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Books like Mrs. Wiggins

Explore 24 books like Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe — a handpicked selection united by World Literature, African American & Black, 20th Century, and American.

Top related books to Mrs. Wiggins

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Uncle Tom’s Children Novellas

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Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

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

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Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

Take the Long Way Home

Rochelle Alers

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

The Street

Ann Petry

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

The House of Eve

Sadeqa Johnson

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

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

Kaia Alderson

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

American Daughters A Novel

Piper Huguley

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

The Queen of Sugar Hill A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

ReShonda Tate

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

Beloved

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Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#11

Home to Harlem

Claude McKay

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#12

Divine Days A Novel

Leon Forrest

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#13

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

WILLA. CATHER

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#14

The Walls of Jericho

Rudolph Fisher

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#15

The Secret Women A Novel

Sheila Williams

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#16

Island Queen A Novel

Vanessa Riley

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#17

A Woman of Endurance A Novel

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#18

Africaville A Novel

Jeffrey Colvin

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#19

The Rib King A Novel

Ladee Hubbard

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#20

Wade in the Water A Novel

Nyani Nkrumah

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#21

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • American

#22

Going to Meet the Man

James Baldwin

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

#23

The Best of Simple Stories

Langston Hughes

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Themes: World Literature • African American & Black • 20th Century

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe — spanning World Literature, African American & Black, 20th Century and featuring authors such as Richard Wright, Eliza Knight, Rochelle Alers, Ann Petry, and others.