What to Read After John Brown
Readers who loved John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where John Brown 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 John Brown
The Fires of Jubilee
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself
The CounterRevolution of 1776
The Negro's Civil War
Let the Trumpet Sound
Sojourner Truth
Old Rosa
John Brown, Abolitionist
Behind the scenes. By Elizabeth Keckley. Or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.
The American slave coast
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s
Pendaison D'Angélique
Forever Free
Harriet Tubman
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
Banjo
The Souls of Black Folk
Assata
Up from Slavery
Black Boy
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl