Redemption in Indigo

10 best books like Redemption in Indigo (Karen Lord): Who Fears Death, The Future of Another Timeline, Sorcerer to the Crown, Storm of Locusts, Brown Girl in the Ring, In the Vanishers’ Palace, Throne of the Crescent Moon, The Salt Roads, A Stranger in Olondria, The Black God's Drums

Who Fears Death
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa.

In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate...
The Future of Another Timeline
AuthorAnnalee Newitz
ISBN0765392127
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...
Sorcerer to the Crown
AuthorZen Cho
ISBN0425283372
Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.

At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers—one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain—ventures...
Storm of Locusts
AuthorRebecca Roanhorse
ISBN1534413529
It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange...
Brown Girl in the Ring
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446674338
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman...
In the Vanishers’ Palace
AuthorAliette de Bodard
In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land...

A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind,...
Throne of the Crescent Moon
AuthorSaladin Ahmed
ISBN0756407117
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes...
The Salt Roads
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446677132
A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet...
A Stranger in Olondria
AuthorSofia Samatar
ISBN1931520763
Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels...
The Black God's Drums
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
Midnight Robber
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446675601
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It's Carnival time, and the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the...
Beka Lamb
AuthorZee Edgell
ISBN0435988441
After booking a trip to Belize, the search for Belizean authors was on. Once I learned about Zee Edgall, I knew it was her novels that would accompany me on my trip. I decided to read the books chronologically, so first up was Beka Lamb. I usually have a terrible time with coming-of-age stories. Perhaps...
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446576913
THE NEW MOON'S ARMS is a mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity, has renamed herself in a way she feels is most fitting. She's a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has...
The True Queen
AuthorZen Cho
In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae.

When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda...
Sister Mine
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446576921
Nalo Hopkinson--winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our "most inventive and brilliant writers" (New York Post)--returns with a new work. With her singular voice and characteristic sharp insight, she explores the...
Kabu Kabu
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations. This debut short story collection by award-winning author Nnedi...
On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America
AuthorDeRay Mckesson
ISBN1786076519
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Daughters of Nri
AuthorReni K Amayo
ISBN1916042910
A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, separated at birth. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. Daughters Of Nri explores their epic journey of self-discovery as they embark on a path back to one another.

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