it’s not always over. Not for everybody."-Natashia Deón, The Perishing
"Parents who leave their children don't often double back. That's for the children to spend their life doing. Looking and waiting for word, often that their parents have died."-Natashia Deón, The Perishing
"And anyway, you don't have to be suicidal to be suicidal. There is also I wouldn't take my own life but I don't mind not being here. It's called passive suicidality and there's nothing wrong with you…"-Natashia Deón, The Perishing
19. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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20. The Rich People Have Gone Away
By: Regina Porter
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more
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21. The Garden of Broken Things
By: Francesca Momplaisir
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of generations of women—mothers and daughters of Haiti—and the devastating earth… read more
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