6 must-read literature books like Love by Toni Morrison

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Love

By: Toni Morrison

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an…

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Cover of Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

1. Just Above My Head

By: James Baldwin

4.43

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” ( The N… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • african american
"The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation."

-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

"Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen."

-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud."

-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

"For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure’s inventions are soon exhausted. There must be a soul within the body you are holding, a soul which you a…"

-James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

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2. Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White, #4)

By: Barbara Neely

4.21

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche Whit… read more

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  • novels
  • african american
  • fiction
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3. As for Me and My House

By: Sinclair Ross

3.49

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses ag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn’t that way."

-Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House

"His eyes were narrowed as he spoke, bitten a little with perplexity at the uselessness of being right against the world."

-Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House

"It's like being lost, and coming on an old wagon trail. You don't know where it leads, how long or why it's been abandoned, but at least it's a trail."

-Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House

"Religion and art [...] are almost the same thing anyway. Just different ways of taking a man out of himself, bringing him to the emotional pitch that we can ecstasy or rapture."

-Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House

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4. The Children

By: Lucy Kirkwood

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • fiction
Cover of Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts

5. Our Nig

By: Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of t… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • african american
  • fiction
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6. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • african american
Cover of Once Upon the River Love by Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan

7. Once Upon the River Love

By: Andreï Makine , Geoffrey Strachan

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Readers of Andrei Makine's previous novel, Dreams of My Russian Summers, will recognize similar the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Love by Toni Morrison

8. Love

By: Toni Morrison

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an… read more

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Love book and Toni Morrison's Love

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • african american
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9. The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

By: Alice Walker

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'These are the stories that came to me to be told after hte close of a magical marriage to an extra… read more

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  • african american
  • fiction
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10. The Radiance of the King

By: James Kirkup , Camara Laye

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwre… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

By: bell hooks

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual be… read more

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  • african american

12. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (Blanche White series Book 2)

By: Barbara Neely

3.86

Format: None pages,

"Endlessly Entertaining!" Publishers Weekly BLANCHE AND THE TALENTED TENTH The second, ground-break… read more

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13. The January Children

By: Kwame Dawes , Safia Elhillo

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan unde… read more

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14. The Temple of My Familiar

By: Alice Walker

4.02

Format: 293 pages,

A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tap… read more

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15. By The Light Of My Father's Smile

By: Alice Walker

3.85

Format: 144 pages,

All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. … read more

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16. God Don't Make No Mistakes (God Don't Like Ugly, #6)

By: Mary Monroe

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

In the sparkling conclusion to Mary Monroe's bestselling God series, two forever friends face their… read more

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17. Beside the Sea

By: Adriana Hunter , Véronique Olmi

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocol… read more

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18. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • african american
  • fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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19. Weeds

By: Amanda Wilkin

2.98

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Sometimes sowing the seeds of change means getting your hands dirty. Climate activist Shirley Wa… read more

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Cover of சிவப்புக் கழுத்துடன் ஒரு பச்சைப் பறவை [Sivappu Kazhuthudan Oru Pachai Paravai] by Ambai

20. சிவப்புக் கழுத்துடன் ஒரு பச்சைப் பறவை [Sivappu Kazhuthudan Oru Pachai Paravai]

By: Ambai

3.84

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Myths and legends jostle with the contemporary in these stories where social issues of our times re… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You by Meena Kandasamy

21. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

By: Meena Kandasamy

4.17

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow … read more

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"Your absence is a presence."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"You only saw the tear waters that make these eyes fish."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"This pain we have harboured so long, breaks into beautiful song."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"What beats will capture our hearts, racing against these stolen, slow moving hours."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

12 must-read fiction books like Love by Toni Morrison

Transform Your Habits

Just Above My Head

James Baldwin

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White, #4)

Barbara Neely

4.21

Transform Your Habits

As for Me and My House

Sinclair Ross

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Children

Lucy Kirkwood

3.82

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13 best-selling fiction books like Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts

Transform Your Habits

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Our Nig

Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts

3.55

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The Garies and Their Friends

Frank J. Webb

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown , M. Giulia Fabi

3.23

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