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
Race, Reform and Rebellion
My Soul Is Rested
When Affirmative Action Was White
White Over Black
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Assassination of Fred Hampton
Working toward Whiteness
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The Slave Community
Malcolm X
Freedom Summer
Martin & Malcolm & America
Harlem Renaissance
The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
Democracy in Black
Fire & Blood
Our Kind of People
Our America
Show Me A Hero
Like One of the Family
Proud Shoes
Not in My Neighborhood
From Slavery to Freedom