Good Intentions
By: Kasim Ali
3.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut Good Intentions, a novel about a young man who …
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1. Summer Skin
By: Kirsty Eagar
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Jess Gordon is out for revenge. Last year the jocks from Knights College tried to shame her best fr… read more
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2. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
3. 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
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
4. 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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5. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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6. Good Intentions
By: Kasim Ali
3.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut Good Intentions, a novel about a young man who … read more
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- adult
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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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- romance
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"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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"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. Wahala
By: Nikki May
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best f… read more
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10. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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11. 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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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
12. Ghost Girl, Banana
By: Wiz Wharton
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more
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13. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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14. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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15. Everything Is Not Enough (In Every Mirror She’s Black #2)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature. A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick. Am… read more
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16. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- asian literature
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
17. No Secrets
By: David Jackson
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more
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18. Sunny
By: Sukh Ojla
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for... Sunny is the queen of l… read more
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19. Brown Girls
By: Daphne Palasi Andreades
3.90
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens,… read more
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20. These Streets
By: Luan Goldie
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more
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21. Hope and Glory
By: Jendella Benson
3.65
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death … read more
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22. The Yellow Kitchen
By: Margaux Vialleron
3.38
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging… read more
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23. Every Happy Family
By: Sarah Stovell
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and Bert are over the moon to have their three grown-up children home for the first time in … read more
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24. Goddess of the River
By: Vaishnavi Patel
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more
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25. Under the Tamarind Tree
By: Nigar Alam
3.74
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize A compellingly heartbreaking debut no… read more
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26. Dominoes
By: Phoebe Mcintosh
3.76
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more
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27. The Castle Keepers
By: Aimie K. Runyan
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite … read more
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28. Love Lessons in Starcross Valley
By: Lucy Knott
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'A lovely, very different 5 read from Lucy Knott, full of her trademark cosiness' Sam Tonge, author… read more
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"I loved us the moment I saurus," came Nova's voice from across the park. "I love that one."-Lucy Knott, Love Lessons in Starcross Valley
"For example, you couldn't read: You make my heart Saur, without knowing that the person who had written the message was proposing some kind of interest, could you?"-Lucy Knott, Love Lessons in Starcross Valley
29. How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures
By: Huma Qureshi
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"This beautiful, romantic memoir grabs you from the first page and won't let you go. Told with hear… read more
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30. People Change
By: Sara Jafari
3.86
Format: None pages, ebook
When Shirin bumps into Kian at a house party in Brixton, she is taken aback by the feelings that re… read more
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31. Finding Mr Perfectly Fine
By: Tasneem Abdur-Rashid
3.59
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Last week I turned 29. Along with the usual homemade Victoria sponge, helium balloon and Selfridges… read more
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