Here you’ll find my personal book list. Books I’m currently reading, books recommended, and discovered that I intend to collect. Learn and enjoy.

“Reading inspirational writing is an essential part of self-recovery. We are sustained by one another’s testimony when we find ourselves faltering or falling into despair.”

— Bell Hooks, Sisters of the Yam

 
 

Works written by Black women

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lourde

  • Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis

  • Sisters of the Yam by Bell Hooks

  • All About Love by Bell Hooks

  • Lilliths Brood by Octavia Butler

  • Fledgling by Octavia Butler

  • When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson Wesley

  • The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay

  • Crave Radiance by Elizabeth Alexander

  • Jambalaya by Luisah Teish

  • Cruelty by Ai

  • Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

  • Afrofuturism : The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Yatasha L. Womack