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If you loved Tar Baby

Books like Tar Baby

If you loved Tar Baby by Toni Morrison, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Temple of My Familiar

Alice Walker

No. 2

Sula

Toni Morrison

No. 3

Jazz

Toni Morrison

No. 4

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

No. 5

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

No. 6

Paradise

Toni Morrison

No. 7

Beloved

Toni Morrison

No. 8

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Alice Walker

No. 9

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

No. 10

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

No. 11

Disappearing Acts

Terry McMillan

No. 12

Home

Toni Morrison

No. 13

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

No. 14

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

No. 15

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur, Angela Y. Davis, Lennox S. Hinds

No. 16

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

No. 17

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

No. 18

God Help the Child

Toni Morrison

No. 19

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

No. 20

Friends and Lovers

Eric Jerome Dickey

No. 21

Black Boy

Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr.

No. 22

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Michael Dorris

No. 23

Affinity

Sarah Waters

No. 24

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan