8 Best novels books like Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote

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Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t…

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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3. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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4. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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7. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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8. Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more

Similar categories in Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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9. Perish

By: LaToya Watkins

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Perish book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"

-LaToya Watkins, Perish

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10. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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11. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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12. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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14. The American Daughters

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Carlos Ruffin's The American Daughters book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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15. One Blood

By: Denene Millner

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets … read more

Similar categories in Denene Millner's One Blood book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook
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16. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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17. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Dey's Daughter book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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18. A Quitter's Paradise

By: Elysha Chang

2.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this novel by Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to avoid the reality of her mo… read more

Similar categories in Elysha Chang's A Quitter's Paradise book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will eve… read more

Similar categories in Angela Jackson-Brown's Homeward book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Trinity

By: Zelda Lockhart

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as movi… read more

Similar categories in Zelda Lockhart's Trinity book and Kim Coleman Foote's Coleman Hill

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • african american
  • audiobook

20 Best fiction books like Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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17 Best fiction books like Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins

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The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

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Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Tommy Orange

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