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
PowerNomics
Is Marriage for White People?
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Playing in the Dark
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Rosa Lee
The Cross of Redemption
Black Indians
Black No More
Clotel
Philadelphia Fire
African Holistic Health
Texts and Contexts
The Cornel West reader
The Langston Hughes Reader
Hip Hop Matters
Eight Men
Banana Bottom (The Black Classic Series from X Press)
Instinct
There Is Confusion
Inside a Thug's Heart
Sport of the Gods (American Negro : His History & Literature Series 2)