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Books like Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley is about race and belonging, black los angeles, economic vulnerability. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. In Cold Blood
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    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · Memoir

    Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.

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  2. The Warmth of Other Suns
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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir

    Isabel Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration — the movement of six million Black Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1970 — is one of the most important works of narrative nonfiction published in the twenty-first century.

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  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann · History

    In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.

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  4. Between the World and Me
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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir

    Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.

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  5. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    Patrick Radden Keefe · History

    Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.

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  6. A Fatal Grace
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    A Fatal Grace

    Louise Penny · Mystery

    A Fatal Grace is the second novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines.

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