Readalikes for the 2018 Washtenaw Read: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi For Adults Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson The Mothers, by Brit Bennett Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir, by Ta-Nehisi Coates For Kids and Young Adults Sleep Well, Siba and Saba, by Nansubuga Isdahl A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, by Linda Sue Park The Red Pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney Abela, by Berlie Doherty Anansi the Spider, by Gerald McDermott (and other Anansi tales!) Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, by Katherine Rundell The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, by Deborah Hopkinson Henry’s Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine Copper Sun, by Sharon M. Draper Show Menu Menu About the Reads Book Discussions Suggest a Title Reads Events How to Participate Special Thanks Resources Past Reads Feedback