A Particular Kind of Black Man
By: Tope Folarin
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope…
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1. Every Day Is for the Thief
By: Teju Cole
3.70
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself… read more
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"Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spo…"-Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief
2. How Should a Person Be?
By: Sheila Heti
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Storiesand Ticknorcomes a bold interrogatio… read more
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3. Arrow of God (The African Trilogy #3)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Set in the Igbo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conf… read more
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4. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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5. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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6. An Untamed State
By: Roxane Gay
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her … read more
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7. No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil servi… read more
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8. Loon Lake
By: E.L. Doctorow
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
It is America in the great depression, and he is a child of that time, that place. He runs away fro… read more
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9. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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10. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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11. 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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"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
12. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
13. 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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14. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
15. Red at the Bone
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.97
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the … read more
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"A new fear like a dragging bruise moving in his stomach."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
". . . Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . ."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"God'll make a butt-ugly boy, but I ain't never seen him make a ugly girl child."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"Iris didn't understand his happiness. How this was so absolutely enough for him."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
16. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
17. Brother
By: David Chariandy
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions o… read more
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"She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha."-David Chariandy, Brother
18. The Nigerwife
By: Vanessa Walters
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more
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"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife
19. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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20. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more
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"Burial is just another recipe"-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
21. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
By: Laura Warrell
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ m… read more
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22. The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
2.96
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more
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23. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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24. The Man Who Lived Underground
By: Richard Wright
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,… read more
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"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"Yes, the only being who could possibly gaze down upon such a hopeless spectacle and encompass its meaninglessness would have to be a god. That was it! Maybe men had invented gods to feel what they co…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint patt…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
25. The Two Lives of Sara
By: Catherine Adel West
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where fa… read more
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"There's no such thing as a perfect so make peace with that now. Save yourself a lot of tears later."-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
"Will made me say it. Worse, he made me feel it. What will that do to me, to him, to all of us? How dangerous is my love?"-Catherine Adel West, The Two Lives of Sara
26. Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
By: Flower Darby
4.14
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: … read more
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27. Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
By: Kristen R. Lee
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embra… read more
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28. 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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29. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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30. A Particular Kind of Black Man
By: Tope Folarin
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope… read more
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31. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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