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by Chester Himes
3.6(1,057)
In a Harlem on the verge of collapse, two seasoned detectives confront a maze of violence and racial tension, where a blind man's shot sparks a city's descent into madness.
by Moni Mohsin
3.4(1,030)
Amidst Pakistan's turbulent news, the charmingly unaware socialite Butterfly navigates high society's parties and mishaps, her biggest worry a chipped manicure rather than a changing world.
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.6(1,024)
A Victorian matriarch, seeking her errant husband in revolutionary Paris, instead finds herself drawn into an intense, chaotic affair with his bohemian mistress.
by Lope de Vega
3.7(1,006)
A fiery countess, caught between pride and passion, struggles with the hilarious and heartbreaking dilemma of loving her clever secretary, who may or may not be a nobleman, in this Golden Age comedy of social climbing and forbidden desire.
by Amulya Malladi
3.8(1,001)
An orphaned eleven-year-old in an Indian epic defies expectations, forming an unconventional family and finding her voice within an ashram through decades of friendship, rivalry, and conviction.
by Jerzy Andrzejewski
3.7(968)
In a provincial Polish hotel in 1945, a young anti-communist assassin struggles with love, duty, and a world ending as a new, uncertain future begins.
by Ama Ata Aidoo
3.8(931)
Sissie, a Ghanaian student in Europe, navigates Western cultures, grappling with identity, belonging, and post-colonial life.
by Jane Gardam
3.6(907)
After his wife's sudden death, a bewildered man must navigate his estranged Northern family when his newborn daughter, Faith, is abandoned by her grandmother.
by Jason Reynolds
4.1(895)
Haunted by the belief he caused his mother's death, Sunny, a track team outcast, finds an unlikely path to self-acceptance by trading his running shoes for the rhythmic, powerful release of the discus throw.
by Parijat
4.2(893)
In 1950s Kathmandu, a young woman's spirit blossoms and fades as she faces societal expectations, forbidden love, and tradition.
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
3.8(844)
Coming out of the forest into a 'new' Kenya, Matigari, the freedom fighter, finds his chains have just been re-forged by the people he fought to free.
by Jean Genet
4.1(836)
After Paris is liberated, a grieving Genet navigates his desires, mourning his Resistance lover while lusting after the Fascist who may have betrayed him, blurring the lines between elegy and macabre obsession.
by Gustave Flaubert
3.7(769)
A young genius's self-proclaimed madness begins when a brief glimpse of a woman by the sea shatters his boyhood innocence, forcing him into a tragic and early adulthood.
by Mark Heyman
4.1(768)
A ballerina's relentless pursuit of perfection for the dual role of the White and Black Swan blurs the line between reality and a terrifying descent into madness.
by Ring Lardner
3.8(760)
Through the self-important letters of a talented but unperceptive baseball pitcher, Ring Lardner writes a lasting and sharp satire on ego, ambition, and the human inability to learn from mistakes.
by Dirk Wittenborn
4.0(758)
Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl discovers the most dangerous jungle isn't in National Geographic, but within the opulent, savage society of Vlyvalle, New Jersey, where he and his mother must battle for their survival.
by Cyprian Ekwensi
3.8(756)
In 1960s Lagos, Jagua Nana, an older woman with a strong personality, deals with a life of pleasure, shady politics, and personal drama, making her own way in a city of hustlers.
by Amruta Patil
3.8(746)
Haunted by a shared past and a friend lost to the void, Kari navigates the surreal, sewage-laced underbelly of Smog City as an ad copywriter and PVC-clad sewer superhero, observing life's absurdities and longing for her absentee other.
by Marcia Willett
3.8(731)
In a quiet Devon village, a woman's annual retreat turns into a storm of rekindled love, old secrets, and a painful reckoning with a past that threatens to unravel the lives of everyone she holds dear.
by Sarah Schulman
3.8(713)
In 1990s New York City, a rat exterminator, a plant-waterer, and an HIV-positive writer form a queer family, facing societal indifference and loss with honesty and wit.
by Walter Horatio Pater
3.5(703)
In ancient Rome, a sensitive young man's search for beauty and meaning leads him through pagan rituals, philosophy, and the early stirrings of Christianity, as he strives for a life lived deeply and with refined taste.
by Rachael English
4.1(692)
A podcaster uncovers the four-decade-old mystery of a vanished all-female Irish rock band, forcing its former lead singer to face the secret that shattered their dreams just before stardom.
by Paul Negri
3.9(643)
This anthology traces the American short story from Hawthorne's Puritan allegory to Hemingway's stark realism, covering a century of literary titans grappling with morality, identity, and the human condition.
by W.B. Yeats
4.1(628)
Yeats's 1928 collection, "The Tower," now in a new edition, explores the poet's mature work, from the spiritual quest of 'Sailing to Byzantium' to the power of 'Leda and the Swan,' as he considers age, history, and artistic lastingness.