What to Read After Up from Slavery
Readers who loved Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Up from Slavery 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 Up from Slavery
The mis-education of the Negro
My bondage and my freedom
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Nigger
The Souls of Black Folk
Before the Mayflower
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Why We Can't Wait
Black like me
Sojourner Truth
Soul on Ice
Race Matters
Manchild in the promised land
Notes of a Native Son
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Disappearing acts
The Women Of Brewster Place
Black Boy
Your blues ain't like mine
Malcolm X Speaks
The American language
The education of Henry Adams