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
Negro with a Hat
Brothers and keepers
James Baldwin
Crazy salad
Ida
Damballah
The long dream
A visitation of spirits
To Die for the People
When chickenheads come home to roost
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Whoreson
Gal
Dopefiend
All God's children need traveling shoes
True You
Jonah's Gourd Vine
No disrespect
Soul on Ice
Abide with me
Black Girl Lost
Somebody's gotta be on top
Shame on It All
Little Black Girl Lost