James Baldwin

21 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 28 times in other books.

Books by James Baldwin

• The Fire Next Time (1963): mentioned in 5 books
• Another Country (1962): mentions 6 books, mentioned in 1 book
• If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
• A Question of Identity: mentioned in 1 book
• Alas, Poor Richard: mentioned in 1 book
• As Much Truth as One Can Bear: mentioned in 1 book
• Blues for Mister Charlie: mentioned in 1 book
• Everybody's Protest Novel: mentioned in 1 book
• Evidence of Things Not Seen: mentioned in 1 book
• Giovanni's Room: mentioned in 3 books
• Go Tell It on the Mountain: mentioned in 2 books
• Going to Meet the Man: mentioned in 1 book
• Nobody Knows My Name: mentioned in 1 book
• Notes for a Hypothetical Novel: mentioned in 1 book
• Notes of a Native Son: mentioned in 2 books
• Sonny's Blues: mentioned in 1 book
• The Harlem Ghetto: mentioned in 1 book
• The Outing: mentioned in 1 book
• The Rockpile: mentioned in 1 book
• The White Problem: mentioned in 1 book
• This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: mentioned in 1 book

Quotes from James Baldwin's books, and about them

• Another Country on The Possessed: “They've got some wild idea out there of making a movie version of The Possessed—The Dostoievski novel”
• Another Country on Crime and Punishment: “It's even been compared to Crime and Punishment—because they both have such a simple story line”
• Another Country on Romeo and Juliet: “'It'd be the biggest battle since the Civil War.' 'Or since Romeo and Juliet,' Belle suggested.”
• Another Country on Death in Venice: “I can't be sure that one fine day, I won't get all hung up on some boy—like that cat in Death In Venice.”
• Another Country on Victory: “Book Two epigraph — CONRAD, Victory”
• Another Country on Sonnet LXV: “Book Three epigraph — SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LXV”
• Americanah on The Fire Next Time: “he gave her a list of books. The Fire Next Time … She stood by the library shelf and skimmed the opening chapter, braced for boredom”
• On James Baldwin on The Fire Next Time: “Two years later, he published two long essays in a book with the title The Fire Next Time”
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness on The Fire Next Time: “the publisher is grateful for permission to reproduce an extract from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin”
• The Other Americans on The Fire Next Time: “I couldn't give up her copy of The Fire Next Time on my bedside table, the margins filled with notes”

Authors James Baldwin's books mention

• Fyodor Dostoevsky (2): Another Country mentions The Possessed, Crime and Punishment
• William Shakespeare (2): Another Country mentions Romeo and Juliet, Sonnet LXV
• Joseph Conrad (1): Another Country mentions Victory
• Thomas Mann (1): Another Country mentions Death in Venice

Authors who mention James Baldwin

• Colm Tóibín (19): On James Baldwin mentions The Fire Next Time, Another Country, A Question of Identity, Alas, Poor Richard, As Much Truth as One Can Bear, Everybody's Protest Novel, Evidence of Things Not Seen, Giovanni's Room, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Going to Meet the Man, Nobody Knows My Name, Notes for a Hypothetical Novel, Notes of a Native Son, Sonny's Blues, The Harlem Ghetto, The Outing, The Rockpile, The White Problem, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
• Arundhati Roy (1): The Ministry of Utmost Happiness mentions The Fire Next Time
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1): Americanah mentions The Fire Next Time
• Colson Whitehead (1): The Nickel Boys mentions Notes of a Native Son
• David Foster Wallace (1): Infinite Jest mentions Giovanni's Room
• Laila Lalami (1): The Other Americans mentions The Fire Next Time
• Larry McMurtry (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Marlon James (1): The Disappearers mentions Giovanni's Room
• Sally Rooney (1): Normal People mentions The Fire Next Time
• Susan Sontag (1): Against Interpretation and Other Essays mentions Blues for Mister Charlie