Books like Abide with me by E. Lynn Harris

A proud Caldecott‑Medal book in which a young boy named Peter delights in the city’s first snowfall, tracing footprints, building a snowman, and discovering the wonder of winter’s lasting magic.

A book featuring a young boy who shares imaginative stories and is creative and mischievous.

Addy, a young girl of African American heritage, discovers friendship and the power of a birthday in 1865 Philadelphia, facing racial prejudice.

A Black law student in Boston and later New York confronts his bisexual identity while navigating love, career, and grief, searching for acceptance and inner peace.

Blackbird tells the coming‑of‑age story of Johnnie Ray Rousseau, an African‑American gay high school student in California struggling with identity, friendship, romance, and the pressures of growing up.

Mama Day follows Ophelia and George as they navigate love and cultural differences while witnessing the fading Gullah culture on Georgia’s sea islands, a story that echoes themes of family, heritage, and female independence.

E. Lynn Harris chronicles his journey from a closeted gay boy in Arkansas to an acclaimed author, revealing how writing turned loneliness and self‑published struggles into triumphs that topped bestseller lists.

Just as I Am follows Raymond, a young black lawyer, and Nicole, an aspiring singer, as they navigate questions of sexuality, racism, and AIDS while seeking self‑acceptance and love in contemporary African‑American life.

Austin Channing Brown's memoir chronicles her journey as a biracial author and activist, exposing how white evangelicalism has fueled racial hostility and urging institutions to align diversity with action.

"In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black body and the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention to Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black."--BOOK JACKET.

AJ 'Al' Richardson enjoys New Orleans luxury and a lucrative NBA friendship with star Dray Jones, but their clandestine love lands them in a painful clash of public image and private desire, forcing heart‑wrenching choices.

Chauncey Greer, an African‑American entrepreneur in Atlanta, rekindles his love of music and confronts homophobia within his church as he navigates love, faith, and identity.

M.C. Higgins, the Great follows a young African-American teenager in Ohio as he wrestles with staying home to support his family or pursuing his own dreams, set against mountain life and industrial decline.

In Junior Brown’s history‑filled classroom, a large, overprotected musical prodigy and a witty, family‑less loner delve into a secret cellar room, facing school authority and their own dreams.