19 best-selling fiction books like One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie

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One Year of Ugly

By: Caroline Mackenzie

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fun, fresh, timely debut novel about the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family dur…

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1. Born on a Tuesday

By: Elnathan John

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tue… read more

Similar categories in Elnathan John's Born on a Tuesday book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. Love After Love

By: Ingrid Persaud

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."

-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

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3. 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

Similar categories in Breanne Mc Ivor's The God of Good Looks book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Jasmine Sealy's The Island of Forgetting book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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

Similar categories in Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • cultural
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Allen-Agostini's The Bread the Devil Knead book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • 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

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7. Here to Stay (Dating in Dallas #1)

By: Adriana Herrera

3.86

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting over is more about who you’re with than where you live… Julia del Mar Ortiz is not havi… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The people doing all the programming and making the decisions don't look like the kids and adults they're planning for, and no matter how good their intentions, we need to have a seat at the table to…"

-Adriana Herrera, Here to Stay (Dating in Dallas #1)

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8. Sweethand (Island Bites, #1)

By: N.G. Peltier

3.51

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

After a public meltdown over her breakup from her cheating musician boyfriend, Cherisse swore off g… read more

Similar categories in N.G. Peltier's Sweethand (Island Bites, #1) book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Alexia Arthurs's How to Love a Jamaican book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. We Were Girls Once

By: Aiwanose Odafen

3.82

Format: None pages, Audiobook

'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Things I Have Withheld

By: Kei Miller

4.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller exp… read more

Similar categories in Kei Miller's Things I Have Withheld book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • audiobook
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12. The Plus One

By: Sophia Money-Coutts

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Plus One [n] informal a person who accompanies an invited person to a wedding or a reminder of … read more

Similar categories in Sophia Money-Coutts's The Plus One book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Oh dear, Pols. Jasper this, Jasper that. You've got Mentionitis."

-Sophia Money-Coutts, The Plus One

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13. 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

Similar categories in Ishi Robinson's Sweetness in the Skin book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • cultural
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Maisy Card's These Ghosts Are Family book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • 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

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15. 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

Similar categories in Ingrid Persaud's The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. One Year of Ugly

By: Caroline Mackenzie

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fun, fresh, timely debut novel about the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family dur… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • cultural
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Law of Lines

By: Hye-Young Pyun

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the Prize-Winning Author of The Hole, a Slow-Burning Thriller about Unseen Forces that Shape U… read more

Similar categories in Hye-Young Pyun's The Law of Lines book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People don’t end up poor because they’re stupid. They end up poor because the system is fucked."

-Hye-Young Pyun, The Law of Lines

"When does evil intent become evil itself? Is it evil simply to imagine and harbor an idea? Does it begin when a thought is put into action? And if that action fails, then did evil never exist to begi…"

-Hye-Young Pyun, The Law of Lines

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18. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • fiction
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19. 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

Similar categories in Shani Akilah's For Such a Time as This book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

By: Sable Yong

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay coll… read more

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  • adult
Cover of The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution by Daniel José Older

21. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

By: Daniel José Older

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution book and Caroline Mackenzie's One Year of Ugly

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."

-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution

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Ingrid Persaud

4.07

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The God of Good Looks

Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

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The Island of Forgetting

Jasmine Sealy

4.05

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Pleasantview

Celeste Mohammed

4.28

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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