6 Best fiction books like Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston

Cover of Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston

Every Tongue Got to Confess

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hur…

If you liked the fiction plot in Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

1. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • race
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2. Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The … read more

Similar categories in James McBride's Five-Carat Soul book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • short stories
  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

3. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • classics
  • race
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4. Roots: The Saga of an American Family

By: Alex Haley

3.33

Format: None pages,

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about th… read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • classics
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american

5. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

By: Daniel José Older , Edwidge Danticat , Jesmyn Ward , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Claudia Rankine , Kevin Young , Carol Anderson , Isabel Wilkerson , Mitchell S. Jackson , Kiese Laymon , Natasha Trethewey , Clint Smith , None , Garnette Cadogan , None , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more

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6. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

By: Annie Dillard

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more

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7. Tar Baby

By: Toni Morrison

4.22

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more

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8. Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth , None

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, pr… read more

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9. Black No More

By: George S. Schuyler

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … read more

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10. At the Bottom of the River

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.29

Format: 368 pages,

Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, int… read more

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11. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By: Charles E. Cobb Jr.

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist Will… read more

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12. Clementine (Clementine, #1)

By: Sara Pennypacker , Marla Frazee

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Clementine is having not so good of a week. -On Monday she's sent to the principal's office for cut… read more

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13. How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's How Long 'til Black Future Month? book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • fiction
  • race
  • short stories
"Still. Marching."

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"I’ll take the dreams,"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"I need to talk to you,"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Cover of Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

14. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Jessica McDiarmid

4.30

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more

Similar categories in Jessica McDiarmid's Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • race
Cover of Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele

15. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • short stories
  • fiction
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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16. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • race
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

Cover of The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose by Oprah Winfrey

17. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

By: Oprah Winfrey

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as… read more

Similar categories in Oprah Winfrey's The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you hom…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with o…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Your life is always speaking to you in whispers, guiding you to your next right step. And in many situations, the whisper is also the first warning. It’s a quiet nudge from deep within saying, Hmmm, …"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

Cover of Summer on the Bluffs (Oak Bluffs #1) by Sunny Hostin

18. Summer on the Bluffs (Oak Bluffs #1)

By: Sunny Hostin

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

View cohost Sunny Hostin makes her literary debut with this dazzling novel about a life-changing su… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Hostin's Summer on the Bluffs (Oak Bluffs #1) book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • african american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Ejeris Dixon

19. Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

By: Ejeris Dixon

4.54

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Afraid to call 911 but not sure what to do instead? Transformative justice and other community-base… read more

Similar categories in Ejeris Dixon's Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • race
"I know for a fact that we can't heal or hurt alone. We must heal or hurt in relationship with other people. (Mariame Kaba)"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"When we define ourselves, the result is complexity. We are none of us one thing, neither good nor bad. We are complex surviving organisms. We do appalling things to each other, rooted in trauma. We s…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

"First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move av…"

-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Cover of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

20. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Strings's Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • race
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Cover of Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston

21. Every Tongue Got to Confess

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hur… read more

Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess book and Zora Neale Hurston's Every Tongue Got to Confess

  • classics
  • race
  • historical
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • folk tales
  • african american
  • mythology

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Brittney Cooper

4.43

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3.54

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Alex Haley

3.33

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N.K. Jemisin

4.28

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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4.80

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