However Long the Night, the Dawn Will Break: Forthcoming Books for 2014 by Authors of African Descent

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Ruby
Ruby 3.65 avg rating β€” 15,144 ratings
2.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating β€” 30,810 ratings
3.
An Untamed State
An Untamed State 4.07 avg rating β€” 19,599 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating β€” 91,855 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,751 ratings
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The Orchard of Lost Souls
The Orchard of Lost Souls 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,815 ratings
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Radiance of Tomorrow
Radiance of Tomorrow 3.86 avg rating β€” 4,673 ratings
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Forty Acres
Forty Acres 3.93 avg rating β€” 4,193 ratings
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating β€” 37,300 ratings
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Dust
Dust 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,667 ratings
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'Til the Well Runs Dry
'Til the Well Runs Dry 3.88 avg rating β€” 2,570 ratings
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Land of Love and Drowning
Land of Love and Drowning 3.37 avg rating β€” 5,306 ratings
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Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore 3.53 avg rating β€” 2,365 ratings
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All Our Names
All Our Names 3.61 avg rating β€” 4,890 ratings
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Queen Sugar
Queen Sugar 3.79 avg rating β€” 9,579 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 317,117 ratings
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Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,824 ratings
18.
The Secret History of Las Vegas
The Secret History of Las Vegas 3.49 avg rating β€” 1,147 ratings
19.
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs 3.77 avg rating β€” 737 ratings
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Lagoon
Lagoon 3.63 avg rating β€” 8,982 ratings
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The Secret of Magic
The Secret of Magic 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,483 ratings
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Saint Monkey
Saint Monkey 3.65 avg rating β€” 494 ratings
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Time of the Locust
Time of the Locust 3.83 avg rating β€” 179 ratings
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A Life Apart
A Life Apart 3.75 avg rating β€” 278 ratings
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Citizens Creek
Citizens Creek 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,349 ratings
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Into the Go-Slow
Into the Go-Slow 3.74 avg rating β€” 225 ratings
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Children of Paradise
Children of Paradise 3.44 avg rating β€” 327 ratings
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Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith 3.84 avg rating β€” 485 ratings
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Red Now and Laters
Red Now and Laters 3.77 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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Song of the Shank
Song of the Shank 3.07 avg rating β€” 269 ratings
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Remedy for a Broken Angel
Remedy for a Broken Angel 4.52 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Back Channel
Back Channel 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,006 ratings
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Angels Make Their Hope Here
Angels Make Their Hope Here 3.40 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
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Book of Hours: Poems
Book of Hours: Poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
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Now We Will Be Happy
Now We Will Be Happy 3.97 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)
The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5) 4.01 avg rating β€” 6,758 ratings
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Abengoni: First Calling
Abengoni: First Calling 4.15 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
38.
The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician
The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician 3.49 avg rating β€” 222 ratings
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Foreign Gods, Inc.
Foreign Gods, Inc. 3.45 avg rating β€” 1,446 ratings
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Delilah's Daughters
Delilah's Daughters 4.04 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
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The Fall of Saints
The Fall of Saints 2.72 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death 3.39 avg rating β€” 3,323 ratings
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Drifting
Drifting 3.78 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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Difficult Fruit
Difficult Fruit 4.43 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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The Love Project: A Marriage Made in Poetry
The Love Project: A Marriage Made in Poetry 3.62 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Team Seven
Team Seven 3.63 avg rating β€” 190 ratings
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Murder at Cape Three Points (Darko Dawson #3)
Murder at Cape Three Points (Darko Dawson #3) 3.78 avg rating β€” 1,072 ratings
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The Last Gift
The Last Gift 3.78 avg rating β€” 2,566 ratings
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Endangered
Endangered 3.50 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Every Day is for the Thief
Every Day is for the Thief
by: Teju Cole
3.69 avg rating β€” 7,750 ratings
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Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13)
Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13) 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,814 ratings
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The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel 3.71 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Land of Shadows (Detective Elouise Norton, #1)
Land of Shadows (Detective Elouise Norton, #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 2,712 ratings
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight 2.89 avg rating β€” 683 ratings
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The Galaxy Game
The Galaxy Game 3.09 avg rating β€” 931 ratings
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NeveryΓ³na: Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities
NeveryΓ³na: Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities 4.02 avg rating β€” 667 ratings
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Sleeper Hold
Sleeper Hold 4.27 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean 3.45 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
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The Way Home
The Way Home it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Mrs. B
Mrs. B 3.58 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays
Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays 4.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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The Wonder of All Things
The Wonder of All Things 3.44 avg rating β€” 3,960 ratings
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Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011
Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011 3.48 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life 4.25 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
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Nigerians in Space (Nigerians in Space, #1)
Nigerians in Space (Nigerians in Space, #1) 3.44 avg rating β€” 452 ratings
66.
Monk Eats an Afro
Monk Eats an Afro 4.40 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
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Zero to Three: Poems
Zero to Three: Poems 4.26 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion 4.15 avg rating β€” 774 ratings
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Intimacy and Other Plays
Intimacy and Other Plays 3.38 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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Quiver of the Pure Heart
Quiver of the Pure Heart really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Six Stories and An Essay
Six Stories and An Essay 4.04 avg rating β€” 444 ratings
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Dark Paradise (Dark Paradise #1)
Dark Paradise (Dark Paradise #1) 3.80 avg rating β€” 240 ratings
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Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin
Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin 4.08 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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The Runaway Slave Returns
The Runaway Slave Returns 3.91 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Changa's Safari Volume Three
Changa's Safari Volume Three 4.81 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Recurrence Plot: And Other Time Travel Tales
Recurrence Plot: And Other Time Travel Tales 3.86 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Belle City
Belle City 4.19 avg rating β€” 26 ratings