Creatures of Passage
By: Morowa Yejide
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage
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1. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- audiobook
2. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
3. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
4. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Remote Sympathy
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.31
Format: 526 pages, Hardcover
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had fear… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
7. In Defence of the Act
By: Effie Black
4.12
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act
8. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
9. Build Your House Around My Body
By: Violet Kupersmith
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
10. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
11. Flamingo
By: Rachel Elliott
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A novel of love, homelessness, and learning to be fearless In the garden, there were three flami… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. The Exhibitionist
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
14. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
15. The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
16. 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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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
17. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
18. Careless
By: Kirsty Capes
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Salt Lick
By: Lulu Allison
3.66
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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- literary fiction
- audiobook
21. Creatures of Passage
By: Morowa Yejide
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington,… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- horror
- paranormal
- audiobook
"The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two"-Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage
