Books like The Help

Are you waiting patiently for The Help by Kathryn Stockett? Or have you already read it and need something else just as good?

Here are some books that also take place in the south around the same time period. They all feature strong women at the center of the story.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. In 1964, Lily runs away from home and in search of a place her deceased mother visited: Tiburon, South Carolina.

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan chronicles the struggles of Laura McAllan raising her kids on a farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946.

Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes gives you a glimpse of life in the 1950s town of Petal, Mississippi.

Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks is told in in snippets of stories about Billy Beede--poor, unmarried, and pregnant--and her dead mother, Willa Mae Beede, who may or may not have been laid to rest with a fortune of jewels in her coffin. Set in 1963 in Texas and Arizona.

Saving Cee-Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Cee-Cee's mother is the laughingstock of the small Ohio town they live in. When Cee-Cee's mother is killed, her great aunt moves her from Ohio to Savannah, giving her a new perspective on life in the 1960s.


The best part is there are copies available now!