What to Read After The Blacks
Readers who loved The Blacks by Jean Genet keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Blacks 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 Blacks
The Baltimore waltz and other plays
The Red Letter Plays
Colored Museum
The Collected Last Plays
The Theatre of the Absurd
La Cantatrice Chauve
Le Diable Et Le Bon Dieu
Saint Genet, actor & martyr
Madwoman of Chaillot
Blood wedding ; and, Yerma
Jumpers
My children! My Africa!
La Place
Miracle of the Rose
Querelle de Brest
Our Lady of the Flowers
Reprieve
The Theater and its Double
Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility)
Ubu Roi
Alcools
Mythologies
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion