What to Read After To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Readers who loved To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where To Be Young, Gifted and Black 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 To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Manchild in the Promised Land
Nigger
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
Dust Tracks on a Road
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gorilla, My Love.
The best of Simple
When and Where I Enter
Going to Meet the Man
The Ways of White Folks
The Outsider
But Some of Us Are Brave
Wrapped in Rainbows
If Beale Street Could Talk
Juneteenth
James Baldwin
Before the Mayflower
Shadow and act
The big sea
Soul on Ice
The Wedding
The mis-education of the Negro
All God's children need traveling shoes
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement