6 must-read race books like Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner

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Child Bride

By: Jennifer Smith Turner

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embr…

If you liked the race plot in Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Perfect Peace

By: Daniel Black

4.32

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Black's Perfect Peace book and Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you"

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

"Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you."

-Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

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2. Fifth Born

By: Zelda Lockhart

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Odessa Blackburn is three years old her beloved grandmother dies, and so begins her story, set… read more

Similar categories in Zelda Lockhart's Fifth Born book and Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • race
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. And Then There Was Me

By: Sadeqa Johnson

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self acros… read more

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  • fiction

4. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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5. Black Girl Lost

By: Donald Goines

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet o… read more

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6. This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2)

By: Bernice L. McFadden

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she'd come to break… read more

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7. The Darkest Child

By: Delores Phillips

3.97

Format: None pages,

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8. Love, Honor, Betray (Lexington, Alabama #3)

By: Mary Monroe

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers the latest thrillingly scandal… read more

Similar categories in Mary Monroe's Love, Honor, Betray (Lexington, Alabama #3) book and Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • romance
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Coconut

By: Florence Olajide

4.36

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the '50s and '60s, privately fostered by … read more

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10. Double Lives

By: Mary Monroe

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of … read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is a gift. You need to live."

-Mary Monroe, Double Lives

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11. Holding

By: Alexandria House

4.11

Format: None pages, ebook

Childhood neighbors, enemies, best friends, lovers, enemies, Sires lineman Terrence Ford and his ex… read more

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  • romance
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12. 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 Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • race
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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13. Yellow Wife

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman … read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's Yellow Wife book and Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • race
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection)

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.22

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgm… read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

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  • historical fiction
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16. Tobacco Rose

By: Florence Love Karsner

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more

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  • historical fiction
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17. Colors of Truth

By: Paula Paul

4.39

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Colors of Truth follows the stories of Caroline and Pearlie, two teenage girls growing up in Texas … read more

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18. The Girl In The Brothel: A Story Of Love And Redemption

By: Mina Ray

3.50

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Krishnaa is born in a poor farmer's house and abandoned at a brothel as an infant. As she enters he… read more

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19. Pia: The Inspirational Journey Of An Indian Bride - An Incredible Story of Love, Pain, and Passion

By: Pia Panchal

3.77

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

When Pia is married into a wealthy family, at a young age, she quickly learns that the only way to … read more

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Cover of Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1) by Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

20. Darkness: A Slave's Story (The Darkness Saga Book 1)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.37

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and … read more

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21. Doris: The Struggles of a Former Slave (The Darkness Saga Book 2)

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.46

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of A Slave’s Story comes the continuing saga of Darkness Knox. After she obtained … read more

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22. My Name Is Ona Judge

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge,and I escaped from the household of the President of the… read more

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  • race
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If freedom ever knocks on your door same as it did for Mathilda and Noble... open it !"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

"Finding Miss Ona's journal and reading her story was a lesson in dignity. She'd been a person owned by other persons. Yet when faced with the reality of being "gifted" to yet another master, she knew…"

-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge

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23. The Girl at the Back of the Bus

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.43

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the bus with her clear, calm “no” and I thought a… read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Dust Bowl Orphans

By: Suzette D. Harrison

4.33

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my bab… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

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  • romance
  • race
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
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26. Sisters

By: Michael Edwin Q.

4.24

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

All her life, Winnie passed for White, using it to her advantage, and climbing the social ladder. W… read more

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Cover of Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner

27. Child Bride

By: Jennifer Smith Turner

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride book and Jennifer Smith Turner's Child Bride

  • romance
  • race
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
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28. Clara's Curse

By: Tara L. Thompson

4.49

Format: 213 pages, ebook

ClaRina Kendall Faulk, eldest of the Kendall sisters, has always been the reliable one. Blessed wit… read more

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Cover of Mahala: The Darkness Saga by Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

29. Mahala: The Darkness Saga

By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson

4.45

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

the Darkness Saga is the prequel to A Slave's Story and the sixth book in that series. The latest… read more

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Cover of Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus, #5) by Laila Ibrahim

30. Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus, #5)

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.16

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

As America enters WWII, two women on the home front strive to stay strong in a heartfelt novel abou… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. And So I Roar

By: Abi Daré

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl w… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15 must-read fiction books like Child Bride by Jennifer Smith Turner

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Perfect Peace

Daniel Black

4.32

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Fifth Born

Zelda Lockhart

3.57

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And Then There Was Me

Sadeqa Johnson

3.70

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Love, Honor, Betray (Lexington, Alabama #3)

Mary Monroe

4.14

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Release Me If You Can

Christina C. Jones

3.02

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Strictly Professional

Christina C. Jones

4.48

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Somebody's Wife

Robbi Renee

4.39

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Holding

Alexandria House

4.11

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