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Brit Bennett

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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,019,873 ratings · 83,061 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Vanishing Half 4.12 avg rating — 851,867 ratings — published 2020 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mothers 3.88 avg rating — 128,503 ratings — published 2016 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Claudie by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some People Have Real Problems by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Tessa Thompson (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.42 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Je ne sais pas quoi faire des gentils blancs 4.15 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures with Claudie (American Girl: Claudie #2) by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterball 3.56 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half / The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 185 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half / Girl, Woman, Other by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Bernardine Evaristo 4.25 avg rating — 59 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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American Girl: Claudie (2 books)
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

by Alix E. Harrow

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The Mothers

by Brit Bennett

2 votes, 16.7%

The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

2 votes, 16.7%

Willa's Grove

by Laura Munson

2 votes, 16.7%

The Lightness

by Emily Temple

1 vote, 8.3%

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Gaskell

1 vote, 8.3%

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

by Sara Collins

1 vote, 8.3%

Subduction

by Kristen Millares Young

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Trumpet

by Jackie Kay

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A Spool of Blue Thread

by Anne Tyler

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