Books like The Reformatory
In 1950 Florida, twelve-year-old Robert Stephens is sent to the segregated Gracetown School for Boys for kicking a white boy who harassed his sister, and finds it haunted by boys who never left, while his sister Gloria fights to get him out.
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The Nickel Boys
Two Black boys at a reform school in Jim Crow Florida endure systematic brutality, told in spare prose based on a real institution's buried history.
Kin
Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls who grew up as best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, take very different paths through the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, Vernice to Spelman College in Atlanta and a world of privilege, Annie in search of the mother who left her.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In 1933 Mississippi, nine-year-old Cassie Logan and her family, Black landowners determined to keep their land, face the cruelty of segregation and the night riders, and Cassie learns what it costs her parents to stand firm.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern arrives pregnant and alone at Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, a home where families hide unwed girls until their babies can be given away, and a librarian's book on witchcraft puts power in the girls' hands for the first time.
Lovecraft Country
In 1954, Korean War veteran Atticus Turner sets out from Chicago with his uncle George, who publishes a travel guide for Black motorists, to find his missing father, and the trail leads to a New England village, a powerful white family and a secret society that needs Atticus.
The Help
In 1962 Jackson a young white graduate secretly co-writes a book with the black maids of her friends, and Mississippi is exactly as dangerous about it as you would expect.
The Institute
Twelve-year-old Luke Ellis, a gifted boy from Minneapolis, is taken from his home one night and wakes in a facility deep in the Maine woods that holds other children with telepathic and telekinetic gifts, where the staff have no intention of letting anyone leave.
Black Water Rising
In 1981 Jay Porter, a struggling Black lawyer in Houston who was once a student radical, takes his pregnant wife on a cheap birthday boat ride on the bayou, hears gunshots, and pulls a white woman out of the water.
March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.