What to Read After The Promised Land
Readers who loved The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Promised Land 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 The Promised Land
The Warmth of Other Suns
At the hands of persons unknown
When Affirmative Action Was White
Assassination of Fred Hampton
My soul is rested
Working toward Whiteness
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Race, reform and rebellion
White over black
The slave community
Different Mirror
Fire & Blood
Our Kind of People
Our America
Like One of the Family
Proud shoes
Freedom Summer
Not in my neighborhood
Harlem renaissance
Martin & Malcolm & America
Democracy in Black
The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
From slavery to freedom
A different mirror