Read-alikes and related books

Books like March

Readers who finished March by John Lewis and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Race & Ethnic Relations, and Civil Rights.

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Top related books to March

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Silence of Our Friends

Mark Long

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Race & Ethnic Relations

Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Race & Ethnic Relations

The Talk

Darrin Bell

Themes: Biography & Memoir • Nonfiction • Race & Ethnic Relations

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

Walking with the Wind A Memoir of the Movement

John Lewis

Themes: Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Devil You Know A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

Path to Grace Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

Ethel Morgan Smith

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#10

Writing History from the Margins African Americans and the Quest for Freedom

Claire Parfait

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#11

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Nikki Brown

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#12

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots A Black Doctor’s Civil Rights Struggle

Gilbert R. Mason

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#13

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#14

King’s Dream

Eric J. Sundquist

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#15

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#16

We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#17

On Becoming an American Writer Essays & Nonfiction

James Alan McPherson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#18

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community

Marc Schneier

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#19

Remembering Jim Crow African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South

William H. Chafe

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#20

Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#21

Die, Nigger, Die! A Political Autobiography

Jamil Al-Amin

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#22

The Barn The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism

Wright Thompson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#23

Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C. Activism & Education in Logan Circle

Ida Jones

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#24

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for March by John Lewis — spanning Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Race & Ethnic Relations and featuring authors such as Mark Long, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, Darrin Bell, Andrea Davis Pinkney, and others.