Books like Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

A continuation of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, The Great Hunt introduces the Horn of Valere and the quest to find it.

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

Gideon the Ninth follows a sword‑wielding necromancer who must team up with a bone‑witch to survive a deadly trial of wits and combat under an emperor’s watch in a sprawling sci‑fantasy universe.

In a world where magic once pulsed through every stone, children of Orïsha fight to reclaim their heritage after a tyrant extinguishes their powers and their people’s hope.

Two immortal beings, Doro and Anyanwu, clash and cooperate across time—from African jungles to American colonies—while confronting their fears and the limits of destiny.

When a child's body reanimates upon arrival at an ancient Thames inn, three families vie to claim her, setting off a perilous mystery of death, secrecy, and survival.

A tense crime novel where a murder mystery unfolds on an American university campus, involving faculty, students, and a vigilant group that seeks justice beyond the law.

Formerly bound by military custody, Loup and her partner Pilar work as elite bodyguards for a famous British rock band while a Washington investigation threatens to expose a decades‑old cover‑up at Outpost 12, the forgotten Texas border town where Loup once lived.

In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of 24 holy women who lived lives of virtue in unexpected and often difficult circumstances. Johnson shares her experience as an educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of 24 spiritual mentors who inspired her, Johnson shows how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God. She presents remarkable holy women and saints-including Irena Sendler who helped smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II-in a way that brings their vivid personalities to life and helps readers live out the challenges of their lives with virtue and conviction. The book includes a group discussion guide.

Set in 1930s Philadelphia, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s novel follows Joanna Mitchell and Peter Bye as their families navigate inheritance, prejudice, and the social aspirations of the black middle class.