18 books like All God's Children

What to read after All God's Children — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 461p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped… Shares: Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans

La belle bête Marie-Claire Blais · 1959 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Premier roman de l'auteure (1959). La haine-amour d'une soeur qui se croit laide pour un frère trop beau. Avec le recul nécessaire et un bel esprit de synthèse, J. Basile écrit que le domaine de ##La belle bête## et de l'héroïne est celui du "féerique spirituel où se joue le fantasme de l'inceste tragique et mortifère". [SDM]. Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Josiah Henson · 1849 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe,… Shares: Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans

Life and times of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass · 1881 · 629p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglasss third autobiography, published in 1881 and revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would have put him and his family… Shares: Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans

Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times Fairbank, Calvin · 1890 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Fugitive slaves, Slavery

The Book of Luke Lovell Holder · 2025 · ★ 3.8 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Following the car accident that ended his football career and left his body scarred, 22-year-old Luke Griffin joins the cast of Endeavor, a new competition-based reality show that pits the tabloids’ darlings against one another in tasks of endurance and problem solving. At first, he thrives, effortlessly forming friendships and even a romantic relationship that he thinks will last a lifetime. But… Shares: Gay, LGBT

Capitalism and freedom Milton Friedman · 1962 · ★ 3.7 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

My bondage and my freedom Frederick Douglass · 1815 · ★ 4.4 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks. Shares: Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans

Call Me by Your Name André Aciman · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will… Shares: Gay, LGBT

Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm · 1941 · ★ 4.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul. It was translated into German and first published in 1952 under the title 'Die Angst vor der Freiheit' (The Fear of Freedom). In the book, Fromm… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Just by Looking at Him Ryan O'Connell · 2022 · ★ 4.4 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Elliott appears to be living the dream as a successful TV writer with a doting boyfriend. But behind his Instagram filter of a life, he’s grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, he can’t seem to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and his cerebral palsy is making him feel like gay Shrek. After falling down a rabbit hole of sex, drinking, and Hollywood backstabbing,… Shares: Gay, LGBT

On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 1859 · ★ 4.0 Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Box Hill Adam Mars-Jones · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self—on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray—ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome, a biker, and a top. (Colin, if largely unformed, is nevertheless decidedly a bottom.) Colin… Shares: Gay, LGBT

Cut & Run Abigail Roux · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case.Special Agent Ty Grady is cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. But when he's paired with… Shares: Gay, LGBT

If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to… Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

Less Andrew Sean Greer · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past. Shares: Gay, LGBT

Soul kiss Shay Youngblood · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Left by her mother in the care of her aunts at the age of seven, Mariah dreams of her mother's return and of the father she has never met, eventually beginning a correspondence with him that leads to a tumultuous visit when she turns fourteen. A first novel. Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

Paradise Toni Morrison · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what… Shares: Noirs américains, African Americans

About the book All God's Children →