Read-alikes and related books

Books like Home

Readers who finished Home by Toni Morrison and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Korean War, Southern, War & Military, and Siblings.

Korean War Southern War & Military Siblings Wars & Conflicts African American & Black Family Life Literary Historical History Fiction

Top related books to Home

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Home.

Banyan Moon A Novel

Thao Thai

Themes: Southern • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

The Sound and the Fury The Corrected Text

William Faulkner

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

Long After We are Gone A Novel

Terah Shelton Harris

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

The Book of Harlan

Bernice L. McFadden

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • African American & Black

Remember Ben Clayton A Novel

Stephen Harrigan

Themes: Southern • War & Military • Family Life

When I Come Home Again

Caroline Scott

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Family Life

The Mountains Sing Runner-Up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Family Life

#10

The Translation of Love

Lynne Kutsukake

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#11

Sisters with a Side of Greens

Michelle Stimpson

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

#12

The House Behind the Cedars

Charles W. Chestnutt

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

#13

Bitter and Sweet A Novel

Rhonda McKnight

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

#14

Face Off The Baddest Chick

Nisa Santiago

Themes: Southern • Siblings • African American & Black

#15

The Originals: The Resurrection

Julie Plec

Themes: Southern • Siblings • Family Life

#16

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Themes: Southern • African American & Black • Family Life

#17

Brotherless Night

V. V. Ganeshananthan

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#18

The Messenger of Magnolia Street A Novel

River Jordan

Themes: Southern • Siblings • Family Life

#19

White Elephant A Novel

Mako Idemitsu

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#20

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#21

The Two Lives of Sara

Catherine Adel West

Themes: Southern • African American & Black • Family Life

#22

When’s Mummy Coming? A Completely Gripping and Unforgettable Story about the Kindertransport During WW2

Rachel Wesson

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#23

Sentenced to Die Until Proven Guilty, Injustice for All, Trial by Fury — J. A. Jance

J.A. Jance

Themes: War & Military • Siblings • Family Life

#24

Home in the Morning

Mary Glickman

Themes: Southern • African American & Black • Family Life

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Korean War, Southern, War & Military — the same threads that run through Home by Toni Morrison. Among the authors featured: Thao Thai, Alice Walker, Sue Monk Kidd, William Faulkner, and others.