What to Read After Manchild in the promised land
Readers who loved Manchild in the promised land by Claude Brown keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Manchild in the promised land 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 Manchild in the promised land
Soul on Ice
Nigger
The mis-education of the Negro
Black Boy
Notes of a Native Son
In search of satisfaction
Before the Mayflower
A Taste of Power
Dust tracks on a road
Down These Mean Streets
Black like me
When and where I enter
The best of Simple
The Outsider
Why We Can't Wait
Race Matters
Disappearing acts
Your blues ain't like mine
Mama
Malcolm X Speaks
Assata
Up from Slavery
And this too shall pass
A child of the century