14 Best fiction books like Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei

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Hope Is Our Only Wing

By: Rutendo Tavengerwei

3.36

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

At a time of national upheaval in Zimbabwe, an unlikely friendship illuminates the power of hope an…

If you liked the fiction plot in Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. We Are Okay

By: Nina LaCour

3.94

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, you… read more

Similar categories in Nina LaCour's We Are Okay book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'm glad we didn't know better."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

2. Pashmina

By: Nidhi Chanani

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years a… read more

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3. Grendel

By: John Gardner

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more

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4. The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more

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5. One in a Million

By: Kimberla Lawson Roby

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the first novella by the New York Timesbestselling author of the Reverend Curtis Black series, a… read more

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6. Pears on a Willow Tree

By: Leslie Pietrzyk

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Pears on a Willow Treeis a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and … read more

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7. Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)

By: Adib Khorram

4.24

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Darius Kellner speaks better K… read more

Similar categories in Adib Khorram's Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1) book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"How could I be a tourist in my own past?"

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)

"...love was and opportunity, not a burden."

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)

"Don't ask me, we never did anything other than kissing."

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)

"Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression."

-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)

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8. A pediatra

By: Andréa del Fuego

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Com humor mordaz, o novo romance de Andréa del Fuego apresenta a história de uma personagem muito p… read more

Similar categories in Andréa del Fuego's A pediatra book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. How It Feels to Float

By: Helena Fox

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

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10. The Summer She Went Missing

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige R… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's The Summer She Went Missing book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. The Baby is Mine

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite

3.24

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle's house in loc… read more

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  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Black Candle Women

By: Diane Marie Brown

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."

-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women

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13. The Cost of Knowing

By: Brittney Morris

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down w… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.25

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more

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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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15. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: A Memoir book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • travel
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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16. Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Aminah Mae Safi

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works thr… read more

Similar categories in Aminah Mae Safi's Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • young adult
"A smile tugs at my lips. I know if anyone can best the queen of Jerusalem, it is I."

-Aminah Mae Safi, Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics)

"A smile tugs at my lips. I know if anyone can best the queen of Jerusalem, it is I. I know if anyone can take the things she cares for, it is I. For I am Rahma al-Hud - the Green Hood - and there's a…"

-Aminah Mae Safi, Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics)

"A smile tugs at my lips. I know if anyone can best the queen of Jerusalem, it is I. I know if anyone can take the things she cares for, it is I. For I am Rahma al-Hud -- the Green Hood -- and there's…"

-Aminah Mae Safi, Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics)

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17. The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

By: Victoria Lee

3.90

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole surv… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Lee's The Fever King (Feverwake, #1) book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Noam held a storm in his hands, and he couldn't feel a thing."

-Victoria Lee, The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

"Governments didn't have to listen to the people until the people made it hurt not to listen."

-Victoria Lee, The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

"When Noam was a kid and felt picky about choking down gefilte fish on Pesach, his dad sat him down and told him the story of la pobre viejecita. Once upon a time, there was an old lady with nothing t…"

-Victoria Lee, The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

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18. As Far As You'll Take Me

By: Phil Stamper

3.48

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

A story about finding the people who become your home. Marty arrives in London with nothing but … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"But you can have more than one family. You can choose your family."

-Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

"Megan's in the driver's seat. Me, the passenger. Always the passenger."

-Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

"To my family. The one I was born into, and the one I found along the way."

-Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

"I spend so much of my time trying to make my sexuality as little of a deal as possible, while everyone else in my life seems to be making it into a huge thing."

-Phil Stamper, As Far As You'll Take Me

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19. Summer of Salt

By: Katrina Leno

4.00

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A magic passed down through generations . . . Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience fo… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Summer of Salt book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Oh?"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"What more could I want?"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"I’ll have to build a widow’s walk,"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"And besides that, people don’t always think the truth."

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

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20. Death at Morning House

By: Maureen Johnson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Hope Is Our Only Wing

By: Rutendo Tavengerwei

3.36

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

At a time of national upheaval in Zimbabwe, an unlikely friendship illuminates the power of hope an… read more

Similar categories in Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing book and Rutendo Tavengerwei's Hope Is Our Only Wing

  • cultural
  • africa
  • teen
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • zimbabwe
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family

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Nina LaCour

3.94

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4.24

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3.95

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3.83

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2.00

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4.02

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4.01

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