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Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Here Comes the Sun

Nicole Dennis-Benn

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ dark emotional sad medium-paced
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

Nikki Giovanni

124 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Dawnie Walton

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction historical emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

239 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan

The Good Turn

Cormac Reilly #3

Dervla McTiernan

10 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Nobody's Magic by Destiny O. Birdsong

Nobody's Magic

Destiny O. Birdsong

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction contemporary literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

The Mountains Sing

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

342 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction historical emotional reflective sad medium-paced
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

410 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

279 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0goodreads_connoisseur's review
fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced