Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Books to Read by Black Female Authors

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Some of My Best Friends by Tajja Isen
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The 1619 Project by Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Luster by Raven Leilani
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson (1859)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
A Voice From the South: By a Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper (1892)
Iola Leroy by Frances Harper (1892)
The Red Record by Ida B. Wells (1895)
There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset (1924)
Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)
Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston (1938)
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston (1939)
The Street by Ann Petry (1946)
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (1959)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks (1963)
Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy (1964)
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (1966)
The Flagellants by Carlene Hatcher Polite (1967)
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (1968)
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1968)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words by Lorraine Hansberry (1969)
The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara (1970)
We a BaddDDD People by Sonia Sanchez (1970)
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker (1970)
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara (1972)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
Oreo by Fran Ross (1974)
Corregidora by Gayl Jones (1975)
Eva’s Man by Gayl Jones (1976)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (1976)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1976)
Meridian by Alice Walker (1976)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez (1978)
Black Macho and the Myth of the Black Superwoman by Michele Wallace (1979)
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara (1980)
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (1981)
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis (1981)
Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks (1981)
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (1982)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (1982)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (1982)
Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntozake Shange (1982)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
Fish Tales by Nettie Jones (1983)
Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith (1983)
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker (1983)
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings (1984)
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984)
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (1985)
Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art by Sylvia Ardyn Boone (1986)
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (1986)
Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks (1987)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Assata by Assata Shakur (1988)
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and About Black Women edited by Mary Helen Washington (1989)
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace (1990)
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan (1992)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
Ugly Ways by Tina McElroy Ansa (1993)
The Black Christ by Kelly Brown Douglas (1994)
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1995 by Nikki Giovanni (1996)
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts (1997)
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (1998)
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class by Mary Pattillo-McCoy (1999)
Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks (2000)
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (2001)
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby (2003)
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (2005)
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles (2005)
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (2006)
African American Music: An Introduction by Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby (2006)
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830–1900 by Martha S. Jones (2007)
Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy (2007)
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (2008)
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (2008)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (2010)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011)
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser (2012)
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions by Vilna Bashi Treitler (2013)
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, and Love Affairs by Pearl Cleage (2014)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014)
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (2015)
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (2015)
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique W. Morris (2015)
Sweat by Lynn Nottage (2015)
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice by Carla Shedd (2015)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (2016)
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins (2016)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis, edited by Frank Barat (2016)
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper (2017)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2017)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2018)
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin (2019)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (2019)
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker (2019)

(list compiled with the help of Bishop, Natalia, and articles in MarieClaire - BooksAndBao - Zora.Medium)

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