What to Read After Harlem Renaissance
Readers who loved Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Harlem Renaissance 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 Harlem Renaissance
A Literature of Their Own
The Female Malady
"Sweat" (Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.).)
The new Negro
Banjo
Home to Harlem
Island beneath the sea
A Change Is Gonna Come
When Harlem was in vogue
Collected Novellas
The Buried Mirror
The Women Of Brewster Place
Another Country
Race, Reform and Rebellion
Plum bun
The Promised Land
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
Jazz
Poems
Assata
Sula
The Souls of Black Folk
Song of Solomon