Books like White Girls

12 books to read next

• Black Boy Richard Wright 5.4 h
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 5.2 h
• The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou 5.1 h
• Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou 3.7 h
• Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward 6.0 h
• Mama Black Widow Iceberg Slim 5.7 h
• Well-read Black Girl Glory Edim 5.3 h
• Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 5.1 h
• Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam 6.2 h
• I Wonder as I Wander Langston Hughes 7.4 h
• The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, Cheryl A. Wall 29.9 h
• The Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 5.6 h

How long each takes

Black Boy Richard Wright 5.4 h I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 5.2 h The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou 5.1 h Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou 3.7 h Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward 6.0 h Mama Black Widow Iceberg Slim 5.7 h Well-read Black Girl Glory Edim 5.3 h Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 5.1 h Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam 6.2 h I Wonder as I Wander Langston Hughes 7.4 h The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, Cheryl A. Wall 29.9 h The Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 5.6 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.