Books like For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf

For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange reads as raw, defiant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 1982

Shares the vvoice thread

83% genome match

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

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69% genome match

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison · 1970

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69% genome match

Liebeszauber

Louise Erdrich · 1984

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69% genome match

'da Kink in My Hair

Trey Anthony · 2005

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69% genome match

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

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69% genome match

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys · 1966

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69% genome match

Ruby

Rosa Guy · 1976

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69% genome match

The longest memory

Fred D'Aguiar · 1994

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69% genome match

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Randall Kenan · 1992

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69% genome match

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh · 1993

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69% genome match

Random acts of senseless violence

Jack Womack · 1993

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69% genome match