Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Song of Solomon
The best books like Song of Solomon are Between the World and Me, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and The Alchemist. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is about identity and self-discovery, race and belonging, family and mythology. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Between the World and Me
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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.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi · History
Stamped from the Beginning is Ibram X.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett · Literary fiction
The Vanishing Half begins with identical twin sisters from Mallard, Louisiana — a fictional town of light-skinned Black people who have spent generations trying to whiten their bloodline.
Both dig into the american south.
Read the summary → - Devil in a Blue Dress
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Walter Mosley · Mystery
Easy Rawlins is a Black World War II veteran living in Watts in 1948.
Both dig into race and belonging.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction
A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fine Balance
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Rohinton Mistry · Literary fiction
A Fine Balance is set in an unnamed Indian city during Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975–1977, a period of suspended democracy, forced sterilization, and slum clearances that is barely taught in the West and barely taught in India.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · Literary fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus from early childhood to the edge of adulthood, when he leaves Ireland to pursue life as an artist.
A kindred literary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley · Literary fiction
A Thousand Acres retells King Lear on a thousand-acre Iowa farm in the 1970s.
A kindred literary fiction read.
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Books like Song of Solomon: quick answers
What are the best books like Song of Solomon?
The best books like Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison are Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Song of Solomon, such as identity and self-discovery, race and belonging, family and mythology.
What should I read after Song of Solomon?
A natural next read after Song of Solomon is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A kindred literary fiction read. Other strong choices are Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
What books are similar to Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison?
Song of Solomon centers on identity and self-discovery, race and belonging, family and mythology. Books with a similar feel include Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
