23 Top fiction books like Nobody’s Pilgrims by Sergio Troncoso

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Nobody’s Pilgrims

By: Sergio Troncoso

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn meets No Country for Old Men in this story of three teenagers on…

"Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this secret self is comforting, for its privacy. Sometimes it is amusing, when he witnesses what crazy assumptions others have of him. Too often this gap is dispiriting, a prison inside of him without any means of escape."

-Sergio Troncoso, Nobody’s Pilgrims

"Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this secret self is comforting, for its privacy. Sometimes it is amusing, when he witnesses what crazy assumptions others have of him. Too often this gap is dispiriting, a prison inside of him without any means of escape."

-Sergio Troncoso, Nobody’s Pilgrims

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1. Juliet Takes a Breath

By: Gabby Rivera

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to h… read more

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"Read because you’re tired of secrets."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?"

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

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2. Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1)

By: Linda Castillo

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Hardcover

When a serial killer strikes bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio, the killer's signature ---Roman numerals … read more

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3. All They Will Call You

By: Tim Z. Hernandez

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of "the worst airplane disaster in California's his… read more

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4. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

By: Anita Loos

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more

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6. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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7. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

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8. The Fervor

By: Alma Katsu

3.63

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in … read more

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"No computer books for me. I love real books I can hold and open with excitement, anticipation and, yes, reverence. There is nothing like the smell of a book, bookshops and libraries"

-Alma Katsu, The Fervor

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9. Solutions and Other Problems

By: Allie Brosh

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. … read more

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"If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Death can take away your friends and pets, but it can't take away the weird shit they did."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"That's the scary thing about decisions: you don't know what they are when you're making them."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

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10. L.A. Weather

By: María Amparo Escandón

3.18

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon … read more

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11. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

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12. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

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"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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13. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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14. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more

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"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."

-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

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15. 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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  • fiction
"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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16. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

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  • fiction
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17. We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

By: Beto O'Rourke

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In We’ve Got To Try, O’Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron … read more

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18. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

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19. Gordo

By: Jaime Cortez

4.25

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more

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Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

20. 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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21. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

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"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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22. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

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"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

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23. Basura

By: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny

4.18

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Alicia fue abandonada de niña en el basurero municipal de Ciudad Juárez; su diario rascar en busca … read more

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"Hogar es donde uno va, hogar es uno, es su frase favorita."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"Mi tía les demostró lo que nuestra sociedad se niega a entender: una mujer sola es capaz de mucho. De todo."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"No sé cómo lo imaginé, supongo que esperaba silencio o gritos, porque así se comunican la rabia y la tristeza."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

"Tú me ves aquí como santa matrona del trabajo en esa esquina a la que ni el olvido llega, pero ya te dije que yo tenía una vida soñada."

-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura

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24. The Women Could Fly

By: Megan Giddings

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social c… read more

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25. The Family Izquierdo

By: Ruben Degollado

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022 Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award A masterful de… read more

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26. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

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27. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family

By: Yasmin Ramirez

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When I tell people who don't speak Spanish what prieta means--dark or the dark one--their eyes pop … read more

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28. Thirty Talks Weird Love

By: Alessandra Narváez Varela

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

⭐ "Fans of The House on Mango Street and The House of Spirits will be riveted"―Booklist, Starred Re… read more

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Cover of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael  Zapata

29. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more

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"His father was a pirate."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."

-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

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30. Nobody’s Pilgrims

By: Sergio Troncoso

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn meets No Country for Old Men in this story of three teenagers on… read more

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"Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this…"

-Sergio Troncoso, Nobody’s Pilgrims

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31. Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands

By: Jonna Perrillo

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists… read more

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