What to Read After The best of Simple
Readers who loved The best of Simple by Langston Hughes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The best of Simple 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 best of Simple
Manchild in the Promised Land
The Wedding
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
A Gathering of Old Men
The Blacker the Berry ...
Brown Girl, Brownstones.
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Moses
Gorilla, My Love.
Before the Mayflower
Black No More
Just Above My Head
Clotel
The Ways of White Folks
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Marrow of Tradition
Miracle at St. Anna CD
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Eight Men
When Washington Was in Vogue
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
I Wonder As I Wander
Dust Tracks on a Road