16 Top historical books like Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

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Night Wherever We Go

By: Tracey Rose Peyton

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library …

If you liked the historical plot in Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

1. 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 Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • 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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2. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more

Similar categories in Monica Brashears's House of Cotton book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Time's Undoing

By: Cheryl A. Head

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murd… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl A. Head's Time's Undoing book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Miller's The American Queen book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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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7. River Sing Me Home

By: Eleanor Shearer

4.01

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Shearer's River Sing Me Home book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every freedom had its price."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"Freedom mean something different to me. The search, that is freedom."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"This is why me don't like to do it... Think about the past. The memories too painful. The hope hurt. All I want to do is live the life in front of me, because it's a miracle me make it here."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

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8. Maame

By: Jessica George

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • 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

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9. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. Stealing

By: Margaret Verble

4.04

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Verble's Stealing book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

12. Night Wherever We Go

By: Tracey Rose Peyton

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more

Similar categories in Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

15. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Jiménez's What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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16. Decent People

By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more

Similar categories in De'Shawn Charles Winslow's Decent People book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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17. Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more

Similar categories in Jamila Minnicks's Moonrise Over New Jessup book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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18. Wade in the Water

By: Nyani Nkrumah

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this ri… read more

Similar categories in Nyani Nkrumah's Wade in the Water book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The Love You Save: A Memoir by Goldie Taylor

19. The Love You Save: A Memoir

By: Goldie Taylor

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more

Similar categories in Goldie Taylor's The Love You Save: A Memoir book and Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • race
  • african american
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Cheryl A. Head

4.03

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4.14

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3.72

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S.A. Cosby

4.00

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