What to Read After Platitudes
Readers who loved Platitudes by Trey Ellis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Platitudes 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 Platitudes
Erasure
The Well
Zeely
Harlem Summer
Oxherding tale
The ecstatic, or, Homunculus
Linden Hills
Blues For Mister Charlie
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
Texaco
Now Voyager
Keeper of the house
The white boy shuffle
The intuitionist
Push
Kindred
Why not me?
The Bluest Eye
Middlesex
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Americanah
Eat, Pray, Love
Water for Elephants
An Abundance of Katherines