25 must-read fiction books like Dune Song by Anissa M. Bouziane

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Dune Song

By: Anissa M. Bouziane

3.69

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

“I came to the Sahara to be buried.” After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeeha…

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1. China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

By: Kevin Kwan

3.84

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of soc… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Her family are the Medicis of Asia."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"It's a long story, one that could only happen in China."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"Some people had all the luck, being born into the right family."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"Bernard has no money. He only gets about ten million a year to live on," Carol confirmed."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

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2. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

By: Deborah Rodriguez

3.67

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life:… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Miluješ, zemřeš a mezitím se snažíš žít, jak nejlíp dokážeš."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

"The moon is made round by the right hand of God. The moon is made crescent by His left. But it is God’s heart that makes my love for you forever."

-Deborah Rodriguez, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

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3. The Moor's Account

By: Laila Lalami

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with a c… read more

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  • morocco
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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6. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • fiction
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

7. Diamond Head

By: Cecily Wong

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping debut spanning China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping famil… read more

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8. We Are Displaced

By: Malala Yousafzai

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother. Zaynab… read more

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"I think it’s time that people update themselves, educate themselves, and inform themselves."

-Malala Yousafzai, We Are Displaced

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9. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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10. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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11. If I Had Your Face

By: Frances Cha

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

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12. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

By: Cherie Jones

3.69

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Stationery Shop

By: Marjan Kamali

4.22

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"

-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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15. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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16. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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17. At Night All Blood is Black

By: David Diop

3.82

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

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18. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

By: Hwang Bo-Reum

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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19. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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21. The Beauty of Your Face

By: Sahar Mustafah

4.19

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."

-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face

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22. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By: Meg Lowman

4.05

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more

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24. Dominicana

By: Angie Cruz

4.11

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."

-Angie Cruz, Dominicana

"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"

-Angie Cruz, Dominicana

"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"

-Angie Cruz, Dominicana

"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"

-Angie Cruz, Dominicana

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25. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'm not saying this to be trite or to make you feel better, but believe me when I say this: the people who matter will see you, no matter what."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing."

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

"Because sometimes happiness isn't a choice. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't find joy. Which is why I've decided to stop beating myself up by desperately seeking happiness and give my…"

-Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

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26. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

By: Alka Joshi

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in S… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There's more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it."

-Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

"I turn the pages carefully. Our tribal elders may not know how to read, but they revere those who can. "Books contain magic," they say."

-Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

"I never knew there was a place where you could go look at books, much less borrow them, then return them when you are through looking. Imagine! Something that precious!"

-Alka Joshi, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

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27. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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28. The Other Americans

By: Laila Lalami

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more

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  • morocco
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"

-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

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29. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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30. Someday, Maybe

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.90

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss,… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Nobody tells you that irrational hope is a side effect of grief. And they should because it is dangerous."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"when someone you love dies, there's this period of disbelief-a time of dug-in heels, the refusal to process your new reality."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"...there is no easy way to articulate what it means for your loved ones to worry that your person's ability to love you is limited by their inability to comprehend many of your lived experiences."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

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31. Dune Song

By: Anissa M. Bouziane

3.69

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

“I came to the Sahara to be buried.” After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeeha… read more

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  • contemporary
  • morocco
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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