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Books Like Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison · about this book

Loved Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison? If its racism, literary fiction and classics hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Interior Chinatown, Middlesex and The Catcher in the Rye. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Invisible Man: Racism · Literary Fiction · Classics · Cultural Identity · Male Lead

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   Interior Chinatown

   Charles Yu

   Identity Formation · Cultural Identity · Racism · Belonging · Literary Fiction

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Identity Formation · Racial Violence · Cultural Identity · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction

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   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Identity Formation · Classics · Literary Fiction · Belonging · Self-Discovery

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   The Secret Life of Bees

   Sue Monk Kidd

   Racial Violence · Racism · Belonging · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator

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   Fight Club

   Chuck Palahniuk

   Identity Formation · Classics · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator

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   Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

   R.F. Kuang

   Cultural Identity · Racism · Belonging · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose

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   The Dispossessed

   Ursula K. Le Guin

   Classics · Belonging · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery · Male Lead

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   The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

   James McBride

   Racism · Racial Violence · Belonging · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity

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   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Racism · Racial Violence · Classics · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Classics · Racism · First Person Narrator

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11. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Belonging · Classics · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · First Person Narrator

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12. 

    The Personal Librarian

    Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

    Cultural Identity · Racism · Belonging · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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13. 

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Classics · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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    The Black Witch

    Laurie Forest

    Identity Formation · Racism · Self-Discovery · Belonging · First Person Narrator

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15. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Racism · Classics · Literary Fiction · Male Lead · First Person Narrator

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16. 

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    Belonging · Classics · Literary Fiction · Racism · Male Lead

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17. 

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Classics · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · First Person Narrator

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18. 

    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    Racial Violence · Racism · Belonging · Class Struggle · American South

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19. 

    The Record Keeper

    Agnes Gomillion

    Identity Formation · Racism · Cultural Identity · First Person Narrator · Freedom vs Control

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20. 

    The Vampire Lestat

    Anne Rice

    Classics · Dense Prose · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Self-Discovery

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