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Books Like White Teeth

by Zadie Smith · about this book

Loved White Teeth by Zadie Smith? If its literary fiction, funny and multiple pov hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Interior Chinatown, Candide and Black Cake. 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 White Teeth: Literary Fiction · Funny · Multiple POV · Dark Comedy · Ensemble Cast

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   Interior Chinatown

   Charles Yu

   Immigration · Satirical Humor · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Satirical

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   Candide

   Voltaire

   Dark Comedy · Faith Crisis · Literary Fiction · Satirical Humor · Satirical

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3. 

   Black Cake

   Charmaine Wilkerson

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Contemporary Fiction

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4. 

   The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

   Mathias Énard

   Satirical Humor · Satire · Literary Fiction · Ensemble Cast · Dark Comedy

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5. 

   Pachinko

   Min Jin Lee

   Immigration · Literary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Cultural Identity · Racism

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6. 

   The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

   James McBride

   Immigration · Ensemble Cast · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · Cultural Identity

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   Middlesex

   Jeffrey Eugenides

   Immigrant Protagonist · Immigration · Cultural Identity · Literary Fiction · Multigenerational Family

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8. 

   The City We Became

   N.K. Jemisin

   Ensemble Cast · Cultural Identity · Racism · Immigrant Protagonist · Multiple POV

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9. 

   And the Mountains Echoed

   Khaled Hosseini

   Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Multigenerational Family

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10. 

    Truly Like Lightning

    David Duchovny

    Contemporary Fiction · Faith Crisis · Satire · Religious Identity · Literary Fiction

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11. 

    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    Immigrant Protagonist · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · Cultural Identity

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12. 

    Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese

    Immigration · Immigrant Protagonist · Multigenerational Family · Literary Fiction · Sprawling Epic

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13. 

    Lies and Weddings

    Kevin Kwan

    Satirical Humor · Contemporary Fiction · Satire · Funny · Ensemble Cast

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14. 

    There Are Rivers in the Sky

    Elif Shafak

    Literary Fiction · Cultural Identity · Religious Identity · London · Multiple POV

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15. 

    The Weight of Ink

    Rachel Kadish

    Faith Crisis · Immigrant Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Religious Identity · London

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16. 

    Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Dark Comedy · Satirical Humor · Literary Fiction · Satire · Contemporary Fiction

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17. 

    Nowhere Boy

    Katherine Marsh

    Immigration · Contemporary Fiction · Immigrant Protagonist · Racism · Religious Identity

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18. 

    The Golem and the Jinni

    Helene Wecker

    Immigration · Cultural Identity · Immigrant Protagonist · Religious Identity · Literary Fiction

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19. 

    The Golden House

    Salman Rushdie

    Satirical · Immigrant Protagonist · Satire · Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction

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20. 

    Carl's Doomsday Scenario

    Matt Dinniman

    Dark Comedy · Satirical Humor · Satire · Funny · Ensemble Cast

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