Books like All American Boys
12 books with a reading profile close to All American Boys by Jason Reynolds. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
You Think It, I'll Say It
narrative, accessible
Curtis Sittenfeld's collection of ten stories looks at contemporary American relationships with a sharp, witty eye.
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2
Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
narrative, accessible
Tom Hanks's debut book of fiction contains seventeen stories, each in some way featuring a typewriter, whether as the object at the centre or just in passing.
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3
The Invention of Wings
narrative, accessible
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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4
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse with twenty years of experience, begins her shift at a Connecticut hospital only to be reassigned because a patient’s parents are white supremacists who demand that no African…
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5
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
narrative, accessible
On New Year’s Eve in 1937, legal secretary Katey Kontent and her roommate Eve Ross meet a wealthy banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz hole.
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6
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Andy Dufresne, a banker convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, arrives at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine.
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7
The Jane Austen Book Club
narrative, accessible
Six Californians meet monthly for six months to read and talk about one Austen novel each.
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8
This Tender Land
narrative, accessible
In 1932, orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion flee the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a state-run institution where Native American children face systemic abuse.
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9
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
narrative, accessible
Henry Skrimshander is a gifted shortstop at Westish College whose life revolves around the pursuit of a flawless defensive record.
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10
The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
narrative, accessible
Set in the late nineteenth century during the compilation of the first Oxford English Dictionary, Esme Nicoll grows up beneath the sorting table where her father and other lexicographers classify words.
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11
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
narrative, accessible
In 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his foreclosed Nebraska farm after serving time at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter.
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12
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
narrative, accessible
Budo is the imaginary friend of Max, a boy with autism, and he has lasted far longer than most imaginary friends because Max still needs him.
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