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Intimate Soul: Embracing the Passion

by Surreal

Intimate Soul: Embracing the Passion Surreal 9780974595405 Nonfiction Writersandpoets.com Writersandpoets.com Intimate Soul is a life changing read. Intimate Soul delivers to its reader what all have...

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The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies

by Unathi Slasha

The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies Unathi Slasha 9781957810485 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young cremat...

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The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)

by Kola Boof

The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Kola Boof 9781936070961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Number 7 on HEY, SMALL PRESS’s Best Of 2011 list (heysmallpress.org)!"From the mal...

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He Sleeps: A Novel

by Reginald McKnight

He Sleeps: A Novel Reginald McKnight 9780805048285 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers In this prize-winning author’s most ambitious book to date, an African-American anthropologist tryi...

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Wells Without Water

by Cebo Campbell

Wells Without Water Cebo Campbell 9781668226124 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author of Sky Full of Elephants returns with an evocative, harrowing novel about the bonds of commun...

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Beyond the Baths of Stars

by Schneider K. Rancy

Beyond the Baths of Stars Schneider K. Rancy 9780063443501 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A dazzling literary debut that reimagines The Odyssey while asking how much control we truly have over our live...

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The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir

by Byron Bowers

The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir Byron Bowers 9780306828454 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Comedian and actor Byron Bowers’ wild, funny, a...

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House of Margins

by Tlotlo Tsamaase

House of Margins Tlotlo Tsamaase 9781645661047 Fiction Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as a young African author disappears ...

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On Sundays She Picked Flowers

by Yah Yah Scholfield

On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield 9781668091210 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Lone Women meets Sorrowland in this surreal Southern Gothic debut in which a woman escapes into...

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Suder

by Percival Everett

Suder Percival Everett 9798217008469 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Now with a brilliant new package, this reissue of Suder by Percival Everett—New York Times bestselling author and winner of th...

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Fela: Music Is the Weapon

by Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery

Fela: Music Is the Weapon Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery 9780063058798 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-Africa...

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Curdle Creek

by Yvonne Battle-Felton

Curdle Creek Yvonne Battle-Felton 9781250362018 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister traditi...

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Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories Yvette Lisa Ndlovu 9781985900639 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky “Even in death, who has ownership over Black women’s bodies?” ...

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Unraveling

by Karen Lord

Unraveling Karen Lord 9780593598467 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind h...

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Devil Is Fine

by John Vercher

Devil Is Fine John Vercher 9781250894489 Fiction Celadon Books Macmillan Publishers “FULL OF MYSTERY, MAGIC, DARK COMEDY, AND HEART.” —Deesha Philyaw “AN INTIMATE NOVEL, BY TURNS BRACING AND HILARI...

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Ours

by Phillip B. Williams

Ours Phillip B. Williams 9780593654828 Fiction Viking Penguin Random House Chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah’s Book Club, Elle, Reader’s Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millio...

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

by Tananarive Due

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories Tananarive Due 9781636141053 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovat...

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A Strange Loop

by Michael R. Jackson

A Strange Loop Michael R. Jackson 9781559369930 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “To watch this show is to enter, by som...

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Love in the Kingdom of Oil

by Nawal El Saadawi

Love in the Kingdom of Oil Nawal El Saadawi 9780863566264 Fiction Saqi Books Saqi Books A woman disappears without a trace. The police commissioner investigating the case enquires: was she of dubious ...

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Wicker King

by K. Ancrum

Wicker King K. Ancrum 9781250101556 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness. ...

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Friday Black

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 9781328911247 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny…The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has...

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Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir

by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir Yrsa Daley-Ward 9780143132622 Poetry Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award ...

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Dark Days

by James Baldwin

Dark Days James Baldwin 9780241337547 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House “So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.” Drawi...

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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

by Audre Lorde

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Audre Lorde 9780241339725 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House From the self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,&rdqu...

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Freshwater

by Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi 9780802127358 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a...

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New People

by Danzy Senna

New People Danzy Senna 9781594487095 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND TIME MAGAZINENamed A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BYVogue...

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The Queue

by Basma Abdel Aziz

The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 9780993414909 Fiction Melville House Melville House Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes Orwellian dystopia, Ka...

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The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems

by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374147839 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef ...

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Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There

by S. Leigh Savidge

Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There S. Leigh Savidge 9781597884068 Nonfiction Xenon Press Xenon Press “In the wake of Marion ‘Su...

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Time of the Locust: A Novel

by Morowa Yejide

Time of the Locust: A Novel Morowa Yejide 9781476731353 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Travel into the heart and mind of an extraordinary autistic boy in this deeply imaginative debut nove...

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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin)

by Willie Perdomo

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin) Willie Perdomo 9780143125235 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for PoetryThrough dream so...

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The Ground: Poems

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The Ground: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374533847 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voiceA poignant and terse vision of New...

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Zone One: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

Zone One: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780307455178 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted h...

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The Ground: Poems

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The Ground: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374167080 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice A poignant and terse vision of...

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Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE)

by Alain Mabanckou

Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE) Alain Mabanckou 9781593764364 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others w...

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The Starbucks at the End of the World: The 4th Candorville Collection

by Darrin Bell

The Starbucks at the End of the World: The 4th Candorville Collection Darrin Bell 9781548460365 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The fourth collection of the syndicated newspaper comic str...

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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781590173404 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-...

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Ralph Ellison: A Biography

by Arnold Rampersad

Ralph Ellison: A Biography Arnold Rampersad 9780375408274 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the...

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Will You Be Mine?

by Barry Beckham

Will You Be Mine? Barry Beckham 9780931761591 Fiction Beckham Publications Group Beckham Publications Group Distinguished novelist’s stab at presenting a different kind of love story. "I wanted a blac...

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The Wave

by Walter Mosley

The Wave Walter Mosley 9780446533638 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his fatherwho has been dead for se...

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Blood on the Forge

by William Attaway

Blood on the Forge William Attaway 9781590171349 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of...

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Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)

by Henry Dumas

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Nonfiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synth...

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The Water Between Us

by Shara McCallum

The Water Between Us Shara McCallum 9780822957102 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner. The Water Between Us is a poetic examinat...

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Giveadamn Brown: A Novel (Old School Books)

by Robert Deane Pharr

Giveadamn Brown: A Novel (Old School Books) Robert Deane Pharr 9780393315394 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In this surreal dark comedy, Larry "Giveadamn" Brown is transfo...

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Fate

by Ai Ogawa

Fate Ai Ogawa 9780395556375 Poetry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ai’s horrific, surreal vision continues to mature with each book. In the 16 long poems that comprise her fourth c...

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Coagulations: New And Selected Poems

by Jayne Cortez

Coagulations: New And Selected Poems Jayne Cortez 9780938410201 Poetry Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Great collection of Jayne Cortez’s early poetry, from the early 70s to the early 80s....

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