Highly recommended fiction (with themes comparable to my novel) by other authors:
Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
Megha Majumdar, A Burning
Chang-Rae Lee, The Surrendered
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois
Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man and Exit West
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
Pablo Medina, The Cuban Comedy
Carolina de Robertis, The President and the Frog & Cantoras
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night
Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
Phil Clay, Missionaries
Ravi Howard, Like Trees Walking
Steven Gardner, Pieces of Rope Too Short to Keep
Javier Marías, Infatuations
Henri Bosco, Malicroix
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird and Deacon King Kong
Justin Torres, We the Animals
Dawn Turner, Three Girls from Bronzeville
Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
Julia Alvarez, Afterlife
Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Marilynne Robinson, absolutely everything she’s ever written, starting with Gilead
Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth
Kiese Laymon, Heavy
Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
Colum McCann, Apeirogon
Mahir Guven, Older Brother
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Tea Obreht, Inland & The Tiger’s Wife
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy
Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels & The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
In Crime/Mystery Genre:
- Chris Bohjalian, The Double Bind
- Tana French, In the Woods
- Penny Louise, The Madness of Crowds
- James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon’s Bounce
- Jo Nesbo, The Snowman and Midnight Sun
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Attica Locke, Black Water Rising
Non-Fiction
- Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True