What to Read After Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Readers who loved Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour 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 Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Malcolm X
Black Power
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement
Race, reform and rebellion
The Man Who Cried I Am
Local people
Hands on the freedom plow
There goes my everything
Hammer and hoe
The Cross of Redemption
Pillar of Fire
Freedom Summer
Time on two crosses
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
At Canaan's Edge
Cold War Civil Rights
Negroes with Guns
Stokely speaks
Race Rebels
I've Got the Light of Freedom
We Will Shoot Back
Martin & Malcolm & America
The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it
Slavery by another name