10 must-read fiction books like The Last of the Ofos (Volume 39) (Sun Tracks) by Geary Hobson

Cover of The Last of the Ofos (Volume 39) (Sun Tracks) by Geary Hobson

The Last of the Ofos (Volume 39) (Sun Tracks)

By: Geary Hobson

3.98

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Thomas Darko is a Mohican for the twentieth century, the last surviving member of the tiny Mosopele…

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1. Annie John

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more

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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"

-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

Cover of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa

2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

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3. Uncle Tom's Children

By: Richard Wright , Richard Yarborough

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of … read more

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4. The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros

3.31

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more

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5. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

By: Sherman Alexie , Ellen Forney

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the… read more

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7. A Mercy

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages,

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more

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8. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

By: Harry Crews , Michael McCurdy

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Hardcover

A Childhoodis the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrai… read more

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9. Killers of the Dream

By: Lillian E. Smith , None

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our… read more

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10. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

12. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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13. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

14. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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15. Salvage the Bones

By: Jesmyn Ward

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more

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16. Monkey Bridge

By: Lan Cao

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridgecharts the unmapped terr… read more

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17. Briar Rose

By: Jane Yolen

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beautythat is "heartbreaking and heartwarming." An American Librar… read more

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Cover of The Last of the Ofos (Volume 39) (Sun Tracks) by Geary Hobson

18. The Last of the Ofos (Volume 39) (Sun Tracks)

By: Geary Hobson

3.98

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Thomas Darko is a Mohican for the twentieth century, the last surviving member of the tiny Mosopele… read more

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Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

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James Baldwin

4.30

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4.43

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