A Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn…
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1. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
By: Tananarive Due
4.04
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings… read more
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- fiction
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"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a my…"-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
2. The Dog of the North
By: Elizabeth Mckenzie
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North
3. Commitment
By: Mona Simpson
3.62
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"He respected architecture less than he once had. Some buildings were true art. A few more worked like machines for living. But when he looked at most new buildings, what he saw was ego. So many peopl…"-Mona Simpson, Commitment
4. Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- audiobook
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
5. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- adult fiction
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- fiction
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- audiobook
6. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- audiobook
7. My Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- historical
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- audiobook
8. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
9. Perish
By: LaToya Watkins
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."-LaToya Watkins, Perish
"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"-LaToya Watkins, Perish
10. Our Best Intentions
By: Vibhuti Jain
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more
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11. The Faraway World: Stories
By: Patricia Engel
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
By: Richard Mirabella
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age nov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
13. Stealing
By: Margaret Verble
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Night Wherever We Go
By: Tracey Rose Peyton
3.85
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
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- audiobook
15. Monsters We Have Made
By: Lindsay Starck
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parent… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
16. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
17. Decent People
By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more
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- historical
- race
- fiction
- audiobook
18. My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
3.37
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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- race
- historical
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- audiobook
20. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
By: Soraya Palmer
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- audiobook
21. Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- audiobook
22. Pomegranate
By: Helen Elaine Lee
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, following a queer Black woman who w… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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24. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Applicant
By: Nazli Koca
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom… read more
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26. A Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- russia
- race
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- audiobook
27. What Napoleon Could Not Do
By: D.K. Nnuro
3.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this grip… read more
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- race
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28. The Unfortunates
By: J.K. Chukwu
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhau… read more
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29. An Autobiography of Skin
By: Lakiesha Carr
3.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue. "Powerful in its love for the genera… read more
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30. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
