What to Read After Ceremonies
Readers who loved Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ceremonies 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 Ceremonies
God's Trombones
The motion of light in water
In Another Place, Not Here
Tales of Nevèrÿon
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)
Black feeling, Black talk, Black judgement
Wrong
Close to the Knives
Rain God
No Language Is Neutral
The Black poets
Koolaids
The amen corner
Eminent outlaws
The dream police
Coal
Complete writings
Drowning in Fire
A queer history of the United States
Modern nature
Sister Outsider
Stone Butch Blues
Sula
Push