What to Read After Native Son
Readers who loved Native Son by Richard Wright keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Native Son 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 Native Son
Invisible Man
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Jungle
Beloved
Black Boy
Song of Solomon
The Women Of Brewster Place
Tar Baby
The Souls of Black Folk
Disappearing acts
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
The Bluest Eye
As I Lay Dying
A Raisin in the Sun
A Lesson Before Dying
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Sula
The ways of white folks
Henderson, the rain king
Dog soldiers.
Falconer
Dance to the Music of Time
Call It Sleep