If I Had Two Wings
By: Randall Kenan
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of…
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1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
By: Lilian Jackson Braun
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Jim Qwilleran is a prizewinning reporter who's been on the skids but is now coming back with a job … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"It was a man's salad, zesty and full of crunch."-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
"When a cat, who is a picture of grace and beauty, suddenly rolls over in a hideous posture, contorts his face and scratches his ear, he is telling you, sir, to go to blazes!"-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)
2. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- short stories
- african american
- fiction
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
3. Corregidora
By: Gayl Jones
3.88
Format: 144 pages,
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the ni… read more
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4. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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5. Thick: And Other Essays
By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more
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- african american
"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
6. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
7. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
9. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
10. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
11. Missionaries
By: Phil Klay
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection Redeployment comes an ast… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You can see a person's soul in the eyes, they say, but you can also see them in the hands."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"Life," he says, grinning at his joke. "It's a terrible condition. It's got a one-hundred-percent mortality rate."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"Men are weak. Don't ask if they're good or bad. We're all sinful. Ask if they're better or worse than the times they lived in."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"fear became something in the background, like the heat of summer, something you acknowledge and sometimes even complain about but which you do not expect to change."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
12. The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts
By: Gregg Hecimovich
3.87
Format: 304 pages, ebook
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from t… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
13. The Great Offshore Grounds
By: Vanessa Veselka
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and cast… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Have you ever noticed that girls take psych and boys take philosophy? You see it everywhere you look, this idea that women should be so interested in what someone else thinks. I'm not. And that, it t…"-Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds
14. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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- audiobook
15. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
By: Daniel Wallace
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more
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- audiobook
16. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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- african american
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- queer
18. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
19. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
By: Christopher R. Beha
4.07
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher dec… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
21. If I Had Two Wings
By: Randall Kenan
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When Randall Kenan’s first collection was published, the New York Times called it “nothing short of… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- queer
