What to Read After Growing Up X
Readers who loved Growing Up X by Ilyasah Shabazz keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Growing Up X 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 Growing Up X
James Baldwin
Negro with a Hat
Brothers and Keepers
Damballah
The Long Dream
Voice from the South
A Visitation of Spirits
To Die for the People
Ida
Crazy Salad
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
Prisoner's Wife
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Whoreson
Child of God
Gal
Dopefiend
All God's children need traveling shoes
True You
Jonah's Gourd Vine
No Disrespect
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Soul on Ice
Abide with me