The Rib King
By: Ladee Hubbard
3.50
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Upstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs pain…
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1. Dodgers
By: Bill Beverly
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
2. Black Water Rising
By: Attica Locke
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in Amer… read more
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- african american
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)
By: Chester Himes
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a wh… read more
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- african american
- fiction
4. The Free
By: Willy Vlautin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues fac… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- novels
5. In the Fall
By: Jeffrey Lent
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A rich and masterful novel about love and the question of race in post-Civil War America; Spanning … read more
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6. Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
By: Bernice L. McFadden
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
"Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugarspeaks of what is real." --The Da… read more
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7. Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
By: David Hurst Thomas
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more… read more
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8. The Hundred-Year House
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless … read more
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9. Girl in Disguise
By: Greer Macallister
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
For the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by. Danger, however, is not. In t… read more
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10. Black Sunday
By: Tola Rotimi Abraham
3.65
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously unique and universal (NPR), this fiercely original debut novel follows the fate of f… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Gone but not Forgotten."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Children can have stubborn pain too."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Lagos is filled with broke men with big dreams."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
"Just give me five years, I'll ruin his entire life."-Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday
11. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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- race
- african american
- audiobook
"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
12. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
13. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
By: Earl Swift
3.98
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
14. Crooked Hallelujah
By: Kelli Jo Ford
3.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
15. Bright Red Fruit
By: Safia Elhillo
4.49
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
16. Caul Baby
By: Morgan Jerkins
3.79
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying nov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- novels
- african american
- audiobook
17. Revival Season
By: Monica West
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
18. Gone Wolf
By: Amber McBride
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
19. 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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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
20. Sisters with a Side of Greens
By: Michelle Stimpson
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"A charming novel about sisterhood, regrets, and second chances, [with] a peek into Southern comfo… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"This ain't no time for you to be a deadbeat sister. Again." I gasped. "Deadbeat? Again?" Kerresha dragged her suitcase up the steps, now. "Absent. Estranged. Not present. Whatever you want to call it…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"Cooking with Momma's spices helped Marvina process. Never mind she didn't have enough people in the house to eat everything she laid out for preparation. Several pies, pork chops, chicken, greens, ma…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"We stood still, the tenderness between us almost tangible. The scent of the spices, human empathy, and plain old muscle memory combined to re-create the gooey magnetism of being near Marvina again. F…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
"I sprinkled a dose of Momma's seasoning into my cupped hand and dipped my tongue into the tiny pool of memories I knew one taste would evoke. Salty, savory, smoky, full of earthy flavors that somehow…"-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens
21. Win Me Something
By: Kyle Lucia Wu
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
22. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
23. Last Couple Standing
By: Matthew Norman
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment—and get in w… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
24. The Opium Prince
By: Jasmine Aimaq
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. American Pop
By: Snowden Wright
3.25
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The story of a family. The story of an empire. The story of a nation. Moving from Mississippi to… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The man wore a black suit rather than a tuxedo, which made him both stand out from and blend into the crowd, a sore thumb on a broken hand."-Snowden Wright, American Pop
26. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
27. The Rib King
By: Ladee Hubbard
3.50
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Upstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs pain… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- african american
- audiobook
28. Normal: Book 1 (Normal, #1)
By: Warren Ellis
3.98
Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition
A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visi… read more
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- fiction
29. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
30. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- adult
- fiction
31. They Dream in Gold
By: Mai Sennaar
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A “luminous” (Tara Conklin) literary debut following two dreamers, one intercultural family, and th… read more
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- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
