What to Read After Coal
Readers who loved Coal by Audre Lorde keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Coal 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 Coal
On the bus with Rosa Parks
Blessing the Boats
Ceremonies
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
Poems Between Women
Open Me Carefully
The Black Unicorn
Black Feminist Thought
Sister Outsider
The wild iris
Zami, a new spelling of my name
Feminism Is for Everybody
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Stone Butch Blues
Poems
The Stone Diaries
Citizen
The Woman Warrior
Drown
The lover
Collected Poems
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Howl, and Other Poems
The Bluest Eye