What to Read After The Souls of Black Folk
Readers who loved The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Souls of Black Folk 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 The Souls of Black Folk
Race Matters
The mis-education of the Negro
My bondage and my freedom
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Up from Slavery
Black Boy
The fire next time
Freedom dreams
How capitalism underdeveloped black America
Soul on Ice
Assata
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
The Women Of Brewster Place
Nigger
Disappearing acts
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Notes of a Native Son
Tar Baby
Native Son
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Your blues ain't like mine
Manchild in the promised land
Cane
Narrative of Sojourner Truth