What to Read After The Signifying Monkey
Readers who loved The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Signifying Monkey 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 Signifying Monkey
The Intuitionist
Is Marriage for White People?
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Black Indians
PowerNomics
Rosa Lee
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Philadelphia Fire
Playing in the Dark
Black No More
The Cross of Redemption
Clotel
African Holistic Health
The Cornel West reader
The Langston Hughes Reader
Inside a Thug's Heart
Sport of the Gods (American Negro : His History & Literature Series 2)
Banana Bottom (The Black Classic Series from X Press)
There Is Confusion
Instinct
Texts and Contexts
Eight Men
Hip Hop Matters