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9 best books like In My Father's House (Ernest J. Gaines): The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, The Water Dancer, Queen Sugar, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, The Gone Dead, Speaking of Summer, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
AuthorElisabeth Tova Bailey
ISBN1565126068
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that...
The Water Dancer
AuthorTa-Nehisi Coates
ISBN0399590595
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
Queen Sugar
AuthorNatalie Baszile
ISBN0670026131
A mother-daughter story of reinvention—about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana

Why exactly Charley Bordelon’s late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous....
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
AuthorGlory Edim
ISBN0525619771
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
The Gone Dead
AuthorChanelle Benz
ISBN0062490699
An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death

Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack...
Speaking of Summer
AuthorKalisha Buckhanon
The new novel from the author of Upstate, one of five books selected by the National Book Foundation for the inaugural Literature for Justice Program: a literary thriller about one woman's desperate search for her missing twin sister, a multi-layered mystery set against the neighborhoods of Harlem.

On...
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
AuthorJulie Kibler
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
AuthorChristopher Logue
ISBN0374529299
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher...
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
AuthorAnna Fifield
ISBN1541742486
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...
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