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Readers who finished Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by African American & Black, 20th Century, and Historical.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Confessions in B-Flat.

The Filling Station — Vanessa Miller

The Filling Station

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Jonah’s Gourd Vine — Zora Neale Hurston

Jonah’s Gourd Vine

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Who’s the Master — Eric Reese

Who’s the Master

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Code Name Butterfly — Embassie Susberry

Code Name Butterfly

Embassie Susberry

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

A Sportsman’s Notebook Stories — Ivan Turgenev

A Sportsman’s Notebook Stories

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Street — Ann Petry

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Color of Lightning A Novel — Paulette Jiles

The Color of Lightning A Novel

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Queen of Sugar Hill A Novel of Hattie McDaniel — ReShonda Tate

The Queen of Sugar Hill A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Chaneysville Incident A Novel — David Bradley

The Chaneysville Incident A Novel

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Can’t We Be Friends A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe — Eliza Knight

Can’t We Be Friends A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories — Johanna Kaplan

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context — Axel R. Schäfer

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context

Axel R. Schäfer

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The House of Eve — Sadeqa Johnson

The House of Eve

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

They Dream in Gold — Diabou Mai Sennaar

They Dream in Gold

Diabou Mai Sennaar

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Home to Harlem — Claude McKay

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Flipping Boxcars A Novel — Cedric The Entertainer

Flipping Boxcars A Novel

Cedric The Entertainer

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Jump Into the Sky — Shelley Pearsall

Jump Into the Sky

Shelley Pearsall

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Let the Children March — Monica Clark-Robinson

Let the Children March

Monica Clark-Robinson

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Last Thing You Surrender — Leonard Pitts (Jr.)

The Last Thing You Surrender

Leonard Pitts (Jr.)

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Mrs. Wiggins — Mary Monroe

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

A Calamity of Souls — David Baldacci

A Calamity of Souls

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Walls of Jericho — Rudolph Fisher

The Walls of Jericho

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The Narrows — Ann Petry

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

Beloved — Toni Morrison

Themes: African American & Black • 20th Century • Historical

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of African American & Black, 20th Century, Historical — the same threads that run through Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill. Among the authors featured: Vanessa Miller, Zora Neale Hurston, Eric Reese, Embassie Susberry, and others.

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