6 best-selling race books like Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

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Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• family
• historical fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

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

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Take My Hand book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• race
• historical
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• african american
• audiobook

"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."

-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."

-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."

-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."

-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• family
• historical fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

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• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• race
• historical
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction
• african american
• audiobook

Similar categories in Thao Thai's Banyan Moon book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

Similar categories in Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Similar categories in Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

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

Similar categories in Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

Similar categories in Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

Similar categories in Leila Mottley's Nightcrawling book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• race
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

Similar categories in Jacqueline Crooks's Fire Rush book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• race
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Salma El-Wardany's These Impossible Things book and Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A woman has a way of screaming with her whole body that only other women can hear."

-Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things