What to Read After The Warmth of Other Suns
Readers who loved The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Warmth of Other Suns 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 Warmth of Other Suns
Slavery by another name
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sundown Towns
The Promised Land
Miss Anne In Harlem The White Women Of The Black Renaissance
Freedom's Daughters
The twelve tribes of Hattie
The round house
Silver sparrow
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day--
Behind the beautiful forevers
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
In the garden of beasts
Cane River
Zeitoun
At the dark end of the street
Pillar of Fire
There is power in a union
Salvage the Bones
The New Jim Crow
Cutting for Stone
Breath, Eyes, Memory
The Underground Railroad
Your blues ain't like mine