Black Woman's Must-Read List
"This Caldecott Medal-winning African tale evokes the Cinderella story, as well as the traditional theme of good triumphing over evil. Readers will identify with the kind, patient Nyasha, while delighting in the fate met by the evil sister, Manyara."
2. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
5. Kindred by Octavia Butler
6. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
8. Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women by Jonetta Rose Barras
9. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by Bell Hooks
10. Daughter by Asha Bandele
11. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
14. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
15. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
16. A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-To Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life by Demetria L. Lucas
17. Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits by Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy
18. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
19. Fervent by Priscilla Shirer
20. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
21. The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women by Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean
22. All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life by Debrena Jackson Gandy
23. Waiting to Exhale by Terri McMillan
24. The Street by Ann Petry
25. Various Works by Audre Lorde including:
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
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