Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree
By: Niq Mhlongo
3.76
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
“This apricot tree has multiple souls that fill me with wonder every morning and enchant me by afte…
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1. The People in the Trees
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.73
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more
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"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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4. Spilt Milk
By: Kopano Matlwa
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present, this remarkable n… read more
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- africa
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5. 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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6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Jenny Davidson
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemic… read more
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- short stories
7. Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
By: Zakes Mda
3.98
Format: 480 pages,
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast a… read more
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- africa
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8. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
By: Kim Malone Scott
4.00
Format: None pages,
From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more
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9. Communion: The Female Search for Love
By: bell hooks
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more
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10. We Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more
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11. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- contemporary
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
12. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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13. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 336 pages, ebook
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more
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"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
14. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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- contemporary
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
15. Wash Day Diaries
By: Jamila Rowser
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more
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16. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- contemporary
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
17. To Sir, with Love
By: Lauren Layne
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that… read more
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- contemporary
"But I also know that we get only so many trips around the sun."-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love
"Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go."-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love
"And I’d be lying if I didn’t take a lot of pride in what I think of as my personal superpower: the ability to accept and embrace things as they are, not as I wish they could be."-Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love
18. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- contemporary
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
19. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more
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20. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- south africa
- contemporary
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
21. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)
By: Elodie Harper
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more
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22. Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
By: Joya Goffney
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The second novel about a preacher's daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving hers… read more
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- contemporary
"The things we resent about other people, aren’t those always the things we hate most about ourselves? (Page 104)"-Joya Goffney, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
"I used to think he was my hero. Wow, and I thought Mom was the villian. It's crazy how they switched places. I follow behind her, thinking of all the times Daddy bulldozed over Mom, and how many time…"-Joya Goffney, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
23. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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24. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
By: Elodie Harper
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition
The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more
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25. Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781646220830. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudic… read more
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- contemporary
"Rotten eggs that will never hatch"-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Not even crocodiles eat their young...papa takes care of his children."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
26. 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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- contemporary
"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
27. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
28. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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29. Speak No Evil
By: Uzodinma Iweala
3.86
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
A revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a cha… read more
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- contemporary
"Good, he says, trust your judgement."-Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
"Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners."-Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
"Are you lost if you know where you're going-- just not how to get there?"-Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
"The days since then have been a timeless fuzz. I feel time pass but nothing actually seems to happen."-Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
30. Better Never than Late
By: Chika Unigwe
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a tr… read more
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31. Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree
By: Niq Mhlongo
3.76
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
“This apricot tree has multiple souls that fill me with wonder every morning and enchant me by afte… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- contemporary
- african literature
