What to Read After The Street
Readers who loved The Street by Ann Lane Petry keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Street 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 Street
The Women Of Brewster Place
Mama Day
Brown girl, brownstones.
Corregidora
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
A Gathering of Old Men
The blacker the berry ...
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Maud Martha
Plum bun
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Living Is Easy
Sugar
Quicksand ; and, Passing
Cane
Some love, some pain, sometime
Your blues ain't like mine
In search of satisfaction
Bailey's Cafe
Daddy Was a Number Runner
The third life of Grange Copeland
King of the Hill
Complete Fiction
Praisesong for the widow