Required reading: Luke Cage
Every book seen in Luke Cage, in order of appearance.
Black Folktales
Julius Lester, 1969Julius Lester's 1969 collection of African and African American folktales, illustrated by Tom Feelings.
Seen in S1 E1, Luke CageBuyInvisible Man
Ralph Ellison, 1952Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel won the National Book Award the next year, and it was the only novel he published in his lifetime.
Seen in S1 E1, Luke CageBuyAttica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
New York State Special Commission on Attica, 1972The New York State Special Commission on Attica released this report in 1972, a year after the four-day uprising.
Seen in S1 E1, Luke CageBuyOutliers
Malcolm Gladwell, 2008Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book is the one that made the 10,000-hour rule famous.
Seen in S1 E1, Luke CageBuyLittle Green
Walter Mosley, 2013The twelfth Easy Rawlins novel, published in 2013, opens with Easy coming back from the car crash that ended Blonde Faith.
Seen in S1 E2, Luke Cage and PopBuyCrime Partners
Donald Goines, 1974Donald Goines published Crime Partners in 1974 under the pen name Al C. Clark, and it introduced Kenyatta, a militant who goes to war with drug dealers and crooked cops.
Seen in S1 E2, Luke Cage and PopBuyThe 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene, 1998Robert Greene's 1998 book boils roughly three thousand years of court politics down to 48 rules, with Machiavelli and Sun Tzu along for the ride.
Seen in S1 E9, DiamondbackBuyThe Heat's On
Chester Himes, 1966Chester Himes published The Heat's On in 1966, one of his Harlem detective novels starring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, written while he was living in France.
Seen in S1 E13, US MarshalBuyCharcoal Joe
Walter Mosley, 2016Walter Mosley's 2016 novel is the fourteenth Easy Rawlins book, set in 1968 with Easy running a detective agency of his own.
Seen in S2 E1, Luke CageBuyBetween the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote it as a letter to his 15-year-old son, Samori, and it won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Seen in S2 E1, Luke CageBuyThe Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, 1970Toni Morrison published her first novel in 1970, while she was an editor at Random House raising two sons on her own.
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