What to Read After Blues people
Readers who loved Blues people by Amiri Baraka keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Blues people 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 Blues people
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Beneath the underdog
Can't stop, won't stop
Thelonious Monk
Space is the place
Sweet soul music
The land where the blues began
Hip Hop Matters
Lush Life
Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks
R. Crumb's heroes of blues, jazz, & country
The history of jazz
The history of the blues
Deep blues
Lady sings the blues
The Souls of Black Folk
I put a spell on you
Stomping the blues
A change is gonna come
Hip hop America
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader
Dutchman and The Slave
Malcolm X Speaks
Sisters of the Yam