All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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1. Let the Great World Spin
By: Colum McCann
4.35
Format: None pages,
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring … read more
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- contemporary
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2. The Chemistry of Tears
By: Peter Carey
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden de… read more
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3. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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- short stories
4. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- african american
5. Corregidora
By: Gayl Jones
3.88
Format: 144 pages,
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the ni… read more
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6. Tar Baby
By: Toni Morrison
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more
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7. A Tempest
By: Aimé Césaire , Richard Miller
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempestdraws on contemporary Caribbean society, the… read more
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8. The Green Knight
By: Iris Murdoch
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblic… read more
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9. The Book of My Lives
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.43
Format: 232 pages,
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is cons… read more
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11. 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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12. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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13. Theft: A Love Story
By: Peter Carey
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Michael Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damag… read more
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14. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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15. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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16. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
17. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
18. The Stolen Coast
By: Dwyer Murphy
3.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more
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"The experience was collective, but not the memory."-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast
19. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.33
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
The singer, guitarist, and songwriter—best known for his work with Wilco—opens up about his past, h… read more
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"If you were me, which I am,"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
"The Chicago historian Studs Terkel asked Bob Dylan in the sixties about how he went about writing a song and trying to outdo himself, or at least being as good as the last song he wrote, and his resp…"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
"As we grow, we learn to evaluate and judge, to navigate the world with some discretion, and then we turn on ourselves – creating can't just be for the sake of creating anymore. It has to be good, or …"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
20. My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
By: Alice Randall
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often … read more
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21. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
By: James Kirchick
4.17
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair 's “Be… read more
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"Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"Scratch the surface and what do you get?" asked Way Bandy, the two-thousand-dollars-a-day make up artist who "designed" Nancy's face. "More surface."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"The following year, Kramer would put on Just Say No, "a play about a farce" based in the fictional country of New Columbia, wherein everyone call's the president "Daddy", the First Lady is a harridan…"-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team…"-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
