18 books like Sula

What to read after Sula — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Beloved Toni Morrison · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 362p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in… Shares: 1000blackgirlbooks, Ohio, African American women, African Americans

In love & trouble Alice Walker · 1973 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. Dating back to the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively, these short stories cover the Pulitzer… Shares: 1000blackgirlbooks, African American women, African Americans

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: Noires américaines, African American women, African Americans

Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing… Shares: Noires américaines, African American women

Meridian Alice Walker · 1976 · ★ 3.8 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Set in the 1960s and 1970s, Meridian centers on Meridian Hill, a student at the fictitious Saxon College, who becomes active in the Civil Rights Movement. She becomes romantically involved with another activist, Truman Held. They have a turbulent on-and-off relationship, during which she becomes pregnant by him. After Meridian has an abortion, Truman becomes far more attached to her and longs… Shares: 1000blackgirlbooks, African American women, African Americans

To Take B. Love · 2017 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Moderate iii, 72 pages ; 20 cm Shares: African American women, 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: African American women, City and town life, African Americans, Domestic fiction

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: African American women, Female friendship, Open_syllabus_project

God Help the Child Toni Morrison · 2015 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused… Shares: Noires américaines, African Americans

Passing by Samaria Sharon Ewell Foster · 1999 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Eighteen-year-old African-American Alena's sheltered life on her parent's Mississippi farm has not prepared her for the truth about racism, but a shocking discovery leads her to leave her home in 1919 and travel to Chicago in search of answers and justice. Shares: African American women, African Americans

Kindred Octavia E. Butler · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more… Shares: African American women, Open_syllabus_project, African Americans

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · ★ 4.0 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny. Shares: African American women, Open_syllabus_project, African Americans

The Black Door Velvet · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Ariel Vaughn is high powered attorney and a partner at her firm, dating one of the most eligible bachelors in New York City, who is also a powerful judge firmly on the political path. She's living the high life, but her sex life has hit a low point. Once a tiger in the sheets, his interest has cooled considerably, and she's wound so tight she's about to explode. But when a hot young escort… Shares: African American women, African Americans

Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 1969 · ★ 4.3 · 768p · ≈ 25h · Moderate Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze. Shares: 1000blackgirlbooks, African Americans

Angela Davis Angela Y. Davis · 1974 · ★ 3.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & commitment to global liberation of the oppressed. Shares: African American women, African Americans

Sanctuary Beverly Lewis · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ajax the Younger violates Cassandras sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE]] Shares: Female friendship, Domestic fiction

Dust tracks on a road Zora Neale Hurston · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging xii, 308, 16 pages: 21 cm Shares: African American women, African Americans

The secret life of bees Sue Monk Kidd · 2000 · ★ 4.1 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest… Shares: African American women, Domestic fiction

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