Sonoma County Reads / The Big Read 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird Read-alike List - Suggested books for adults and teens
FICTION
Allen |
Rails under my back |
Bell |
Gospel choirs: psalms of survival for an alien land called home |
Caldwell |
The Black and White stories of Erskine Caldwell |
Dalton |
Been here and gone |
Ellison |
Juneteenth: a novel |
Faulkner |
Light in August |
Foster |
Passing by Samaria |
Hart |
Adelaide Piper |
Hill |
Cry me a river |
Hill |
Rhythms |
Himes |
Yesterday will make you cry |
Lincoln |
Sap rising |
McCarthy |
Lay that trumpet in our hands |
McCullers |
Collected stories |
McCullers |
Member of the wedding |
Nicholas |
Freshwater Road |
Plain |
Fortune’s hand |
Reynolds |
Firefly cloak |
Smothers |
Down in thee Piney Woods |
Twain |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Warren |
All the king’s men |
Williams |
Dessa Rose |
STORY COLLECTIONS
Black American short stories: 100 years
Calling the wind: 20th century African American short stories
Ebony rising: short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance
Talk that talk: an anthology of African American storytelling
YOUNG ADULT
Ellsworth |
In search of Mockingbird |
Meyer |
White lilacs |
Myers |
The glory field |
Myers |
Harlem summer |
Taylor |
The Land |
NON-FICTION
305.42 |
Stepping out of the shadows: Alabama women, 1819-1990 |
305.48 Daniel |
Fatal flowers: on sin, sex and suicide in the Deep South |
305.8 Bay |
White image in the black mind: African American ideas about white people, 1830-1925 |
305.8 Davidson |
Best of enemies: race and redemption in the South |
305.8 Lincoln |
Coming through the fire… |
305.8009 Aronson |
Race: a history beyond black and white |
305.896 Packard |
American nightmare: the history of Jim Crow |
305.896 Remembering |
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the segregated South (2 CD’s included) |
309.175 Caldwell |
You have seen their faces |
323.092 Egerton |
Speak now against the day: the generation before the Civil Rights movement in the South |
323.1 Fairclough |
Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000 |
345.73 Boyle |
Arc of justice |
362.4209 Burch |
Unspeakable: the story of Junius Wilson |
364.1 Dray |
At the hands of persons unknown: the lynching of Black America |
398 Hughes |
Book of Negro folklore |
398 Leeming |
Myths, legends and folktales of America |
398.2 |
From my people: 400 years of African American folklore |
398.2 Hurston |
Every tongue got to confess: Negro folktales from the gulf states |
746.46 |
Quilts of Gee’s Bend |
810.8 |
Jump Jim Crow: lost plays, lyrics and street prose |
810.9 Davenport |
Myth of Southern history: historical consciousness in 20th century Southern literature |
810.9 Hill |
Harlem stomp!: a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance |
812 Weales |
Tennessee Williams |
813 Hurston |
Zora Neale Hurston |
813 Hurston |
Zora Neale Hurston: a storyteller’s life |
818 Gaines |
Mozart and Leadbelly: stories and essays |
818 Tate |
Allen Tate: orphan of the South |
917.704 Harris |
South of haunted dreams: a ride through slavery’s old backyard |
973.04 Hauser |
Great ambitions, 1896-1909: from separate but equal |
973.04 Hine |
Path to equality: from the Scottsboro case to the breaking of baseball’s color barrier, 1931-1947 |
973.049 Myers |
One more river to cross: an African American photograph album |
973.0496 Grossman |
A chance to make good: African Americans, 1900-1929 |
975 Cason |
90’0s in the shade |
975 Hahn |
A nation under our feet: Balck political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration |
975 Wyatt-Brown |
Southern honor: ethics and behavior in the old South |
975.00496 Litwack |
Trouble in the mind: Black Southerners in the age of Jim Crow |
975.041 Ayers |
The promise of the New South: life after Reconstruction |
B Hurston |
Folklore, memoirs and other writings |
B Norris |
Last of the Scottsboro boys: an autobiography |
B Shaw |
All God’s dangers: the life of Nate Shaw |
