What to Read After Tuff
Readers who loved Tuff by Paul Beatty keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tuff 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 Tuff
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Slumberland
Tell me how long the train's been gone
Apex hides the hurt
The white boy shuffle
People in trouble
Hip hop America
John Henry Days
A soldier's play
Black no more
The Sellout
Drown
The Autograph Man
Clay's ark
The intuitionist
The portable Dorothy Parker
My soul to keep
Mind of my mind
Krik? Krak!
On Beauty
Your blues ain't like mine
Malcolm X
Parable of the Talents
White Teeth