What to Read After Assata
Readers who loved Assata by Assata Shakur keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Assata 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 Assata
Soul on Ice
A Taste of Power
Zami, a new spelling of my name
Nigger
Revolutionary suicide
Killing the black body
Freedom dreams
Crusade for Justice
The mis-education of the Negro
Manchild in the promised land
The Souls of Black Folk
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
The Women Of Brewster Place
Sister Outsider
Black Feminist Thought
Race Matters
Mama
Disappearing acts
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Your blues ain't like mine
No disrespect
The fire next time
Malcolm X
Sister citizen