What to Read After Sonny's blues
Readers who loved Sonny's blues by James Baldwin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sonny's blues 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 Sonny's blues
A good man is hard to find
Everyday use
A clean well-lighted place
Where are you going, where have you been?
The rocking-horse winner
"Sweat" (Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.).)
A Rose for Emily
Going to Meet the Man
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Tell me how long the train's been gone
Another Country
Nobody Knows My Name
Notes of a Native Son
Young Goodman Brown
To Build a Fire
Go Tell It on the Mountain
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka Series)
Cathedral
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Just Above My Head
The fire next time
The necklace and other short stories