26 must-read fiction books like C.R.E.A.M.: A Novel About the Streets (C.R.E.A.M., 1) by Solomon Jones

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C.R.E.A.M.: A Novel About the Streets (C.R.E.A.M., 1)

By: Solomon Jones

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

A new, gritty, powerful tale from Solomon Jones ― the critically acclaimed and bestselling author o…

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1. Perfect Peace

By: Daniel Black

4.32

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother… read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
"Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you"

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

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2. The Upper Room

By: Mary Monroe

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Maureen, a young black girl torn between her mother, the notorious Mama Ruby, whose healing powers … read more

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  • african american
  • urban
  • fiction
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3. Monday's Not Coming

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.25

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been in… read more

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  • fiction
"...Dandelions are nothing but pretty weeds."

-Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

"And dandelions are nothing but pretty weeds. - Claudia"

-Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

"Well, sometimes the people we love the most can hurt us the most."

-Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

"Kids tend to forget their roots. But roots are always the first to carry you back home."

-Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

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4. Confessions of a Video Vixen

By: Karen Hunter , Karrine Steffans

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nick… read more

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  • african american

5. The Vixen Diaries

By: Karrine Steffans

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

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6. The Cabin

By: Natasha Preston

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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7. 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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  • fiction
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8. With My Little Eye

By: Joshilyn Jackson

3.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more

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  • fiction
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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10. The Favor

By: Nicci French

3.42

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young … read more

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  • fiction
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11. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

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12. Grown

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific … read more

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  • fiction
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13. These Deadly Games

By: Diana Urban

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the po… read more

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  • fiction
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14. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more

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  • fiction
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

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15. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more

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  • fiction
"Fuck them ribs."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"We said till death do us part."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

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16. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

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  • fiction
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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17. Only for the Week

By: Natasha Bishop

4.40

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Amerie Cross and Arnold Hightower.And now a toast from … read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
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18. The Blame Game

By: Sandie Jones

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

She knows she’s telling the truth. But the evidence says she’s lying. As a psychologist speciali… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Gatekeeper (Dez Limerick, #1)

By: James Byrne

4.11

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years.… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Chasing the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box brings his signature prose to this s… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • fiction
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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23. The Escape Room

By: Megan Goldin

3.83

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. In the lucrative world of financ… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

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25. The Obsession

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.73

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Lo… read more

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  • fiction
"Erotomania"

-Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Obsession

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26. Carolina Built

By: Kianna Alexander

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New Yo… read more

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  • fiction
"When I interact with others, I try to let goodwill and love for humanity guide me. I don't always succeed, but I pray for the grace to do better the next time."

-Kianna Alexander, Carolina Built

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27. Where They Wait

By: Scott Carson

3.63

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)

By: Danielle Allen

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
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29. The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)

By: Kiersten Modglin

4.02

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

The dark, scandalous, and completely twisted sequel to Kiersten Modglin’s #1 bestselling domestic t… read more

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  • fiction
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30. C.R.E.A.M.: A Novel About the Streets (C.R.E.A.M., 1)

By: Solomon Jones

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

A new, gritty, powerful tale from Solomon Jones ― the critically acclaimed and bestselling author o… read more

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  • african american
  • urban
  • fiction
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31. Drowning Practice

By: Mike Meginnis

3.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Profoundly moving, filled with tenderness, and brought to life by a curious, sprawling imagination,… read more

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  • fiction

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4.06

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