18 books like White Teeth

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

Bread givers Anzia Yezierska · 1925 · ★ 3.7 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence. Shares: Assimilation, Immigrants, Domestic fiction

Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon · 2012 · ★ 3.4 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The new novel from Michael Chabon, his first in 5 years, is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse… Shares: Male friendship, Domestic fiction

The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most… Shares: Male friendship, Race Relations

Case Histories Kate Atkinson · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. More than thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters, each achingly lonely in her own way, reunite when their cruel and distant father dies. There, among the clutter of their childhood home, they unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance." "Case Two: All of Theo's… Shares: Fate and Fatalism, Domestic fiction

Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help… Shares: Genetic Engineering, Male friendship

On Beauty Zadie Smith · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England. Married young, thirty years later he is struggling to revive his love for his African American wife Kiki. Meanwhile, his three teenage children - Jerome, Zora and Levi - are each seeking the passions, ideals and commitments that will guide them through their own lives." "After Howard has a… Shares: Interracial marriage, Domestic fiction

Morir en el intento Jorge Ramos · 2005 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso... Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades de vida. Pero para un grupo de inmigrantes que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente y se subió a un trailer la noche del 13 de mayo del 2003, este sueño se tornó en una tragedia. Al menos 73 personas… Shares: Immigrants, Social conditions

Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara · 1934 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country… Shares: Ethnic relations, Domestic fiction

Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Moderate A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright." Shares: Social conditions, Domestic fiction

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: Immigrants, Race Relations

Peau Noire, Masques Blancs Frantz Fanon · 1952 · ★ 4.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.--Adapted from wikipedia.org. Shares: Race Relations, Social conditions

A Passage to India E. M. Forster · 1924 · ★ 3.7 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are… Shares: Race Relations, Social conditions

The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy… Shares: Male friendship, Domestic fiction

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: Race Relations, Domestic fiction

Women in Love D. H. Lawrence · 1877 · ★ 3.7 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true. Shares: Male friendship, Social conditions

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison · 1952 · ★ 3.9 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world. Filled with hope about his future, he goes to college, but gets expelled for showing one of the white benefactors the real and seamy side of black existence. He moves to Harlem and becomes an orator for the Communist party, known as the Brotherhood. In his position, he is both… Shares: Race Relations, Social conditions

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

Lost Paradise Kathy Marks · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Pitcairn Island - remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf - is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship in 1789." "In 2000, police descended on the British territorya lump of volcanic rock hundreds of miles… Shares: Race Relations, Social conditions

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