What to Read After Body and Soul
Readers who loved Body and Soul by Alondra Nelson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Body and Soul 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 Body and Soul
Scenes of Subjection
Black Against Empire
Sisters in the Struggle
To Die for the People
Medicine Stories
Freedom Dreams
Birthing a Slave
Agents of Repression
Black Marxism
From a Native Daughter
Lose Your Mother
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Nobody Knows My Name
We Will Shoot Back
Medical Apartheid
Here I Stand.
Death Blossoms
The Burning
Punished
The falsification of Afrikan consciousness
A Shining Thread of Hope
Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Queering the Color Line