What to Read After Black folktales
Readers who loved Black folktales by Julius Lester keep reaching for these 22 books. This list is built from where Black folktales 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 folktales
Poems
Antigone
Song of Solomon
Sula
The House on Mango Street
Paradise Lost
The Bluest Eye
White oleander
Night
Bridge to Terabithia
The Crucible
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Beloved
The Giving Tree
Persuasion
Of Mice and Men
Where the Wild Things Are
Fahrenheit 451
The Color Purple
Hamlet
The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Gray