What to Read After Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Readers who loved Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone 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 Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
The Outsider
Nobody Knows My Name
Just Above My Head
Juneteenth
Gorilla, My Love.
Spook Who Sat by Door
Another Country
Love
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Complete Fiction
RL's Dream
Flying Home and Other Stories
Brown Girl, Brownstones.
The Temple of My Familiar.
Tar Baby
Tuff
The Ways of White Folks
Spunk
Incognegro
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Paradise
Blues For Mister Charlie
The Price of the Ticket
Sonny's Blues