28 Top fiction books like The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing by Mukana Press

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The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing

By: Mukana Press

4.11

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Who are Africa’s most promising emerging short story writers? Mukana Press sought to answer that qu…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing by Mukana Press , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

By: Alexandra Christo

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of To Kill a Kingdom comes Princess of Souls, a Rapunzel-inspired YA fantasy romanc… read more

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  • fiction
"Death has a habit of getting its way."

-Alexandra Christo, Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

"This castle is lonely enough without having to be alone in it."

-Alexandra Christo, Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

"I'm being serious." "You're always serious, it's a real personality flaw."

-Alexandra Christo, Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

"It's fine," I say, shrugging it off. "I'm fine." It's the biggest lie I've ever told."

-Alexandra Christo, Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

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2. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

By: Paul Pringle

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more

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3. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

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  • fiction
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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4. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

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  • fiction
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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5. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • fiction
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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6. You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride (Sean of the South)

By: Sean Dietrich

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. … read more

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7. Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

By: Joan He

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm… read more

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  • fiction
"When i was mortal, I thought myself a god."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

"People are more predictable than they care to admit."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

"You wound me I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have."

-Joan He, Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1)

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8. The Woman Inside

By: M.T. Edvardsson

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-tu… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Blade of Secrets (Bladesmith, #1)

By: Tricia Levenseller

3.96

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe … read more

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  • fiction
"I am more than my fear and weaknesses, but so much of the time, they're all I can think about."

-Tricia Levenseller, Blade of Secrets (Bladesmith, #1)

"One day, you’re going to fall madly in love. You’ll find someone who will make you want to leave the forge. You won't even see him coming."

-Tricia Levenseller, Blade of Secrets (Bladesmith, #1)

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10. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Lakesedge (World at the Lake's Edge, #1)

By: Lyndall Clipstone

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A gothic fantasy about monsters and magic, set on the banks of a cursed lake. There are monsters in… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Business Not As Usual

By: Sharon C. Cooper

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman learns the hard way about mixing business with pleasure in this hilarious new romantic come… read more

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  • fiction
"I believe in love at first sight because sometimes love can't be explained."

-Sharon C. Cooper, Business Not As Usual

"You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have connections and strong relationships, all you have is....money. Money alone is not always enough."

-Sharon C. Cooper, Business Not As Usual

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14. Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1)

By: Ivelisse Housman

3.76

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters, both on the run, but different as day and night. One, a professional rogue, searches … read more

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  • fiction
"Fairy mischief is just a part of life. Anyone with common sense accepts this and does their best to co-exist, with bribes of milk and shiny things."

-Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie (The Unseelie Duology, #1)

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15. Send Her Back and Other Stories

By: Munashe Kaseke

4.10

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the… read more

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  • fiction
  • africa
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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16. Secrets So Deep

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.70

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a darkly atmospheric paranormal thriller… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

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  • fiction
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18. 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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  • fiction
"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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19. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Your husband is a landowner,” they told her. “Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on tr… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Locust Lane

By: Stephen Amidon

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

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  • fiction
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23. How to Heal a Gryphon (Giada the Healer #1)

By: Meg Cannistra

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

To save her family, she’ll have to make a dangerous bargain and tip the scales off balance. With… read more

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  • fiction
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24. The Wrong Kind of Weird

By: James Ramos

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cameron Carson has a secret. A secret with the power to break apart his friend group.Cameron Carson… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Valley of Shadows

By: Rudy Ruiz

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror,  Valley of Shadows  sheds li… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Twice as Perfect

By: Louisa Onomé

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Young Adult novel by Louisa Onomé, Twice As Perfect follows a Nigerian Canadian girl dealing with… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Sunsetter

By: Curtis LeBlanc

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A propulsive, fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corrupti… read more

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  • fiction
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28. The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing

By: Mukana Press

4.11

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Who are Africa’s most promising emerging short story writers? Mukana Press sought to answer that qu… read more

Similar categories in Mukana Press's The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing book and Mukana Press's The Newlywed's Window: The 2022 Mukana Press Anthology of African Writing

  • africa
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • african literature
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29. Sins of the Tribe

By: Mark A. Salter

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Amazon Best Seller in Football Coaching & Sociology of Sports 2023 National Indie Excellence Winne… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Totally Psychic (Totally Psychic #1)

By: Brigid Martin

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This debut middle grade series stars a Cuban-American tween medium navigating friends, family and g… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Life Lessons from Hip-Hop: 50 Reflections on Creativity, Motivation and Wellbeing

By: Grant Brydon

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Take control of your narrative and become the best version of yourself with 50 Hip-Hop inspired les… read more

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