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24 books recommended for fans of Passing by Nella Larsen, tied together by themes of African American & Black, Classics, Literary, and Historical.

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Quicksand — Nella Larsen

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Color Purple A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel — Alice Walker

The Color Purple A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins — Mark Twain

Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man — James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Roads of Destiny — O. Henry

Roads of Destiny

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) — Margaret Walker

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

Margaret Walker

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • 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: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Known World LP — Edward P. Jones

The Known World LP

Edward P. Jones

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love Stories — Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love Stories

Kathleen Collins

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Street — Ann Petry

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Walls of Jericho — Rudolph Fisher

The Walls of Jericho

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Cousin Phillis — Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Color Purple — Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Beloved — Toni Morrison

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

The Man Who Lived Underground A Novel — Richard Wright

The Man Who Lived Underground A Novel

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Kindred — Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories — Johanna Kaplan

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

Magic City A Novel — Jewell Parker Rhodes

Magic City A Novel

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: African American & Black • Classics • Literary

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