Books about Black History

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Jewish fiction

Surprise ending

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Heartbreaking

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Ghost story

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Similar Novels 92%

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead

Similar Novels 84%

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Similar Novels 90%

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Similar Novels 94%

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander

Similar Novels 90%

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Similar Novels 92%

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Similar Novels 90%

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis

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Native Son
Richard Wright

Similar Novels 80%

Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson

Similar Novels 92%

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor

Similar Novels 86%

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Similar Novels 88%

The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

Similar Novels 84%

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

Similar Novels 92%

The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois

Similar Novels 86%

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin

Similar Novels 90%

Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes

Similar Novels 78%

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley

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The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

Similar Novels 98%

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass

Similar Novels 94%

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