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24 titles for readers of Miles by Miles Davis, selected for shared themes: African American & Black Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Ethnic Studies, and Music.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Miles.

Sing for Your Life A Story of Race, Music, and Family — Daniel Bergner

Sing for Your Life A Story of Race, Music, and Family

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

It’s No Secret From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal–a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All — Carmen Bryan

It’s No Secret From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal–a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Hattie McDaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood — Jill Watts

Hattie McDaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe — Stephon Alexander

The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

From Scratch A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home — Tembi Locke

From Scratch A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Softly, With Feeling Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music — Edward Berger

Softly, With Feeling Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Songs of the Unsung The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott — Horace Tapscott

Songs of the Unsung The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott

Horace Tapscott

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Hidden History of Mississippi Blues — Roger Stolle

Hidden History of Mississippi Blues

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Hollywood Black The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers — Donald Bogle

Hollywood Black The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

F*ck Your Diet And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me — Chloé Hilliard

F*ck Your Diet And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

Chloé Hilliard

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl — Issa Rae

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Black Privilege Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It — Charlamagne Tha God

Black Privilege Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

Charlamagne Tha God

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Agent Josephine American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy — Damien Lewis

Agent Josephine American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Sammy An Autobiography : with Material Newly Revised from Yes I Can and Why Me? — Sammy Davis (Jr.)

Sammy An Autobiography : with Material Newly Revised from Yes I Can and Why Me?

Sammy Davis (Jr.)

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Shattered Fragments of a Black Life — Matthieu Chapman

Shattered Fragments of a Black Life

Matthieu Chapman

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Bowery Life (1904) — Chuck Connors

Bowery Life (1904)

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema — Barbara Tepa Lupack

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema

Barbara Tepa Lupack

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Every Step a Struggle Interviews with Seven who Shaped the African-American Image in Movies — Frank Manchel

Every Step a Struggle Interviews with Seven who Shaped the African-American Image in Movies

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Dorothy Dandridge A Biography — Donald Bogle

Dorothy Dandridge A Biography

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

The Wind at My Back Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson — Misty Copeland

The Wind at My Back Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Ethnic Studies

Kennedy’s Blues African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK — Guido van Rijn

Kennedy’s Blues African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • Music

A Call to Assembly An American Success Story — Willie Ruff

A Call to Assembly An American Success Story

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • Music

Bebop The Music and Its Players — Thomas Owens

Bebop The Music and Its Players

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • Music

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay — Ronin Ro

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • Music

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Miles by Miles Davis. Connected by African American & Black Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Ethnic Studies. Authors featured include Daniel Bergner, Carmen Bryan, Jill Watts, Stephon Alexander, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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