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James Baldwin's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 13 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by James Baldwin, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/james-baldwin-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Black Fire! Accounts of the Guerrilla War in Rhodesia

Michael Raeburn · Buy on Amazon

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry · Buy on Amazon

Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle

Michael Thelwell · Buy on Amazon

A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale · Buy on Amazon

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Louise Meriwether · Buy on Amazon

James Peck · Buy on Amazon

"The moral of the Freedom Ride story is that, however painful it may be for us to change, not to change will be fatal."

House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark Of Segregation

Ann Braden · Buy on Amazon

A Freedomways Reader: Afro-America in the Seventies

Jacqueline Ernest (editor) · Buy on Amazon

Memoirs of a Bastard Angel

Harold Norse · Buy on Amazon

Optics: The Mystical Poet’s Guide to the Science of Inner Sight

Vincent Gilliam · Buy on Amazon

Burn, Killer, Burn!

Paul Crump · Buy on Amazon

"Paul Crump is one of the few people alive – repeat: alive – for whom I have what can only be called an uncompromising respect. And he is a real writer. He has understood what he has endured, and, like a great blues singer, tells us of his sorrow and at the same time, stands outside it."

Charles Wright · Buy on Amazon

"A very beautiful job…And, no matter what the city fathers may say, this is New York, this is the way we live here now…Charles Wright is a terrific writer."

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