The Half-God of Rainfall
By: Inua Ellams
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall …
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1. Nectar
By: Upile Chisala
4.01
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Nectar is the second collection of poetry and prose by Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala. In this … read more
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- poetry
- africa
- audiobook
"I hope you never stop talking about your dreams and what you want out of this rough, beautiful life."-Upile Chisala, Nectar
"You do yourself and those who could love you a disservice when you make yourself smaller; when you eat your words or use less of your light."-Upile Chisala, Nectar
2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
3. Rendición
By: Ray Loriga
4.40
Format: 82 pages,
?Quienes somos cuando nos cambian las circunstancias? La guerra dura una decada y nadie sabe a cien… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. The Lesser Bohemians
By: Eimear McBride
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
The captivating new novel from Eimear McBride, critically acclaimed and Baileys Women's Prize-winni… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
5. Bone
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the… read more
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- poetry
6. A Burst of Light
By: Audre Lorde
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Black freedom fighter's strength and signifying words. Essays. 1989 Before Columbus Foundation Amer… read more
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7. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more
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- africa
- nigeria
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
8. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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- contemporary
9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
10. The Crying Book
By: Heather Christle
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- contemporary
"Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a "woman's weapon." It has been a long war."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"Almost all my understanding is from books...Sometimes it seems there are more pages in me than breaths."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"Some people think of reading poems and stories as a way to practice responding to imagined circumstances, without having to risk dangers of real life."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"They say perhaps we cry when language fails, when words can no longer adequately convey our hurt. When my crying is not wordless enough I beat my head with my fists."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
11. Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
By: Cleo Wade
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Cleo Wade’s second anthology of heartfelt poetry and prose builds on the wisdom… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"I speak out because I know the pain of staying silent."-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
"If all of your dreams came true, would they just change you or would they change the world? Dream bigger loved ones, bigger and wider and deeper and further."-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
"No one nominated Harriet Tubman to her purpose, to her courage, to her mission. She did not say 'I am not a congressperson or the president, so how could I possibly participate in the fight to abolis…"-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
12. Occupy Space
By: Grady Hendrix
3.82
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- audiobook
"And as for the people around here, well, I’m very sorry that my rocket might crash through their roofs and put a premature halt to their careers as professional television watches, but given the stat…"-Grady Hendrix, Occupy Space
13. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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- audiobook
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
14. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
15. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
16. I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
By: Kim Bo-young
3.73
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities In this mind-expanding work of speculative fic… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"People said this was the end of the world. I disagreed. It was simply the end of the human race. People said the gods had abandoned the world. I disagreed. Divine attention had simply shifted from us…"-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
"Now people refused to believe that they and the world were one and the same. That they and the Other were one and the same. They thought themselves alone, and drunk in their solitude, they questioned…"-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
17. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
19. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems
By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- contemporary
20. And Then He Sang a Lullaby
By: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and res… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- nigeria
- contemporary
21. The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t… read more
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- africa
- fantasy
- fiction
22. God Themselves
By: Jae Nichelle
4.09
Format: None pages, None
Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern churc… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
23. Ikenga
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.79
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Nnamdi's father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determine… read more
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- africa
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
24. The Half-God of Rainfall
By: Inua Ellams
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall … read more
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- poetry
- africa
- nigeria
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- plays
- fantasy
- mythology
- audiobook
25. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)
By: Su Cho
3.83
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
26. Call Me Esteban
By: Lejla Kalamujić
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daugh… read more
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- fiction
27. Call Me Legachi
By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
4.16
Format: None pages, None
Convinced distance is the reason her long-term relationship is failing, Legachi sets off to London … read more
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28. Black and Female: Essays
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.In Black and Female, Tsitsi D… read more
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- africa
- audiobook
29. Vulnerable AF
By: Tarriona Ball
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook! The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- contemporary
30. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Classical Poetry of Japan
By: Various
3.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast w… read more
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