His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres…
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1. The Pagoda
By: None , Patricia Powell
3.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 189… read more
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3. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
By: Lola Shoneyin
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi's Wives,… read more
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4. Stay with Me
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more
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5. I Do Not Come to You by Chance
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more
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6. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
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7. Tomorrow I Become a Woman
By: Aiwanose Odafen
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more
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8. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more
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9. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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10. 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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11. A Broken People's Playlist
By: Chimeka Garricks
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more
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"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist
12. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right
By: Ukamaka Olisakwe
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more
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13. The Middle Daughter
By: Chika Unigwe
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more
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14. The Marriage Class
By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
4.02
Format: None pages, None
One Class. Ten Couples. Ten Decisions. Abi and Raymond are engaged to be married and have starte… read more
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15. The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more
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"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
16. The Chicken Sisters
By: K.J. Dell'Antonia
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more
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"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
17. 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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18. Everything Inside
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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19. 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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20. Ginika's Bridesmaids: Book Two (Isioma)
By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
3.77
Format: 328 pages, None
Isioma is left heartbroken when an encounter with the debonair Karibi Graham-Hart turns out to be a… read more
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21. Adanna
By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi
4.13
Format: 621 pages, Kindle Edition
Adanna, the haunting beauty married off to a man three times her senior. After enduring two decades… read more
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