24 Best fiction books like Suitcase of Memory by Aeysha Kassiem

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Suitcase of Memory

By: Aeysha Kassiem

4.21

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Bastian Bredenkamp is dead. But even the dead have secrets. From the grave, Bastian weaves together…

If you liked the fiction plot in Suitcase of Memory by Aeysha Kassiem , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

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"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

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2. 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

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3. The Keeper of Lost Things

By: Ruth Hogan

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveri… read more

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4. Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto

By: Ezekiel Mphahlele , Es'kia Mphahlele

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa--available for the first time i… read more

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  • south africa
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5. Black Boy

By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more

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6. The Mystery of Mercy Close (Walsh Family, #5)

By: Marian Keyes

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and go… read more

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7. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women'… read more

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8. Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

3.85

Format: None pages,

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more

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9. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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10. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

11. 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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12. Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair

By: Christina Lamb , Nujeen Mustafa

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christin… read more

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13. The Dictionary of Lost Words

By: Pip Williams

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the… read more

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"The past came towards me, and I closed the book."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"It is context...that gives meaning. [Harry Nicholl]"

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"Sometimes I think there may be more than two sides."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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14. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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15. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

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16. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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17. One Summer in Savannah

By: Terah Shelton Harris

4.14

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating que… read more

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18. The Death of Vivek Oji

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more

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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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19. Honey & Spice

By: Bolu Babalola

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passio… read more

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"There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over."

-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

"My heart had never been compelled into competitive sports by boys and yet here it was, acting like an Olympian, beating like its name was Serena."

-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

"I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself."

-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

"Romance was a waste of time, a form of manipulation utilised by boys who didn't wash their bed sheets regularly. It existed sure, but I wasn't surrounded by anyone I believed engaged in it properly, …"

-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

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20. 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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Cover of Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

21. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

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"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

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22. An Island

By: Karen Jennings

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with … read more

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23. The Other Black Girl

By: Zakiya Dalila Harris

3.36

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more

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"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

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24. The Color Purple

By: Alice Walker

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and … read more

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"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."

-Alice Walker, The Color Purple

"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."

-Alice Walker, The Color Purple

"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is."

-Alice Walker, The Color Purple

"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."

-Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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25. A Girl Is a Body of Water

By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4.15

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more

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"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."

-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water

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26. Olga

By: Bernhard Schlink

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a… read more

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"History is not the past as it really was. It's the shape we give it."

-Bernhard Schlink, Olga

"No quiero desterrarte de mi vida. Siempre tendrás un lugar en mi corazón, un cofrecillo tuyo y de nadie más ante el que de vez en cuando me detendré para pensar en ti. Pero a hora tengo que cerrar el…"

-Bernhard Schlink, Olga

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27. Chasing Marian

By: Amy Heydenrych

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Four strangers, two cities, one chance online meeting. Jess is a yummy mummy of two whose life is s… read more

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28. A Family Affair: A Novel

By: Sue Nyathi

4.17

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Family is complicated … Meet the Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As l… read more

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29. An Unusual Grief

By: Yewande Omotoso

3.76

Format: 240 pages, None

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother… read more

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30. Suitcase of Memory

By: Aeysha Kassiem

4.21

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Bastian Bredenkamp is dead. But even the dead have secrets. From the grave, Bastian weaves together… read more

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31. Prayer for the Living

By: Ben Okri

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking – the stories in this… read more

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21 Best fiction books like One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ashley Elston

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