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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Black Authors

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Total Books Recommended: 207

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 110
Historical Fiction - 47
Thrillers - 11
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Short Stories - 24
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Debuts - 86
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Uplifting - 5
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Generational Sagas - 45
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 11
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Mid-Life Onwards - 9
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Books in Translation - 5
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Black Authors - 207
Latinx Authors - 2
Jewish Authors - 1
Native and Indigenous Authors - 1

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Female Friendships - 19
Strong Women - 66
LGBTQ+ - 21

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Philosophical - 4
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Magical or Supernatural - 24
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Small Press Titles - 18
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400+ Pages - 16
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17th Century or Earlier - 4
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New England, USA - 7
Mid-Atlantic, USA - 30
South, USA - 47
Midwest, USA - 8
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UK (Britain) & Ireland - 17
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East Asia (except China) - 2
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Africa by Region
Eastern Africa - 14
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Northern & Western Africa - 29

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  • The Rest of You
    Maame Blue
    Paperback: 10/08/2024
     
    An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story...
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    Rivers Solomon
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
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    Afabwaje Kurian
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the...
  • The Reformatory
    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • Beyond the Door of No Return
    David Diop
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
  • Sky Full of Elephants
    Cebo Campbell
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
  • Let Us Descend
    Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress ...

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