18 books like The Hate U Give

What to read after The Hate U Give — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.9 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to… Shares: Young Adult

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak Adi Alsaid · 2019 · ★ 3.0 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A story about being in love with love. Dumped by her boyfriend the summer after senior year, popular love-and-dating columnist Lu Charles can’t seem to write another word. Devastated, she spends her time wondering if everything she used to believe about love was a lie. But when Lu overhears another college-bound couple breaking up—before deciding to stay together for one final summer—she is… Shares: Emotions & Feelings, Social Themes, Young Adult

In the Heat of the Night John Ball · 1981 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man-Virgil Tibbs-is a skilled homicide detective, passing through racially tense Wells, South Carolina, on his way back to California. Even more surprising, Wells's new police chief recruits Tibbs to help with the… Shares: African American, Race Relations

Judy Moody was in a Mood Megan McDonald · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage. Shares: Emotions & Feelings, Social Themes

Amari and the Night Brothers B. B. Alston · 2021 · ★ 4.4 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari… Shares: African American, Social Themes

A rap on race Margaret Mead · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate (From the introduction) On August 25, 1970, anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin met for the first time to have three recorded conversations, totaling more than seven hours of tape that, once transcribed, would compose the book, A Rap on Race (1971). The Mead and Baldwin Book is an amazing account documenting the meeting of two of the twentieth century's paradigmatic thinkers and… Shares: African American, Race Relations

Darktown Thomas Mullen · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by… Shares: African American, Race Relations

Lightning men Thomas Mullen · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Reads like the best of James Ellroy."--Publishers Weekly (starred review, on Darktown) "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers."--The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown. Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in… Shares: African American, Race Relations

Brother David Chariandy · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Toronto Book Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Globe and Mail, National Post, Guardian, Esquire, New York Public Library, NOW Magazine, Chatelaine, CBC, Quill & Quire, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Kirkus Reviews, and more A Canada Reads Finalist A Penguin… Shares: African American, Race Relations

The Sun is Also a Star Nicola Yoon · 2016 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good… Shares: Emotions & Feelings, Young Adult

The Unvanquished William Faulkner · 1938 · ★ 3.8 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. Shares: African American, United States

Breach of trust David Ellis · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths. Shares: Witnesses, United States

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: Race Relations, United States

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: Race Relations, United States

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

Tithe Holly Black · 2002 · ★ 3.7 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows. Shares: Social Themes, Young Adult

The Queen Josh Levin · 2019 · ★ 3.6 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "In the fall of 1974, the Chicago Tribune found a woman its readers were sure to hate. Linda Taylor had reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a scammer, a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. But… Shares: Race Relations, United States

Neverhome Laird Hunt · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Laird… Shares: Race Relations, United States

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