A Million Aunties
By: Alecia McKenzie
3.43
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his m…
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1. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
2. The Salt Roads
By: Nalo Hopkinson
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and… read more
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3. We Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more
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4. Augustown
By: Kei Miller
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustownis a magical and haunting novel set in the underbell… read more
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5. Krik? Krak!
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. … read more
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6. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
7. 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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- adult
- family
- 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
8. 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
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
10. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
11. 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
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- short stories
- fiction
12. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
13. A Walk in the Park
By: Rebekah Weatherspoon
3.99
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hours and 24 minutes Two hearts on the mend and one adorable mutt get a new … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. Lucky Girl
By: Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
15. The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
3.98
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a melliflu… read more
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- short stories
"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under t…"-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
16. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- 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
17. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
18. When We Were Birds
By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
3.79
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
19. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
20. How to Love a Jamaican
By: Alexia Arthurs
3.85
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. 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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- audiobook
22. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
By: Kate Mosse
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unhear… read more
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- audiobook
23. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"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
24. 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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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
25. An Impossible Return
By: Caroline Laurent
4.19
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse An epic love story set against a backdrop of injustice, d… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
26. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
27. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
28. 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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- fiction
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29. A Million Aunties
By: Alecia McKenzie
3.43
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his m… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- travel
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- adult
- audiobook
30. The Day I Fell Off My Island
By: Yvonne Bailey-Smith
4.11
Format: 393 pages, ebook
The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted fro… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
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