When Trying to Return Home: Stories
By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Ric…
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1. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
3. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
4. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
5. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Middle Daughter
By: Chika Unigwe
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
10. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
11. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
12. 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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- audiobook
- contemporary
13. The Faraway World: Stories
By: Patricia Engel
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. Holler, Child: Stories
By: LaToya Watkins
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
15. Against the Currant (Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries, #1)
By: Olivia Matthews
3.51
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In Olivia Matthews's Against the Currant , the first Spice Isle Bakery Mystery, investigating a mur… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Coconut Drop Dead (Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries, 3)
By: Olivia Matthews
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The case in Olivia Matthews's Coconut Drop Dead is going to be a tough nut to crack. Brooklyn’s an… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
18. Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2)
By: Margot Douaihy
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, an… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
20. Blue Hour
By: Tiffany Clarke Harrison
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
22. Skin & Bones
By: Renée Watson
4.39
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
23. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
24. Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
25. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
By: Stephen Buoro
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the story of Andrew Aziza, a one-of-a-kind te… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
26. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
28. When Trying to Return Home: Stories
By: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Ric… read more
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- united states
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
29. The Unfortunates
By: J.K. Chukwu
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhau… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
30. An Autobiography of Skin
By: Lakiesha Carr
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue. "Powerful in its love for the genera… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- audiobook
31. NerdCrush
By: Alisha Emrich
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Happily Ever Afters meets You've Got Mail in this geeky, Black Girl Magic filled debut romance abo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
