What to Read After Betsey Brown
Readers who loved Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Betsey Brown is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Betsey Brown
Homemade Love
Getting Mother's Body
Black Girl in Paris
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
nappy edges
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
Abeng
The color complex
Those Bones Are Not My Child
The Women and the Men
Miss Muriel and other stories
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
When chickenheads come home to roost
The salt eaters
Black, White and Jewish
The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni.
Black looks
Wrapped in Rainbows
Brown Girl in the Ring
Feminist theory
Meridian
Love poems
Colonize this!
The third life of Grange Copeland