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Roots was adapted into a TV miniseries in 1977 and was (and still is) the highest-rated miniseries of all time. Where Mitchell’s novel glamourises slavery and perpetuates the trope of the faithful and devoted slave, Roots puts into perspective the actual realities of slavery in America and how the country to this day is dealing with systemic racism directly as a result from this. Roots is an important American epic to read, especially if you’re looking for books like Gone With the Wind. The final bit of the book follows the last generation of Kunta Kinte’s line, author Alex Haley. It also subsequently tells the story of seven generations of Kinta Kinte’s family as they navigate slavery and racial relations in the USA. Roots follows title character Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century teenager in the Gambia who is sold into slavery and taken to the United States. Roots is especially important to read if you’re looking for an epic narrative similar to Margaret Mitchell’s novel that will take you away from the enormous whitewashing of history that is prevalent in Gone With the Wind.
Published in 1976 (the year of America’s bicentennial), Alex Haley’s epic novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family is one of the most important works of American literature and an excellent choice if you’re looking for books like Gone With the Wind. The epic nature about the beginnings and endings of a small town and the people who live in it are reminiscent of Margaret Mitchell’s novel and The Thorn Birds is a great book to read if you’re looking for something similar to Gone With the Wind. It was also adapted into an American TV mini-series in 1983 which still prevails as the second-highest-rated mini-series in United States TV history. The Thorn Birds remains the best-selling book in Australian history and has sold over 33 million copies since its publication. The novel specifically follows protagonist Meghann “Meggie” Cleary from the time she is a young girl in New Zealand, to her family moving to work for a rich relative in Drogheda, Australia and following the trials and tribulations that life threw during that time in history. The Thorn Birds follow the Cleary family as they navigate their lives in the early 20th century (the novel spans from 1915 to 1969) in an Australian outback sheep station called Drogheda.