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
Gorilla, My Love.
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
When and Where I Enter
The best of Simple
The Ways of White Folks
The Outsider
But Some of Us Are Brave
Wrapped in Rainbows
Juneteenth
James Baldwin
Before the Mayflower
The big sea
Shadow and act
Soul on Ice
The Wedding
The mis-education of the Negro
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement
The Women Who Raised Me
Soldier
Words of Fire