Literary fiction · Similar reads
Books like To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about racial injustice, moral courage, childhood and innocence. 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 Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · History
Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law makes a precise and uncomfortable argument: residential segregation in American cities was not the result of private prejudice or individual choice but of explicit, deliberate government policy at the federal, state, and local levels.
Read the summary → - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson · Memoir
Bryan Stevenson's memoir of his career as a capital defense attorney in Alabama, and specifically of his years working on the case of Walter McMillian — a Black man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Monroe County, Alabama — is simultaneously a riveting legal narrative and a sustained moral argument about the American criminal justice system's treatment of the poor and of Black defendants.
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 → - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Memoir
Isabel Wilkerson's second book proposes a reframing of American racial hierarchy: rather than thinking of racism primarily as prejudice, she argues that the United States has operated as a caste society, with Black Americans at the bottom of a rigidly maintained hierarchy similar in its structure — though different in its specific mechanisms — to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany.
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 → - 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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