11 Top fiction books like You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

By: Alice Walker

4.01

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

In Alice Walker’s second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis This …

"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."

-Alice Walker, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."

-Alice Walker, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

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Cover of Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1) by Lawrence Durrell

1. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

By: Lawrence Durrell

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Durrell's Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1) book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."

-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

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2. The Last Resort

By: Alison Lurie

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Like a loyal Victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous write… read more

Similar categories in Alison Lurie's The Last Resort book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • fiction
"Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchas…"

-Alison Lurie, The Last Resort

"Having a chronic illness, Molly thought, was like being invaded. Her grandmother back in Michigan used to tell about the day one of their cows got loose and wandered into the parlor, and the awful ti…"

-Alison Lurie, The Last Resort

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3. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

By: Maya Angelou

4.23

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Maya Angelou's first poetry collection is vintage Angelou, full of love and rage, warmth and vitali… read more

Similar categories in Maya Angelou's Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • classics
  • race
  • literature
  • feminism
  • african american
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4. Mama Day

By: Gloria Naylor

3.71

Format: 101 pages,

A fascinating novel that reworks elements of Shakespeare's The Tempest. On the island of Willow Spr… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • feminism
  • classics
  • african american
  • fiction
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5. Penmarric

By: Susan Howatch

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga … read more

Similar categories in Susan Howatch's Penmarric book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • fiction

6. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

By: Douglas Coupland

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brough… read more

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7. The Farming of Bones

By: Edwidge Danticat

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more

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8. Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

By: John Waters

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

This hilarious collection of essays by the offbeat writer and director is a treat for fans of the "… read more

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9. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

By: Maggie Nelson

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more

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10. The Short Stories

By: Langston Hughes , Arnold Rampersad , Akiba Sullivan Harper

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 an… read more

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11. Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

4.24

Format: 128 pages,

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more

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12. The Colossus of New York

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

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13. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • feminism
  • womens
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14. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

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15. The Last Bathing Beauty

By: Amy Sue Nathan

3.91

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A former beauty queen faces the secrets of her past—for herself and the sake of her family’s future… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • fiction
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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18. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • fiction
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19. The Other Princess

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more

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  • fiction
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20. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

By: Alice Walker

4.01

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

In Alice Walker’s second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis This … read more

Similar categories in Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • african american literature
  • classics
  • race
  • american
  • literature
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • womens
  • african american
"Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat."

-Alice Walker, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

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21. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Alice Walker's You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

  • fiction

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