The Year of Return
By: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
4.62
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
In December 2019, as Ghana's vibrant streets buzz with the climax of the "Year of Return," an initi…
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1. Last Days
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.75
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
2. House of Cotton
By: Monica Brashears
3.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more
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- fiction
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3. One of Us Knows
By: Alyssa Cole
3.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come… read more
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- fiction
- horror
4. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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- fiction
5. The Scourge Between Stars
By: Ness Brown
3.59
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more
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- fiction
- horror
6. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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- fiction
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
7. Allow Me to Introduce Myself
By: Onyi Nwabineli
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more
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- fiction
8. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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- fiction
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
9. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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10. The Crimson Crown (The Crimson Crown Duology)
By: Heather Walter
4.17
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them all? Snow White’s dark queen tells her sid… read more
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- fantasy
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11. Someone Birthed Them Broken
By: Ama Asantewa Diaka
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by a… read more
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- fiction
12. What You Leave Behind
By: Wanda M. Morris
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more
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- fiction
13. This Motherless Land
By: Nikki May
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more
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14. Broken. Not a halal love story
By: Fatima Bala
4.19
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In this heartwrenching new novel from Award-winning author and poet, Fatima Bala, a connection send… read more
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"Broken into fragments, Heartbeats - counted, limited. Yet, I’d give all the beats I have left to hear my name escape your lips again. Ours is a togetherness that honors the beauty of our solitude."-Fatima Bala, Broken. Not a halal love story
15. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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16. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
17. 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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18. Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)
By: Attica Locke
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning… read more
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19. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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20. The Year of Return
By: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
4.62
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
In December 2019, as Ghana's vibrant streets buzz with the climax of the "Year of Return," an initi… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
