What to Read After The new Negro
Readers who loved The new Negro by Alain LeRoy Locke keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The new Negro 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 new Negro
Cane
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Ways of White Folks
Mules and Men (P.S.)
Home to Harlem
Quicksand
Black No More
Not Without Laughter
When Harlem was in vogue
Wrapped in Rainbows
Nigger Heaven
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Harlem Renaissance
Book of American Negro Poetry
God's Trombones
Mule Bone
Paris Noir
The Souls of Black Folk
Passing
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
When and Where I Enter
Complete Fiction
The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Weary Blues