Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
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1. An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
2. Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- feminism
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
3. 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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- adult fiction
- 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
4. How to Kill Your Family
By: Bella Mackie
3.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
5. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
6. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
7. Honey & Spice
By: Bolu Babalola
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passio… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"There's a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"My heart had never been compelled into competitive sports by boys and yet here it was, acting like an Olympian, beating like its name was Serena."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself."-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
"Romance was a waste of time, a form of manipulation utilised by boys who didn't wash their bed sheets regularly. It existed sure, but I wasn't surrounded by anyone I believed engaged in it properly, …"-Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice
8. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
9. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.36
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more
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- adult fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Fuck them ribs."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
"We said till death do us part."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
10. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
11. Only for the Week
By: Natasha Bishop
4.40
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Amerie Cross and Arnold Hightower.And now a toast from … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
12. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
13. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
14. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
15. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
- 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
16. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
17. Ghosts
By: Dolly Alderton
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
18. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
19. My Sister, the Serial Killer
By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
3.66
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Ayoola summons me with these words—Korede, I killed him."-Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer
"He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar."-Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer
"But the truth is, there is no way to make cleaning sound sexy - unless you are cleaning a sports car, in a bikini."-Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer
"I wonder what the chances are that the death of a person in the company of a serial killer would come about by chance."-Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer
20. Seven Days in June
By: Tia Williams
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from a… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Religion. Hmm. I guess it's like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s'mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body."-Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
21. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)
By: Danielle Allen
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
