Brown Girl in the Ring
By: Nalo Hopkinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything…
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1. Who Fears Death
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.94
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"My mother once said that fear is like a man who, once burned, is afraid of a glow worm"-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
2. Imaro (Imaro #1)
By: Charles de Lint , Charles R. Saunders
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imaro is a rousing adventure... a tale of a young man’s continuing struggle to gain acceptance amon… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
3. No Telephone to Heaven
By: Michelle Cliff
3.80
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political … read more
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- fiction
"She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague stains, fingered, smoothed. She opened the …"-Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven
"I was fortunate I knew her here." She heard her voice, clipped, distant—suddenly—as if she were describing a third-form teacher who had taught her Linnaean classification. No, she said to herself. I …"-Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven
4. The Female Man
By: Joanna Russ
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cover Artist: Louise Sullivan It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten esse… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
5. The Comet
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
3.80
Format: 319 pages, ebook
In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
6. The Gilda Stories
By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
7. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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- urban fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
8. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
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- fiction
- canada
10. The Living Blood (African Immortals, #2)
By: Tananarive Due
3.83
Format: None pages,
Jessica Jacobs-Wolde's life was destroyed when her husband, David Wolde killed both their daughter … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
11. Brown Girl in the Ring
By: Nalo Hopkinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more
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- urban fantasy
- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
12. Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback
For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his pr… read more
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13. Salt Fish Girl: A Novel
By: Larissa Lai
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form t… read more
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14. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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15. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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16. Magic City
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman … read more
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17. An Unkindness of Ghosts
By: Rivers Solomon
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The HSS Matildais a generation ship organized much like the antebellum South. Embroiled in a grudg… read more
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18. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
19. Fledgling
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more
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20. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
By: Ytasha L. Womack
3.29
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, litera… read more
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21. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
By: Malka Ann Older
4.01
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
22. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
23. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
By: Kelly Robson
3.60
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined pl… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
24. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
By: Sheree Renée Thomas
3.79
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
25. The Tiger Flu
By: Larissa Lai
3.53
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic wo… read more
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- canada
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
26. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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- canada
"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
27. Holy Wild
By: Gwen Benaway
4.19
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Trillium Book… read more
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- canada
"I am tired of explaining the fire. It burns because it must."-Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
"I have never been allowed to be holy. I have never been forgiven for wanting"-Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
28. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.18
Format: 120 pages, ebook
Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
29. Broughtupsy
By: Christina Cooke
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more
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- fiction
- canada
30. Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City
By: Michael Boyette
4.15
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.—Li… read more
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31. Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus, #1)
By: Nicky Drayden
3.76
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Escaping Exodus is a story of a young woman named Seske Kaleigh, heir to the command of a biologica… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"The price is high, and the price, it will change you. But the winner of life isn’t the one who gets through with the least number of scars."-Nicky Drayden, Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus, #1)
