What to Read After Soul by Soul
Readers who loved Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Soul by Soul 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 Soul by Soul
Race and Reunion
Reconstruction
Many thousands gone
Roll, Jordan, Roll
American slavery, American freedom
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Been in the storm so long
A nation under our feet
Impossible Subjects
Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs
Gender and Jim Crow
Ar'n't I a woman?
Inhuman bondage
Whiteness of a Different Color
City of women
Mothers of Invention
I've Got the Light of Freedom
Scraping by
To 'Joy My Freedom
The Slave Ship
Race Rebels
What this cruel war was over
The peculiar institution
Black Culture and Black Consciousness