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Books like The Color Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker: what to read next, and why.

Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 · Literary A more haunting, difficult novel about Black women, memory and trauma.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 · Classics An earlier classic about a Black woman in the South finding independence and her own voice.
The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 · Historical A more commercial, easier novel about Black women and their stories in the Jim Crow South.