17 best-selling contemporary books like The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud

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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.17

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th…

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1. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more

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2. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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5. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. 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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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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9. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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10. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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13. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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14. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more

Similar categories in Yvette Lisa Ndlovu's Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) book and Ingrid Persaud's The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

  • fiction
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16. Pleasantview

By: Celeste Mohammed

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. A Trace of Sun

By: Pam Williams

3.73

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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21. The Road to the Country

By: Chigozie Obioma

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"

-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country

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22. Sweetness in the Skin

By: Ishi Robinson

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmai… read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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24. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.17

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Dominoes

By: Phoebe Mcintosh

3.76

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

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  • fiction
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28. For Such a Time as This

By: Shani Akilah

4.12

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. 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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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Passiontide

By: Monique Roffey

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deat… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

29 Top fiction books like The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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20 best-selling fiction books like The Echoes by Evie Wyld

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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