The Zulus of New York
By: Zakes Mda
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Drawing on the true history of ‘Farini’s Friendly Zulus’, a group of men who were taken to Britain …
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Het huis van de moskee
By: Kader Abdolah
4.12
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
De familie van Aga Djan is al eeuwenlang de belangrijkste familie in de Iraanse stad Senedjan. Zij … read more
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"Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own."-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"U selu poput ovoga uvijek se na nešto čekalo: ili da neko dođe, ili da ode, na rođenje nekog djeteta ili na nečiju smrt. Uspavano je selo vazdan iščekivalo kakav događaj, tek bi se tada prenulo."-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"Shvatam, ali i stolica je dio kina." Homeini ga iznenađeno pogleda, niko nikad s njim nije tako razgovarao. Ali je znao i da je Nosrat fotograf te da dvojicu ljudi uvijek moraš poslušati: kućnog ljek…"-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
"Nessuno teneva più il conto degli anni e non aveva senso contare i mesi. Il tempo era immobile per chi era immerso nel dolore, per chi era morto e per chi piangeva i suoi morti. Anche per chi vangava…"-Kader Abdolah, Het huis van de moskee
3. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
4. Red Ink
By: Angela Makholwa
3.81
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
When Lucy Khambule receives an unexpected call from a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The Butche… read more
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- south africa
- fiction
5. The Gift of Rain
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.20
Format: None pages,
Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage an… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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- historical fiction
7. The Book of Memory
By: Petina Gappah
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Memory is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, whe… read more
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- fiction
8. The Men Who Stare at Goats
By: Jon Ronson
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more
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9. 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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12. Under the Udala Trees
By: Chinelo Okparanta
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more
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13. The Yearning
By: Mohale Mashigo
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Yearning (noun): A feeling of intense longing for something. How long does it take for scars to hea… read more
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14. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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15. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
16. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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- historical fiction
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
17. The Echo Chamber
By: John Boyne
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more
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- fiction
"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
18. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
19. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
20. Chances Are...
By: Richard Russo
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more
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"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
21. Children of Sugarcane
By: Joanne Joseph
4.49
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth n… read more
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22. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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23. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more
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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
24. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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25. Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, … read more
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"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
26. The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3)
By: Namina Forna
3.94
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl … read more
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27. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
28. House of Stone
By: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a masterful debut that explores the … read more
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29. The Zulus of New York
By: Zakes Mda
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Drawing on the true history of ‘Farini’s Friendly Zulus’, a group of men who were taken to Britain … read more
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30. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
By: Kojo Koram
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Pri… read more
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31. They Got to You Too
By: Futhi Ntshingila
4.04
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African … read more
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