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Books like Long Division
A razor-sharp, time-bending Southern odyssey that wrestles with the ghosts of history through the eyes of a fiercely witty Black teenager. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Long Division.
- surreal
- bittersweet
- atmospheric
- haunted
- 01
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
A lush, mythic, and devastatingly tender portrait of a family bracing for the storm of a lifetime.
- 02
Crooked letter, crooked letter
Tom Franklin
A sweltering, slow-burn Southern mystery steeped in the melancholy of lost friendship and the inescapable gravity of small-town secrets.
- 03
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Ward Jesmyn
A haunting, lyrical road trip through the ghosts of the American South, where the past bleeds heavily into the present.
- 04
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
An unflinching, beautifully rhythmic exploration of the physical and emotional weight of generational trauma and systemic racism.
- 05
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
A pulp-infused road trip where the cosmic horrors of the occult pale in comparison to the everyday terrors of Jim Crow America.
- 06
Underground airlines
Ben H. Winters
A dread-soaked, hardboiled thriller set in a chillingly plausible alternate America that forces a reckoning with complicity and guilt.
- 07
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
A dark, modern fairy tale that transforms the very real anxieties of new parenthood into a terrifying, magical odyssey through the hidden realms of New York City.
- 08
The Mothers
Brit Bennett
A lyrical, sun-drenched exploration of how the secrets we keep in our youth become the ghosts that haunt our adulthood.
- 09
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany
A massive, hallucinatory labyrinth of a novel that traps you in a burning, shifting city where time and identity dissolve.
- 10
Real life
Brandon Taylor
A quiet, devastating dissection of intimacy, alienation, and the suffocating weight of unspoken pain over a single, humid weekend.
- 11
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
A haunting, poetic plunge into the intoxicating magic of girlhood friendships and the heavy shadows that eventually fracture them.
- 12
American War
Omar El Akkad
A harrowing, dread-soaked descent into the anatomy of radicalization, set against the backdrop of a fractured, climate-ravaged America.
