Whoever Wants Honey Must Brave the Bees: Forthcoming Books for 2017 by Authors of African Descent

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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 145,364 ratings
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Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1)
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1) 3.61 avg rating β€” 2,828 ratings
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The Idea of You
The Idea of You 3.74 avg rating β€” 168,430 ratings
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating β€” 30,034 ratings
5.
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,402 ratings
6.
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) 3.84 avg rating β€” 29,001 ratings
7.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,580 ratings
8.
No One Is Coming to Save Us
No One Is Coming to Save Us 3.02 avg rating β€” 6,406 ratings
9.
A Kind of Freedom
A Kind of Freedom 3.79 avg rating β€” 5,836 ratings
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The Wide Circumference of Love
The Wide Circumference of Love 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,857 ratings
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And Then There Was Me
And Then There Was Me 3.59 avg rating β€” 2,236 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Unkindness of Ghosts 3.96 avg rating β€” 21,199 ratings
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Magic City Gospel
Magic City Gospel 4.51 avg rating β€” 198 ratings
14.
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky 4.09 avg rating β€” 16,028 ratings
15.
City of Saviors (Detective Elouise Norton, #4)
City of Saviors (Detective Elouise Norton, #4) 4.05 avg rating β€” 922 ratings
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The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) 4.34 avg rating β€” 159,386 ratings
17.
Seeking Sarah
Seeking Sarah 3.83 avg rating β€” 788 ratings
18.
The Changeling
The Changeling 3.77 avg rating β€” 26,916 ratings
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncΓ©
There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncΓ© really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,687 ratings
20.
New People
New People 3.25 avg rating β€” 6,908 ratings
21.
What We Lose
What We Lose 3.60 avg rating β€” 14,100 ratings
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Dance of the Jakaranda
Dance of the Jakaranda 3.69 avg rating β€” 945 ratings
23.
Testify
Testify 4.63 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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Halsey Street
Halsey Street 3.54 avg rating β€” 7,860 ratings
25.
The Talented Ribkins
The Talented Ribkins 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,723 ratings
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So Much Blue
So Much Blue 4.02 avg rating β€” 3,611 ratings
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Late Arcade
Late Arcade 4.14 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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And So On
And So On 4.60 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Death in D Minor (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #2)
Death in D Minor (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #2) 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,406 ratings
30.
Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir)
Atlanta Noir (Akashic Noir) 3.54 avg rating β€” 401 ratings
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Buffalo Soldier
Buffalo Soldier 3.54 avg rating β€” 549 ratings
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The Woman Next Door
The Woman Next Door 3.61 avg rating β€” 4,704 ratings
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Amiable with Big Teeth
Amiable with Big Teeth 3.61 avg rating β€” 332 ratings
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Period Pain
Period Pain 3.83 avg rating β€” 2,753 ratings
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Washington Black
Washington Black 3.95 avg rating β€” 70,649 ratings
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Five-Carat Soul
Five-Carat Soul 4.02 avg rating β€” 5,123 ratings
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All Things Violent
All Things Violent 4.11 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water
The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water 4.46 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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Welcome to Lagos
Welcome to Lagos 3.78 avg rating β€” 4,030 ratings
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The January Children
The January Children 4.52 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
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The Through
The Through 4.32 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Wandering Feet on Pebbled Shores
Wandering Feet on Pebbled Shores 4.70 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Your Family, Your Body
Your Family, Your Body 4.10 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
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Twelve Days
Twelve Days 3.55 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
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Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall 3.56 avg rating β€” 389 ratings
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Roads, Where There Are No Roads: A Novel
Roads, Where There Are No Roads: A Novel 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Cold Flash (The Muriel Mabley Series)
Cold Flash (The Muriel Mabley Series) 3.76 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons
Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons 3.82 avg rating β€” 357 ratings
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The Prey of Gods
The Prey of Gods 3.76 avg rating β€” 3,811 ratings
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The Voices of Martyrs
The Voices of Martyrs really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
51.
Getting It Right
Getting It Right 4.02 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
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Passage
Passage 3.69 avg rating β€” 144 ratings
53.
To Funk and Die in LA
To Funk and Die in LA 3.65 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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As Lie Is to Grin
As Lie Is to Grin 3.33 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
55.
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
by: Aja Monet
4.29 avg rating β€” 788 ratings
56.
Simulacra (Volume 111) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Simulacra (Volume 111) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) 4.26 avg rating β€” 229 ratings
57.
Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose
Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,967 ratings
58.
Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.31 avg rating β€” 308 ratings
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Rummage
Rummage 3.91 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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Augustown
Augustown 4.30 avg rating β€” 3,841 ratings
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Foreign Soil: And Other Stories
Foreign Soil: And Other Stories 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,344 ratings
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Black Moses
Black Moses 3.43 avg rating β€” 2,186 ratings
63.
Death by His Grace (Darko Dawson #5)
Death by His Grace (Darko Dawson #5) 3.71 avg rating β€” 582 ratings
64.
The Lazarus Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
The Lazarus Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Language We Cry In
The Language We Cry In 4.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Pecking Order
Pecking Order 4.56 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead 3.49 avg rating β€” 463 ratings
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No Dictionary of a Living Tongue
No Dictionary of a Living Tongue 4.35 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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Sycorax's Daughters
Sycorax's Daughters 4.06 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
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Silencer
Silencer 4.07 avg rating β€” 348 ratings
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Vintage Sadness
Vintage Sadness 4.58 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems 4.14 avg rating β€” 235 ratings
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Weary Kingdom: Poems (Palmetto Poetry Series)
Weary Kingdom: Poems (Palmetto Poetry Series) 4.41 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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A Negro and an Ofay
A Negro and an Ofay 4.24 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
75.
The Tragedy of Brady Sims
The Tragedy of Brady Sims 3.84 avg rating β€” 970 ratings