Deacon King Kong
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who witnessed it—from James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird
In Sept…
If you like book Deacon King Kong here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
James
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view
Buy this book on Amazon
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans,… -
North Woods
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists,…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Table for Two
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles. The million…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Wandering Stars
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
Buy this book on Amazon
With her remarkable i… -
The Mighty Red
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circums…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Nickel Boys
Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida.
Buy this book on Amazon
Elwoo… -
Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
Buy this book on Amazon
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening t… -
The Covenant of Water
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Erasure
Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploit…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The God of the Woods
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide
Buy this book on Amazon
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barb… -
Tom Lake
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.
Buy this book on Amazon
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to th… -
The Berry Pickers
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
Buy this book on Amazon
Jul… -
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
Buy this book on Amazon
“Ray Car… -
Trust
An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception
Buy this book on Amazon
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary… -
-
Demon Copperhead
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."
Buy this book on Amazon
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a sin… -
Playground
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Be…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Sentence
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's…
Buy this book on Amazon