7 Best race books like Remembrance by Rita Woods

Cover of Remembrance by Rita Woods

Remembrance

By: Rita Woods

3.72

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the man…

If you liked the race plot in Remembrance by Rita Woods , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Cane River

By: Lalita Tademy

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Timesbestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four gen… read more

Similar categories in Lalita Tademy's Cane River book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

2. Holy Ghosts: Or, How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night

By: Gary Jansen

4.37

Format: 383 pages, ebook

The extraordinary true story of a Long Island household haunting that forced a respected writer to … read more

Similar categories in Gary Jansen's Holy Ghosts: Or, How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

3. The Veins of the Ocean

By: Patricia Engel

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

"Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She wr… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Engel's The Veins of the Ocean book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

4. Icy Sparks

By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio

3.78

Format: None pages,

Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of E… read more

Similar categories in Gwyn Hyman Rubio's Icy Sparks book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

5. 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 Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • magical realism
  • 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

Cover of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh

6. Unsinkable

By: Jenni L. Walsh

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become… read more

Similar categories in Jenni L. Walsh's Unsinkable book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The American Queen by Vanessa Miller

7. 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 Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston

8. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more

Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Cover of A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira

9. A Wild and Heavenly Place

By: Robin Oliveira

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more

Similar categories in Robin Oliveira's A Wild and Heavenly Place book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé

10. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

Similar categories in Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West

11. Saving Ruby King

By: Catherine Adel West

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in the South Side of Chicago, an epic, enthralling story of a young woman determined to protect… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Adel West's Saving Ruby King book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Just be careful. Our strengths can be our weaknesses, too."

-Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

"Sweetie, there are many things we learn in this world," she says. "Those things can make you hard, but you have a choice to not let it. You don't be the rock. you be the river. You hear me?"

-Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

Cover of The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

12. 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 Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

13. Fruit of the Drunken Tree

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Rojas Contreras's Fruit of the Drunken Tree book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Cover of One Blood by Denene Millner

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 Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of A Woman Of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

15. A Woman Of Endurance

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa … read more

Similar categories in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's A Woman Of Endurance book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hurricane Summer by Asha Ashanti Bromfield

16. Hurricane Summer

By: Asha Ashanti Bromfield

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves… read more

Similar categories in Asha Ashanti Bromfield's Hurricane Summer book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes little girls must become their own heroes."

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"Mom says you get two birthdays. The first one is the day you are born. The second one is the day you leave home and give birth to yourself."

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"When they ask me how I weathered the storm, I will tell them I did not. I was ravished like the zinc houses and devoured like the soil as it swallowed itself whole. I was ruined. I was disaster. I wa…"

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

"We watch as the rain pummels the land, tearing apart houses and sheds and wiping out what has been so perfectly crafted. Objects crash into one another, and there is an evolution to their madness as …"

-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer

Cover of The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

17. The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

4.04

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more

Similar categories in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Thirty Names of Night book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

Cover of Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

18. Masquerade

By: O.O. Sangoyomi

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more

Similar categories in O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Remembrance by Rita Woods

19. Remembrance

By: Rita Woods

3.72

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the man… read more

Similar categories in Rita Woods's Remembrance book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Secrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey James

20. Secrets of Rose Briar Hall

By: Kelsey James

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this Gilded Age gothic homage to “Gaslight” starring Ingrid Bergman, a wealthy young newlywed in… read more

Similar categories in Kelsey James's Secrets of Rose Briar Hall book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Constellations of Scars by Melissa Eskue Ousley

21. Constellations of Scars

By: Melissa Eskue Ousley

3.27

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Not all gifts are a blessing. Some are a curse. When Amelia turned 12, she began growing pearls. E… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Eskue Ousley's Constellations of Scars book and Rita Woods's Remembrance

  • fantasy
  • fiction

14 Top historical fiction books like Remembrance by Rita Woods

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Unsinkable

Jenni L. Walsh

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The American Queen

Vanessa Miller

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

View all the books

26 Best fiction books like Constellations of Scars by Melissa Eskue Ousley

Transform Your Habits

Nailbiter, Vol. 6: The Bloody Truth

Joshua Williamson , Mike Henderson , Adam Guzowski , John J. Hill

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Butter

Erin Jade Lange

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Grip of It

Jac Jemc

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

3.79

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.