What to Read After leadbelly
Readers who loved leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where leadbelly 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 leadbelly
Blood dazzler
Becoming the Villainess
Sleeping With the Dictionary
American Sublime
father
Morning haiku
The country between us
Songs of experience
Against forgetting
Thomas and Beulah
The dream of the unified field
The wild iris
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
The Practice of Poetry
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Satan says
Averno
Diving into the Wreck
The City in Which I Love You
The Poet's Companion
Krik? Krak!
Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)
The complete poems, 1927-1979
Loose Woman