18 books like Intruder in the Dust

What to read after Intruder in the Dust — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903 · ★ 4.3 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society. Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans, Criticism and interpretation

Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him. Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Historical Fiction

Sanctuary William Faulkner · 1931 · ★ 3.6 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Lee Goodwin es acusado de asesinato. El escenario del crimen es una casa oculta entre los árboles que alberga una destilería ilegal. Allí viven, entre otros, Ruby, una mujer que ha renunciado a todo por Lee, y Popeye, un sádico gánster marcado por una infancia terrible. El abogado Horace Benbow lucha para que Goodwin no sea juzgado por ser quien es, sino por los actos de los que le acusan. Para… Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Crimes against

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose. Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Criticism and interpretation

The Town William Faulkner · 1957 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Flem Snopes goes on to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat. Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane · 1855 · ★ 3.3 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as… Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Criticism and interpretation, Historical Fiction

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner · 1936 · ★ 4.1 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Autobiography and Black identity politics Kenneth Mostern · 1999 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Why has autobiography been central to African-American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African-Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative… Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans

The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Challenging In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation. Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

The Europeans Henry James · 1878 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Europeans concerns an expatriate American, Eugenia, and her artist brother, Felix Young. Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince, but she is to be repudiated in favor of a state marriage; thus she leaves for Boston to make an appropriate match of her own. Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin · 1965 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate African-American fiction Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans

Giovanni's Room James Baldwin · 1956 · ★ 4.3 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity. Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry · 1958 · ★ 3.9 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased… Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans

The fire next time James Baldwin · 1962 · ★ 4.5 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate From Amazon.com: A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two… Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, African Americans

Roots Alex Haley · 1861 · ★ 4.4 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural… Shares: Afro-Americans, African Americans, Historical Fiction

This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.6 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the… Shares: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents.  Shares: Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Passing Nella Larsen · 1929 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a… Shares: Afro-Americans, Race Relations, Criticism and interpretation

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