What to Read After My People
Readers who loved My People by Langston Hughes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where My People 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 My People
Bad News for Outlaws
Happy to Be Nappy
Crossing Bok Chitto
Wynken, Blynken, & Nod.
Sam and the Tigers.
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
Ellington Was Not a Street with Hardcover Book(s)
The Black Snowman
Here's a Little Poem
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk
Shades of People
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry
We Are the Ship
Locomotion
A Sweet Smell of Roses
Jimi
Sojourner Truths Step-Stomp Stride
Beautiful Blackbird
Shades of Black
My name is Jason. Mine too
Uptown (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
Dave, the Potter
Becoming Billie Holiday