What to Read After Black Boy
Readers who loved Black Boy by Richard Wright keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Black Boy 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 Black Boy
Soul on Ice
Manchild in the promised land
Notes of a Native Son
The Souls of Black Folk
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Native Son
The Women Of Brewster Place
Disappearing acts
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Your blues ain't like mine
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Mama
Tar Baby
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Just asI am
Friends and Lovers
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Black like me
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Up from Slavery
Invisible Man
A Lesson Before Dying
Heart of a Woman