What to Read After Cane
Readers who loved Cane by Jean Toomer keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Cane 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 Cane
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Quicksand ; and, Passing
The ways of white folks
In our time
Corregidora
Mumbo Jumbo
Go Down, Moses
The blacker the berry ...
Marrow of Tradition
Home to Harlem
Passing
The new Negro
Black no more
Mules and Men (P.S.)
The Street
Quicksand
Maud Martha
The Springs of Affection
Plum bun
I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive
Dust tracks on a road
Mama Day
Absalom, Absalom!
The Souls of Black Folk