Read-alikes and related books

Books like Wahala

Looking for read-alikes for Wahala by Nikki May? These 24 titles overlap in Feminist, Urban & Street Lit, Cultural Heritage, and City Life and overall literary texture.

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Top related books to Wahala

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

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Themes: Urban & Street Lit • Cultural Heritage • City Life

The Book of Echoes

Rosanna Amaka

Themes: Urban & Street Lit • Cultural Heritage • City Life

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Feminist • Cultural Heritage • City Life

The Reading List A Novel

Sara Nisha Adams

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • Family Life

A Woman Is No Man A Novel

Etaf Rum

Themes: Feminist • Cultural Heritage • City Life

Mercy Street A Novel

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Themes: Feminist • Urban & Street Lit • City Life

Summer on the Bluffs A Novel

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Themes: Cultural Heritage • African American & Black • Family Life

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted A Novel

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Themes: Urban & Street Lit • African American & Black • Family Life

Black Girls Must Have it All A Novel

Jayne Allen

Themes: Urban & Street Lit • African American & Black • Family Life

#10

Manny and the Baby

Varaidzo

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • African American & Black

#11

Libertie A Novel

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Themes: Feminist • City Life • African American & Black

#12

This Motherless Land

Nikki May

Themes: Cultural Heritage • African American & Black • Family Life

#13

Chocolate Sangria A Novel

Tracy Price-Thompson

Themes: Urban & Street Lit • City Life • African American & Black

#14

Drives Like a Dream

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Themes: Feminist • City Life • Family Life

#15

City of Likes

Jenny Mollen

Themes: Feminist • City Life • Family Life

#16

Careful of the Company You Keep

Angie Daniels

Themes: Urban & Street Lit • African American & Black • Family Life

#17

Brava, Valentine A Novel

Adriana Trigiani

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • Family Life

#18

Chango’s Fire

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Themes: Urban & Street Lit • Cultural Heritage • City Life

#19

You Gotta Have Balls A Novel

Lily Brett

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • Family Life

#20

If Today Be Sweet A Novel

Thrity Umrigar

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • Family Life

#21

Fault Lines A Novel

Emily Itami

Themes: Cultural Heritage • City Life • Family Life

#22

Black Girl/White Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Feminist • African American & Black • Family Life

#23

These Women A Novel

Ivy Pochoda

Themes: Feminist • Urban & Street Lit • City Life

#24

On Rotation A Novel

Shirlene Obuobi

Themes: Cultural Heritage • African American & Black • Family Life

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Wahala by Nikki May — spanning Feminist, Urban & Street Lit, Cultural Heritage and featuring authors such as Nella Larsen, Rosanna Amaka, Zora Neale Hurston, Sara Nisha Adams, and others.