Lists and Suggestions
List: If You Like Toni Morrison

The Plague of Doves
Erdrich, Louise.
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North D...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McCullers, Carson,
A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the c...
Annie John
Kincaid, Jamaica.
For use in schools and libraries only. The theme of lost childhood remains constant in this short fi...

Lost in the City
Jones, Edward P.
The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prize...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gaines, Ernest J.,
A textbook reader for young adults features "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Er...

The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William,
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remem...

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Cooper, J. California.
Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability t...

Those Bones are Not My Child
Bambara, Toni Cade.
Those Bones Are Not My Child is a staggering achievement, a major work of American fiction: the nove...

Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James,
Describes a day in the life of several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three ...
Bastard Out of Carolina
Allison, Dorothy.
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with he...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Alexie, Sherman,
Offers a fictional portrait of the characters, language, traditions, and daily life of those living ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya.
Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's....

The Color Purple
Walker, Alice,
Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in...

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl ...

The Women of Brewster Place
Naylor, Gloria.
The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily plea...

Sag Harbor
Whitehead, Colson,
In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead--using the perpetual m...