17 Top fiction books like I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Annell López

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I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

By: Annell López

4.41

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This shimmering debut short story collection intimately explores race, identity, and the pursuit of…

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1. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's We the Animals book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

2. 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

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

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3. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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4. Soy una tonta por quererte

By: Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En plena decada de los años 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En… read more

Similar categories in Camila Sosa Villada's Soy una tonta por quererte book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

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5. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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6. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's Pink Slime book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • fiction
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7. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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8. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. Where There Was Fire

By: John Manuel Arias

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from risi… read more

Similar categories in John Manuel Arias's Where There Was Fire book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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10. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Skin & Bones book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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11. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

Similar categories in Gina María Balibrera's The Volcano Daughters book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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12. The Waves Take You Home

By: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

3.96

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more

Similar categories in María Alejandra Barrios Vélez's The Waves Take You Home book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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13. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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14. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

Similar categories in 'Pemi Aguda's Ghostroots: Stories book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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16. Concerning the Future of Souls

By: Joy Williams

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR“Williams is a writer for our b… read more

Similar categories in Joy Williams's Concerning the Future of Souls book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Annell López

18. I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

By: Annell López

4.41

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This shimmering debut short story collection intimately explores race, identity, and the pursuit of… read more

Similar categories in Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

19. Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women a… read more

Similar categories in Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

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20. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's A Reason to See You Again book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Annell López's I'll Give You a Reason: Stories

"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

11 Top adult fiction books like I'll Give You a Reason: Stories by Annell López

Transform Your Habits

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

3.68

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The Mother Act

Heidi Reimer

4.18

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Where There Was Fire

John Manuel Arias

3.49

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Skin & Bones

Renée Watson

4.39

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16 best-selling fiction books like Soy una tonta por quererte by Camila Sosa Villada

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Las primas

Aurora Venturini

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

Salomé Esper

3.89

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