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24 books recommended for fans of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer, tied together by themes of Short Stories (single author), African American & Black, and Literary.

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If I Survive You — Jonathan Escoffery

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales — Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Rattlebone — Maxine Clair

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Best of Simple Stories — Langston Hughes

The Best of Simple Stories

Langston Hughes

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Going to Meet the Man — James Baldwin

Going to Meet the Man

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Awkward Black Man Stories — Walter Mosley

The Awkward Black Man Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Neighbors and Other Stories — Diane Oliver

Neighbors and Other Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

So We Can Glow Stories — Leesa Cross-Smith

So We Can Glow Stories

Leesa Cross-Smith

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices — Ayesha Harruna Attah

Relations An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Ayesha Harruna Attah

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary Selected Works of Kathleen Collins — Kathleen Collins

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary Selected Works of Kathleen Collins

Kathleen Collins

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Known World LP — Edward P. Jones

The Known World LP

Edward P. Jones

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Deesha Philyaw

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories — Johanna Kaplan

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Miss Muriel and Other Stories — Ann Petry

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

We Two Alone Stories — Jack Wang

We Two Alone Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Last Suspicious Holdout Stories — Ladee Hubbard

The Last Suspicious Holdout Stories

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Five-Carat Soul — James McBride

Five-Carat Soul

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Roads of Destiny — O. Henry

Roads of Destiny

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Counternarratives — John Keene

Counternarratives

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Homeland and Other Stories — Barbara Kingsolver

Homeland and Other Stories

Barbara Kingsolver

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

After the Fireworks Three Novellas — Aldous Huxley

After the Fireworks Three Novellas

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance — Zora Neale Hurston

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

Cousin Phillis — Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

The Collection Plate Poems — Kendra Allen

The Collection Plate Poems

Themes: Short Stories (single author) • African American & Black • Literary

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