Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
By: Krystal A. Sital
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and coco…
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1. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
By: Lola Shoneyin
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi's Wives,… read more
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- family
2. Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more
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- feminism
- adult
"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
3. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
4. 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
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- family
"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
5. Stolen Crush (Lost Daughter of a Serial Killer, #1)
By: C.M. Stunich
4.31
Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition
Finding out you’re the daughter of a millionaire true crime novelist isn’t all it’s cracked up to b… read more
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"That’s the issue with being a teenager: you need guidance and help, but you don’t need to be torn apart, ordered around, and dehumanized. Why the fuck don’t parents get it? Why, why, why?"-C.M. Stunich, Stolen Crush (Lost Daughter of a Serial Killer, #1)
6. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more
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- adult
7. 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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- adult
"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
8. Wahala
By: Nikki May
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best f… read more
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- adult
9. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
10. 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
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- feminism
- adult
11. Hungry Ghosts
By: Kevin Jared Hosein
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more
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"Sorrow felt selfish."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
12. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- adult
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
13. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
14. 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
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- cultural
15. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult
16. 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
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- feminism
- adult
"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
17. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
3.99
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more
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18. A Trace of Sun
By: Pam Williams
3.73
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more
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19. 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
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20. Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
By: Krystal A. Sital
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and coco… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
21. Grown Women
By: Sarai Johnson
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and d… read more
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"I don’t think you’re ever really grown."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
"Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them."-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women
