What to Read After The Outsider
Readers who loved The Outsider by Richard Wright keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Outsider 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 Outsider
Manchild in the Promised Land
The Ways of White Folks
Notes of a Native Son
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Another Country
Spook Who Sat by Door
Juneteenth
The Price of the Ticket
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
Black No More
Linden Hills
Brown Girl, Brownstones.
Gorilla, My Love.
Complete Fiction
The Kindness of Strangers
Eight Men
Race Matters
Soul on Ice
Nigger
The mis-education of the Negro
In Search of Satisfaction
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive