One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Homegoing, it traces a family across many generations, letting the weight of history settle on ordinary lives. Its sweep of time and inherited patterns will feel familiar.
12 books to read next
Books Like Homegoing
If you loved Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing follows two half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana and the descendants who carry their stories forward across centuries, from the Gold Coast to Mississippi, Harlem and beyond. Readers love its structure: short linked chapters that move generation by generation, building a family history that feels both intimate and sweeping. The tone is spare and clear rather than sentimental, and the book's power comes from quiet accumulation, with the history of slavery, colonialism and migration felt through individual lives.
Generational sagas across time
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
A Korean family saga spanning generations and continents, following migration and hardship with the same patient attention to individual choices that Homegoing gives its branching lineage.
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
A novel of slavery and freedom in antebellum Virginia, portraying a community with the moral seriousness and humane detail that readers value in Gyasi's account of slavery's afterlives.
Linked stories and structure
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, Rosa Perez Perez
Its interlinked chapters build a full portrait of a community through separate episodes, much like Homegoing's chapters that pass the story from one character to the next.
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Told in connected voices and moving between past and present, it shows how one event ripples through many lives, echoing the book's braided family structure.
Beloved
Toni Morrison
A landmark novel of slavery's legacy in America, with fragmented, layered sections that trace how the past lives on in families, a central concern of Homegoing.
More stories of the African diaspora
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Following a Nigerian woman's move to the United States, it explores race, identity and the Black diaspora with the same intelligence and emotional clarity that drive Homegoing.
Stay with me
Ayòbámi Adébáyò
A Nigerian marriage under family pressure, told with careful attention to inheritance and the choices made under cultural expectation, resonating with Homegoing's concern for family legacy.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Set against the Biafran War, it shows how political upheaval shapes intimate family lives across generations, a theme that runs through Homegoing's account of West African history.
Go deeper into history
Kindred
Octavia Butler
A Black woman is pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation, making the physical and emotional costs of slavery vivid, much as Homegoing does through its generational reach.
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
A novel that turns the historical fight against slavery into a stark, memorable journey, appealing to readers who valued the unflinching look at American slavery in Homegoing.
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
A memoir of growing up under apartheid and its aftermath, offering a true account of how race and history shape a family, for readers drawn to Homegoing's lived perspective.
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