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| Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThis long-awaited latest by the author of Americanah centers on four African women in America. Nigerian travel writer Chiamaka isolates alone in the Maryland suburbs during COVID, pondering her exes. Meanwhile her Washington, D.C. lawyer best friend longs for marriage, her practical cousin starts an MBA program, and her beloved housekeeper is sexually assaulted by a powerful man.
Read-alike: Nikki May's This Motherless Land |
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The Proof of My Innocence
by Jonathan Coe
Phyl, a new college grad living back home with her parents, is stuck serving food to at Heathrow's Terminal 5. Her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He's been on the path to uncover a sinister think-tank that's been scheming to push the British government in a more extreme direction. But speaking truth to power can be dangerous - and power will stop at nothing to stay on top...
Read-alike: The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips.
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The Unwanted
by Boris Fishman
Forced to flee their war-torn country, Susanna, George and their daughter Dina embark on a perilous journey through refugee camps and treacherous seas, grappling with sacrifice, betrayal and the desperate fight for survival and dignity.
Read-alike: American Spirits by Russell Banks.
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| Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice FranklinAn undiagnosed neurodivergent girl grows up in southeast England feeling like a misfit. At 12, she learns of the Voynich manuscript, which at least one scholar suggests was made by aliens. Obsessed, she and her only friend sneak off to London to view it, worrying her already mentally fragile mom.
For fans of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness. |
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| Theft by Abdulrazak GurnahThis acclaimed latest from 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah follows three interlinked young people navigating uncertain futures in Tanzania: Karim, whose mother left his abusive father when he was three; beautiful Fauzia, who'd been sick as a child; and Badar, who was sent to work as a servant boy in his uncle's household.
Read alike: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi's Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions. |
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Six Days in Bombay
by Alka Joshi
This sweeping novel follows young Anglo-Indian nurse Sona as she embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover a mystery and prove her innocence after famous painter Mira Novak dies in her care.
For fans of: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See.
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
After a dream-analysis algorithm predicts that she will harm her husband, Sara is detained in a facility with similarly accused women, where she navigates shifting rules until a new arrival leads her to confront the forces controlling her fate.
Read-alikes: The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan or The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings.
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| Twist by Colum McCannIn 2019, off the west coast of Africa, Irish writer Anthony Fennell plans a longform article about the people who mend underwater fiber optic cables to keep the internet going. But there's danger ahead for Fennell, his fellow Irishman captain, and the captain's Black actor girlfriend, who's in England for a job.
Read-alike: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy |
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| Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyOn a remote island between Australia and Antarctica, widowed dad Dominic and his three kids live in an old lighthouse and try to keep a United Nations seed vault safe. During a powerful storm caused by climate change, a mysterious woman washes ashore, changing all of their lives in this suspenseful tale.
Read-alikes: Jessie Greengrass' The High House; Eiren Caffall's All the Water in the World. |
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| The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita MontimoreAn exclusive, secretive boarding school for actors, the Dollhouse Academy has been the home of 34-year-old megastar Ivy Gordon since she was a teen, and she's desperate to leave. New to the academy are Ramona and her best friend Grace, but life there isn't what the girls imagined.
Try this next: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.
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