Silver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
4.30
Format: None pages,
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Taya…
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1. Perfect Peace
By: Daniel Black
4.32
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother… read more
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- audiobook
- african american
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up."-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
"You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you"-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
"Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer."-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
"Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you."-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
2. The Mothers
By: Brit Bennett
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
3. Silver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
4.30
Format: None pages,
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Taya… read more
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- literary fiction
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- african american
- audiobook
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5. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
7. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
8. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
10. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
11. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
12. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
13. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
14. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.42
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
15. The Thing About Home
By: Rhonda McKnight
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renew… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
16. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
17. Brooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- audiobook
18. Maame
By: Jessica George
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."-Jessica George, Maame
"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."-Jessica George, Maame
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."-Jessica George, Maame
"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."-Jessica George, Maame
19. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
20. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
21. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
