Ishmael Beah
4.01 · 70 ratings
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Yaa Gyasi
4.31 · 127 ratings
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Tan Twan Eng
4.17 · 70 ratings
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Bruno Roubicek
4.40 · 68 ratings
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Richard Heufkens
4.40 · 68 ratings
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Esi Edugyan
3.79 · 67 ratings
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Rūta Razmaitė
4.17 · 57 ratings
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Sofía Segovia
4.26 · 44 ratings
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Maaza Mengiste
3.77 · 40 ratings
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Afia Atakora
3.91 · 35 ratings
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Michael Punke
3.95 · 31 ratings
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Frances Cha
3.76 · 29 ratings
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Alba Cunill Fulquet
4.21 · 28 ratings
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Gabriela Garcia
3.68 · 28 ratings
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Ahmed Saadawi
3.60 · 25 ratings
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Tomasz Jedrowski
4.22 · 25 ratings
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Mary Lynn Bracht
4.33 · 24 ratings
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Christopher Kay
4.13 · 24 ratings
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Robynne Young
3.67 · 24 ratings
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余华
4.33 · 24 ratings
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Тан Тван Энг
4.25 · 24 ratings
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Надя Хашими
4.13 · 24 ratings
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Karan Mahajan
3.54 · 24 ratings
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Melissa Fu
4.17 · 24 ratings
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Deepa Anappara
3.80 · 20 ratings
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Madhuri Vijay
3.85 · 20 ratings
asia · epic · journey · adult · realistic · violent-conflict · female-author · historical-fiction · war · drama · family · spirituality · fiction · humor · female-mc · poc-mc · coming-of-age · politics · grief · south-asia
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Hideo Yokoyama
3.45 · 20 ratings
male-author · noir · police-procedural · realistic · true-crime · drama · book · kidnapping · crime · literary-fiction · poc-author · poc-mc · psychological · fiction · murder · mystery · thriller · genre-crime · suspense · politics
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Ingrid Persaud
4.05 · 20 ratings
grief · adult · journey · realistic · female-author · 21st-century · contemporary · audiobook · drama · lgbtq · literary-fiction · book · family · poc-author · romance · fiction · action-adventure · friendship · poc-mc
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Eric Nguyen
3.75 · 20 ratings
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