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Books like The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is about race and beauty standards, childhood and trauma, self-hatred and identity. 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.
- Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
Read the summary → - Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston · Literary fiction
Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel follows Janie Crawford across three marriages and several decades of life in the American South, from her grandmother's home in West Florida through the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, to the Everglades and back.
Read the summary → - Americanah
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Literary fiction
Americanah follows Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who leaves Lagos for America as a university student and spends fifteen years navigating a country that insists on categorizing her in ways Nigeria never did.
Read the summary → - The Color Purple
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Alice Walker · History
The Color Purple is Alice Walker's epistolary novel set in rural Georgia in the 1930s, told almost entirely through the letters of Celie, a Black woman who has survived sexual abuse, forced marriage, and the theft of her children.
Read the summary → - The Souls of Black Folk
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W.E.B. Du Bois · History
The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, is W.E.B.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
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