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James Baldwin Recommended Reading

Search in the library catalog under the following heading to locate books. 

Baldwin, James

Essays
A Talk to Teachers
No Name in the Street
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes From a Native Son (1961)
Notes of a Native Son
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
The Devil Finds Work
The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Novels
Another Country
Giovanni's Room
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Going to Meet the man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Above My Head

Nobody Knows My Name
The Fire Next Time
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Plays
Blues for Mister Charlie
The Amen Corner

Poems
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

Short Stories
Come Out the Wilderness
Going to Meet the Man
Previous Condition
Sonny's Blues

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
The Man Child
The Outing

Books at Capital

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