Read-alikes and related books

Books like Home

Explore 24 books like Home by Toni Morrison — a handpicked selection united by War & Military, African American & Black, Literary, and Historical.

Top related books to Home

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

The Last Thing You Surrender

Leonard Pitts (Jr.)

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

Sisters in Arms A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II

Kaia Alderson

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

Sister Mother Warrior A Novel

Vanessa Riley

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

The Book of Harlan

Bernice L. McFadden

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

Margaret Walker

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

Things Past Telling A Novel

Sheila Williams

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

The Court-Martial of Charlie Newell

Gerard Shirar

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

Chameleon A Black Box Thriller

Remi Adeleke

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

White Doves at Morning A Novel

James Lee Burke

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#10

Code Name Butterfly

Embassie Susberry

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#11

Washington and Caesar

Christian Cameron

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#12

Miracle at St. Anna

James McBride

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#13

The Buffalo Soldier

Sherry Garland

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#14

Deception A Novel

Selena Montgomery

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Literary

#15

Victory: Into the Fire

Harold Coyle

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#16

We Look Like Men of War

William R. Forstchen

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#17

Invasion

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#18

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#19

Nastasia’s March An Army of Hope

Shakeema Funchess

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#20

A Long Walk to Water Based on a True Story

Linda Sue Park

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#21

The Scarlet Stockings Spy

Trinka Hakes Noble

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black • Historical

#22

Paradise

Toni Morrison

Themes: African American & Black • Literary • Historical

#23

Hard Revolution A Novel

George P. Pelecanos

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black

#24

The Blood Trials

N. E. Davenport

Themes: War & Military • African American & Black

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of War & Military, African American & Black, Literary — the same threads that run through Home by Toni Morrison. Among the authors featured: Leonard Pitts (Jr.), Kaia Alderson, Vanessa Riley, Bernice L. McFadden, and others.