What to Read After God's Trombones
Readers who loved God's Trombones by James Johnson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where God's Trombones 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 God's Trombones
The Country Without a Post Office
The new Negro
Poetry for Young People
Selected poems
Ceremonies
The Negro speaks of rivers
Lion's Paw
The amen corner
The big sea
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The ways of white folks
Cane
The Souls of Black Folk
Up from Slavery
The Power of Myth
Black like me
Sula
Invisible Man
Song of Solomon
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
The Wind in the Willows
Kindred
The Things They Carried
Anthem