There There

Author: Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and w….Read More

17 Books Similar to There There

An American Marriage

Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary, Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction

The Underground Railroad

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she… Continue Reading Posted in: Afroamerikanische Historische Romane, Literary, Literature & Fiction

The Nickel Boys

Winner of the 2020 Pulizer Prize for Fiction.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr.… Continue Reading Posted in: Afroamerikanische Historische Romane

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Women, Humor & Satire, Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary, Literary Satire Fiction

Educated

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by… Continue Reading Posted in: Humor, Memoirs, Regional U.S. Biographies, Rural Life, Women's Biographies

Sing, Unburied, Sing

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the… Continue Reading Posted in: African American, African American Fantasy Fiction, Coming of Age Fantasy, Fantasy, Magical Realism

A Place for Us

A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural Heritage Fiction, Historical, Literary, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction

The Round House

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her… Continue Reading Posted in: Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Indian Women Crimes Against, Literature & Fiction, North Dakota

Circe

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient History Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literary, Mythology & Folk Tales, War Fiction

The Snow Child

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska.Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge'… Continue Reading Posted in: Alaska, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism

Milkman

In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming of Age Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction

A Tale for the Time Being

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life… Continue Reading Posted in: Asian American Literature & Fiction, British Columbia Vancouver Island, Contemporary Women Fiction, Women Authors

The Round House

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereOne of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to… Continue Reading Posted in: Coming of Age Fiction, Fiction, Indian Women Crimes Against, Native American Literature, North Dakota

Salvage the Bones

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't… Continue Reading Posted in: 2005, African American Literature, Fiction, Hurricane Katrina, Literary Fiction, Motherless Families

Waiting on a Cowboy

Meet New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan’s McGraths: a family as untamed as the land they call home. ,,Tate McGrath just didn’t get it. Why was Liz Scott, his best… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Romance

Leave a Reply