If you liked "To Kill a Mockingbird"...


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  • A Black Englishman by Carolyn Slaughter
  • A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  • A Painted House by John Grisham
  • A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
  • A Raisin in the Sun by Robert Nemiroff Hansberry
  • A Time to Kill by John Grisham
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • All We Know of Love by Katie Schneider
  • Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
  • As Hot as it Was, You Ought to Thank Me by Nanci Kincaid
  • Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
  • Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright
  • Born in Sin by Evelyn Coleman
  • Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
  • Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
  • Clover by Dori Sanders
  • Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  • Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
  • Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
  • Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Staples
  • Darby by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
  • Dovey Coe by Francis O'Rourke Dowell
  • Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama
  • Drowing Ruth by Christina Schwartz
  • East Side Story by Louis Auchincloss
  • Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  • Five Boys by Mick Jackson
  • Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
  • Francie by Karen English
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • Homestead by Rosina Lippi
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • In Revere, In Those Days by Roland Merullo
  • In a Temple of Trees by Suzanne Hudson
  • In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  • Kinfolks by Kristin Hunter Lattany
  • Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
  • Listening for Leroy by Betsy Hearne
  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
  • Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
  • Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
  • Meridian by Alice Walker
  • Mississippi Trial by Chris Crowe
  • Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
  • Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
  • Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi
  • My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto
  • Nora, Nora by Anne River Siddons
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
  • Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
  • Say You Are my Sister by Laurel Brady
  • Season of the Snake by Claire Davis
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • Some Things that Stay by Sarah Willis
  • Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
  • Sounder by William H. Armstrong
  • Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher
  • Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
  • Sudden Rain by Maritta Wolff
  • Sudie by Sara Flanigan
  • Tender by Valerie Hobbs
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg
  • The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi
  • The Stones of Mourning Creek by Les Becquets
  • The Stunt by Nancy N. Rue
  • The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel
  • The Voice at the Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by Jacqueline Guidry
  • Trophy House by Anne Bernays
  • Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
  • Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals
  • What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
  • White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer
  • Wild Embers by Anita Bunkley
  • Wish You Well by David Baldacci
  • Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan

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