The document provides summaries for 12 books. It summarizes To Kill a Mockingbird as the story of a young girl growing up in Alabama whose father defends a man in a controversial trial. It summarizes Swamplandia! as about an alligator-wrestling family living on an island theme park. It summarizes Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe as the friendship between an elderly woman and a housewife, told through stories of the past and present.

1. BOOKS LIKE
WHERE THE
CRAWDADS SING

2. The story of
Scout, a young
girl growing up in
Alabama whose
father is a lawyer
in a trial that
threatens to tear
their small town
apart.
To Kill a
Mockingbird
by Harper
Lee

3. The story of the
Bigtree family of
alligator wrestlers
who live in
Swamplandia, an
alligator-wrestling
theme park
located on an
island off the
coast of Florida
Swampladia
by Karen
Russell

4. A story of the past
and the present told
through the
friendship between
Evelyn Couch, a
middle-aged
housewife, and
Ninny Threadgoode,
an elderly woman
who lives in a
nursing home.
Fried Green
Tomatoes At
the Whistle
Stop Cafe
by Fannie
Flagg

5. It explores the plight
of a working-class
African-American
family in Mississippi
as they prepare for
Hurricane Katrina
and what happens to
them in the
aftermath of the
storm,
Salvage the
Bones
by Jesmyn
Ward

6. Zadie Anson and
Emma Colley have
been best friends since
their early 20s.Their
lives in Charlotte,
North Carolina, are
blissfully chaotic until
the return of a former
colleague unearths a
secret one of them has
been harboring for
years.
The Queen
of Hearts
by
Kimmery
Martin

7. Jivan is a Muslim girl
who is accused of
executing a terrorist
attack on a train.
Lovely—an
irresistible outcast—
has the alibi that can
set Jivan free, but it
will cost her
everything she holds
dear.
A Burning
by Megha
Majumdar

8. Their Eyes
Were
Watching
God by
Zora Neale
Hurston
A woman, Janie
Crawford, tells her
friend the story of
her childhood and
how through
personal and
romantic trials and
tribulations she has
emerged as the
woman she now is.

9. Prodigal
Summer by
Barbara
Kingsolver
The novel tells the
story of a small town
in Appalachia during
a single, humid
summer, when three
interweaving stories
of love, loss and
family unfold against
the backdrop of the
lush wildness of
Virginia mountains.

10. Cold
Mountain by
Charles
Frazier
It tells the story of W.
P. Inman, a wounded
deserter from the
Confederate army
near the end of the
American Civil War
who walks for
months to return to
Ada Monroe, the
love of his life

11. The story of the
McAllen and Jackson
families who try to
work a desolate farm
in the Mississippi
Delta. When family
members from both
families return from
World War II, it has
consequences
neither family can
imagine.
Mudbound
by Hillary
Jordan