What to Read After The Color Purple
Readers who loved The Color Purple by Alice Walker keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Color Purple is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Color Purple
My life on the road
Water for Elephants
The Poisonwood Bible
The secret life of bees
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Joy Luck Club
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The World According to Garp
White oleander
A tree grows in Brooklyn
The Thorn Birds
The Lovely Bones
Angela's Ashes
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Help
The Good Earth
Gone With the Wind
The Bluest Eye
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Beloved
The Grapes of Wrath
A Streetcar Named Desire
Years of Grace