What to Read After Life Upon These Shores
Readers who loved Life Upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Life Upon These Shores 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 Life Upon These Shores
Red summer
History of Africa
The making of African America
The Slave Ship
Bound for Canaan
Brown v. Board of Education
White over black
Assassination of Fred Hampton
Black prophetic fire
The Klan unmasked
Without sanctuary
Soul on Ice
Race Matters
The mis-education of the Negro
Cane
Notes of a Native Son
Up from Slavery
The fire next time
The New Jim Crow
The coldest winter ever
The Audacity of Hope
Kindred
Invisible Man
The Witches