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Adenrele Ojo narrates Brit Bennett's community-rooted novel with a voice that understands the specificity of place the story requires — her performance gives the Southern California Black church community a sonic texture that prose alone can't fully achieve across 10 hours. The story's slow revelation of consequence works because Ojo's never rushes toward judgment. Two of the recommendations are also by Ojo, and most of the list is among the most highly rated contemporary literary fiction we carry — all of it emotionally driven, all of it about how communities shape and sometimes wound the people inside them.

10 books for fans of The Mothers

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    The Other Side

    by Kim Holden

    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (4.0K ratings)
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    Just Too Good to Be True

    by E. Lynn Harris

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    Carmyn has built a beauty salon empire to support her son's NFL dreams, but success comes with dangerous complications. Harris explores the price of ambition in professional sports with unflinching honesty.

    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (3.5K ratings)
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    The Correspondent

    by Virginia Evans

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    An epistolary novel built from discovered correspondence reveals one woman's journey through decades of artistic ambition, romantic heartbreak, and historical upheaval. Evans explores how letters create intimate connections across time and preserve the fragments that define a life.

    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K ratings)
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    The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give • Book 1

    by Angie Thomas

    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (1.0M ratings)
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    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    by Robert Dugoni

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    Sam Hill's rare condition that gives him red pupils makes him an outcast, but with support from his devout mother, practical father, and two misfit friends, he learns to see differently.

    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (230.8K ratings)
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    The Essential Rumi

    by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, A.J. Arberry, John Moyne

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    Rumi's mystical poetry bridges earthly passion and spiritual transcendence, turning wine, dancing, and romantic yearning into metaphors for divine connection. These translations capture the Persian master's intoxicating blend of sensuality and sacred wisdom.

    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (50.8K ratings)
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    Long Way Gone

    by Charles Martin

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    Cooper O'Connor fled Tennessee for Nashville dreams that died hard — now he must return home to face everything he abandoned, including himself.

    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (20.2K ratings)
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    Say Goodbye for Now

    by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.5K ratings)
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    The Road to Tender Hearts

    by Annie Hartnett

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    PJ Halliday's million-dollar windfall becomes the catalyst for an unlikely road trip featuring two orphaned children, his estranged daughter, and a cat with supernatural abilities.

    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (61.9K ratings)
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    Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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    A physics professor leaves academia to become one of NASA's first female astronauts, trading telescopes for shuttles in pursuit of the cosmos she's studied from afar.

    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K ratings)
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