God of Mercy
By: Okezie Nwoka
3.53
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Homegoing meets Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Okezie Nwọka’s debut novel is a powerful reimagining of a …
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1. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
By: Helena Attlee
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more
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2. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- fiction
3. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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4. The Story of an African Farm
By: Olive Schreiner , Dan Jacobson
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A classic story of rural life in 19th Century South Africa, it is a searing indictment of the rigid… read more
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- africa
- fiction
5. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
By: August Wilson
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more
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6. The Red Parts
By: Maggie Nelson
4.31
Format: 66 pages,
One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more
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7. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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8. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- audiobook
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
9. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
10. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By: Janelle Monáe
3.76
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
11. Bluebeard's Castle
By: Anna Biller
3.22
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
12. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- magical realism
- nigeria
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
13. A Half-Built Garden
By: Ruthanna Emrys
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden
14. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
15. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
16. Revelator
By: Daryl Gregory
3.98
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It…"-Daryl Gregory, Revelator
17. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
By: Rita Chang-Eppig
3.49
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. All the Water I've Seen Is Running
By: Elias Rodriques
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel. Along… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Touched
By: Walter Mosley
3.38
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly compl… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and ra…"-Walter Mosley, Touched
20. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"-Andrea Long Chu, Females
21. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more
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- africa
- adult
- audiobook
"Remembering is the death of mercy."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
22. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
23. What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
24. The Two Lives of Sara
By: Catherine Adel West
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where fa… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"There's no such thing as a perfect so make peace with that now. Save yourself a lot of tears later."-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
"Will made me say it. Worse, he made me feel it. What will that do to me, to him, to all of us? How dangerous is my love?"-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
25. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
By: Karen Cheung
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider's account of Hong Kong--from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music s… read more
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- audiobook
"People often characterize depression as a lack of hope or vitality, but I associate it more with a restlessness, an inability to feel at peace. You’re on the couch watching Netflix in furry pajamas, …"-Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
26. Folklorn
By: Angela Mi Young Hur
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding lov… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"To reject is easy; to be abandoned, terrifying."-Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn
27. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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- audiobook
28. Likes
By: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2020) A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch A … read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
29. Things They Lost
By: Okwiri Oduor
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture “Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,” this … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- magical realism
- fiction
- african literature
- fantasy
- audiobook
"She said that true love was just like this - sweet in some parts, sour in others. She said that deep love was vast and pure, but that it also got hateful in some of its corners where the sunlight did…"-Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost
30. God of Mercy
By: Okezie Nwoka
3.53
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Homegoing meets Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Okezie Nwọka’s debut novel is a powerful reimagining of a … read more
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- africa
- magical realism
- nigeria
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- historical fiction
- african literature
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
31. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
