7 must-read race books like Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

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Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp…

If you liked the race plot in Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • essays
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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2. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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5. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

Similar categories in Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • essays
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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8. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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10. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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11. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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12. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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13. The Liberators

By: E.J. Koh

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Koh's The Liberators book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • adult
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • race
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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16. Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more

Similar categories in Aaliyah Bilal's Temple Folk book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Emergency

By: Kathleen Alcott

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A woman finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of an art … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Alcott's Emergency book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • race
  • essays
  • audiobook
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21. The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories

By: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut." —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In T… read more

Similar categories in Stacie Shannon Denetsosie's The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. This Is Salvaged

By: Vauhini Vara

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more

Similar categories in Vauhini Vara's This Is Salvaged book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

23. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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24. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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25. You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writer Series)

By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

4.13

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build … read more

Similar categories in Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writer Series) book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • essays
Cover of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin  Graham

26. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Graham's Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • race
  • audiobook
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27. I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

By: Michael Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • essays
  • lgbt
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28. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go

By: Cleo Qian

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Qian's Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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29. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of I Am My Country: And Other Stories by Kenan Orhan

30. I Am My Country: And Other Stories

By: Kenan Orhan

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything”… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Orhan's I Am My Country: And Other Stories book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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31. The Bang-Bang Sisters

By: Rio Youers

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more

Similar categories in Rio Youers's The Bang-Bang Sisters book and Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

23 best-selling fiction books like Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Roman Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

Transform Your Habits

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Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

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Transform Your Habits

Loving Day

Mat Johnson

3.54

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

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R.O. Kwon

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