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The Skokie Public Library in Illinois has a page of read-alikes for The Help, grouped by books about:
  • race relations and the South,
  • coming of age and the civil rights movement,
  • friendships between women, and
  • compelling nonfiction about the same era.

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Books
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  • Call ~ Yannick Murphy
  • Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
  • Freshwater Road ~ Denise Nicholas
  • The Friday Night Knitting Club ~ Kate Jacobs
  • Four Spirits ~ Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Housekeeper and the Professor ~ Yoko Ogawa
  • I Hotel ~ Karen Yamashita
  • The Living ~ Annie Dillard
  • Mudbound ~ Hillary Jordan
  • Night Talk ~ Elizabeth Cox
  • Persia Cafe ~ Melany Neilson
  • The Queen of Palmyra ~ Minrose Gwin
  • Remains of the Day ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Right as Rain ~ Bev Marshall
  • The Secret Life of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Space Between Us ~ Thrity Umrigar
  • Speed of Light ~ Elizabeth Rosner
  • Street ~ Anne Petry
  • Sula ~ Toni Morrison
  • The Summer We Got Saved ~ Pat C. Devoto
  • Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour ~ Peniel E. Joseph
  • Water for Elephants ~ Sara Gruen
  • We Are All Welcome Here ~ Elizabeth Berg
  • We the Animals ~ Justin Torres
DVDs
  • Standing On My Sisters’ Shoulders
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  • Civil Rights
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  • Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years
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  • Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
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