The Day I Fell Off My Island
By: Yvonne Bailey-Smith
4.11
Format: 393 pages, ebook
The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted fro…
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1. No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
By: Sally Donovan
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'I love you, no matter what.' This book tells the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who bu… read more
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2. Here Comes the Sun
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.94
Format: 256 pages,
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more
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3. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
4. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
5. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
6. A Broken People's Playlist
By: Chimeka Garricks
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist
7. 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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"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
8. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- fiction
"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
10. The Middle Daughter
By: Chika Unigwe
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more
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11. The Island of Forgetting
By: Jasmine Sealy
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more
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- contemporary
12. Everything Is Not Enough (In Every Mirror She’s Black #2)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature. A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick. Am… read more
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13. Lucky Girl
By: Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a… read more
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- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
14. 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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- novels
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
15. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- fiction
16. Sweetness in the Skin
By: Ishi Robinson
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmai… read more
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- coming of age
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
17. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
18. A Million Aunties
By: Alecia McKenzie
3.43
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his m… read more
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- contemporary
19. Dominoes
By: Phoebe Mcintosh
3.76
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more
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20. The Day I Fell Off My Island
By: Yvonne Bailey-Smith
4.11
Format: 393 pages, ebook
The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted fro… read more
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- contemporary
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- book club
21. For Such a Time as This
By: Shani Akilah
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more
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