Recommended by Sean Lahman, and 1 others. See all reviews
Ranked #23 in 2019, Ranked #29 in Black Author — see more rankings.
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his... more
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his... more
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Sean Lahman @DanTelvock Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The MVP Machine is a great book about what’s happening in baseball. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Nickel Boys is ranked in the following categories:
- #29 in African American
- #98 in Americana
- #97 in Author
- #74 in Buzzfeed
- #96 in Corruption
- #48 in NPR
- #93 in New York Times Bestseller
- #30 in Prison
- #52 in Pulitzer Prize
- #44 in Racism