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Can't get enough of the entertaining and multifaceted The Help by Kathryn Stockett?
If you enjoyed this popular read, consider the following titles:

For the south & the civil rights movement of the 1960s...

Bombingham -- Anthony Grooms
The Bridge -- Doug Marlette
Five Smooth Stones -- Ann Fairbairn
Four Spirits -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Freshwater Road -- Denise Nicholas
Magic Time -- Doug Marlette
The Moon in Our Hands -- Tom Dyja
The Summer We Got Saved -- Pat Cunningham Devoto

For racism & race relations...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -- Sherman Alexie
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Tortilla Curtain -- T. Coraghessan Boyle

For female relationships & friendships, including mothers & daughters...

"...and Ladies of the Club" -- Helen Hooven Santmyer
Charms for the Easy Life -- Kaye Gibbons
The Friday Night Knitting Club -- Kate Jacobs
The Secret Life of Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd
The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart -- Alice Walker

For coming of age stories...

Ellen Foster -- Kaye Gibbons
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel -- Jeannette Walls
The Tender Bar -- J. R. Moehringer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Betty Smith
Walking Across Egypt -- Clyde Edgerton

For the role of the African-American caregiver and the children cared for...

We Are All Welcome Here -- Elizabeth Berg

For multiple voices...

The History of Love -- Nicole Krauss
Son of a Witch -- Gregory Maguire

For classic southern writers, try...

Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor
Eudora Welty

And for more books featuring strong southern women, sample these authors...

Fannie Flagg
Jill McCorkle
Ann B. Ross
Lee Smith
Bailey White

(Please note: Readers will find overlapping themes within many of the titles listed above.)

And if you haven't already listened to the audio version of The Help, do!

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