What to Read After Day of Tears
Readers who loved Day of Tears by Julius Lester keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Day of Tears 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 Day of Tears
Elijah of Buxton
Copper sun
Bronx Masquerade
We Are the Ship
Becoming Billie Holiday
Ellington Was Not a Street with Hardcover Book(s)
Revolution is not a dinner party
Bad News for Outlaws
The rock and the river
January's Sparrow
Chains
Fever 1793
Esperanza Rising
The Color of Earth
The wall
The first part last
Breaking Through
Sunny side up
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Nightjohn
They called themselves the K.K.K.
Uprising
Charles and Emma
Inexcusable