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
The Black poets
The Motion of Light in Water
Tales of Nevèrÿon
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)
Black feeling, Black talk, Black judgement
Wrong
Rain God
No Language Is Neutral
Koolaids
God's Trombones
In Another Place, Not Here
Complete Writings
A queer history of the United States
Drowning in Fire
Eminent Outlaws
Coal
The Amen Corner
The Dream Police
Sister Outsider
Stone Butch Blues
Sula
Push
Girl, Interrupted
The Color Purple