What to Read After Parting the Waters
Readers who loved Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Parting the Waters 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 Parting the Waters
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
No Ordinary Time
Reconstruction
Bearing the Cross
Devil in the Grove
Eyes on the Prize
Been in the Storm So Long
The Children
Pillar of Fire
Lost Prophet
Common Ground
Let the Trumpet Sound
At Canaan's Edge
A Bright Shining Lie
Means of Ascent
The Dred Scott Case
The strange career of Jim Crow
A Nation Under Our Feet
The Path To Power
Truman
The Passage of Power
Lincoln at Gettysburg
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nixonland