What to Read After Hair Story
Readers who loved Hair Story by Ayana Byrd keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Hair Story 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 Hair Story
The mis-education of the Negro
Prisoner's Wife
When and Where I Enter
Our Kind of People
Brainwashed
Is Marriage for White People?
Black Girl in Paris
The Science of Black Hair
The Color Complex
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Black Sexual Politics
Better Than Good Hair
How capitalism underdeveloped black America
Before the Mayflower
Caucasia
The Power of Premonitions
Conversations with Octavia Butler
African Origin of Civilisation
The $40 Million Slaves
Erotique Noire Black Erotica
Telling Memories Among Southern Women
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost