What to Read After Twelve Years a Slave
Readers who loved Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Twelve Years a Slave 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 Twelve Years a Slave
Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Invention of Wings
Orphan Train
Crusade for Justice
Sundown Towns
Inhuman Bondage
The strange career of Jim Crow
Shadows of the Workhouse
While the World Watched
The Slave Ship
Lost Prophet
Internal Enemy
Soul by Soul
American slavery, American freedom
Ida
Go Set A Watchman
The twelve tribes of Hattie
The House Girl
Life After Life
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Unbroken
Killing Lincoln
The Underground Railroad
And the Mountains Echoed