What to Read After Shadow and act
Readers who loved Shadow and act by Ralph Ellison keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Shadow and act 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 Shadow and act
Notes of a Native Son
Playing in the dark
The fire next time
Nobody Knows My Name
Not without laughter
Create dangerously
The big sea
Black Boy
The taming of chance
The nature and destiny of man
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Gorilla, my love.
Religion and the rise of capitalism
Gorilla, my love
The liberal imagination
The Rise of the West
Vermeer
Juneteenth
The new Negro
Selected poems
The Outsider
Going to Meet the Man
The blacker the berry ...
Revolutionary suicide