Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is about self-discovery, love and desire, black womanhood. 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.
- The Fire Next Time
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James Baldwin · History
The Fire Next Time, published in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement, contains two long essays by James Baldwin.
Read the summary → - 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.
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 → - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · Memoir
Maya Angelou's first volume of autobiography covers her childhood and adolescence in Stamps, Arkansas and San Francisco during the 1930s and 1940s, ending with the birth of her son at age sixteen.
Read the summary → - The Warmth of Other Suns
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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.
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.
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