LIST OF 50 BOOKS EVERY BLACK WOMAN SHOULD READ (1820 hits)
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 3. Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry 4. The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson 5. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson 6. Cane by Jean Toomer 7. The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele 8. Krik? Krak? by Edwidge Danticat 9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 10. The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman 11. Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman 12. Black Bourgeoise by E. Franklin Frazier 13. Jubilee by Margaret Walker 14. Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed 15. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 16. Kindred by Octavia Butler 17. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant 18. In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper 19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 20. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 21. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines 22. Black Betty by Walter Mosley 23. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks 24. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 25. for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is not enuf by Ntozake Shange 26. Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace 27. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 28. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois 29. The Street by Ann Petry 30. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor 31. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall 32. This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga 33. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde 34. Waiting to Exhale by Terri McMillan 35. Native Son by Richard Wright 36. Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell 37. Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta 38. We a BaddDDD People by Sonia Sanchez 39. The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes 40. Fences by August Wilson 41. The Debt by Randall Robinson 42. Conversations With God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African-Americans by James Melvin Washington 43. The Little Black Book of Success by Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda Joy McLean and Marsha Haygood 44. Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks 45. Why I Love Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson 46. The Wedding by Dorothy West 47. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan 48. Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone 49. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage 50. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
I first read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" when I was about 16, later it was one of the books my English teacher required the class to read in my freshmen year of college, and it is one book I never get tired of re-reading.
Another excellent book is "Whispers from Cotton Tree Root" which is a collection of short stories from Caribbean fiction writers, edited by Nalo Hopkinson.
I will be adding more books to this list as I see fit and you and others are free to add on as well. Be Blessed Sister!
Sunday, November 11th 2012 at 2:45PM
Siebra Muhammad
this is a good list these books should appeal to brothers AND sisters!!!
Monday, November 12th 2012 at 8:03PM
Truth B. Told
