Greetings Family! We wanted to take a moment to share a compiled list of our favorite books filled with Womanist thought to nurture the minds and spirits of Black Women and Girls everywhere. Enjoy!
Autobiographies, Memoirs, and other Nonfiction:
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Angela Davis: An Autobiography – Angela Davis
Assata: Autobiography – Assata Shakur
Incidents In THe Life Of A Slave Girl – Harriet A. Jacobs
Free Cyntoia by Cyntoia Brown-Long
American Cocktail – Anita Reynolds
Unhinged – Omarosa Manigault Newman
Finding My Voice – Valerie Jarrett
Barracoon – Zora Neale Hurston
All About Love – bell hooks
The Homeschool Alternative – Dr. Myesha Taylor & Haley Taylor Schultz
Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Davis
So You Want To Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Black Feminism
Critical Race Theory – Kimberle Crenshaw
Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall
Dear Ijeawele – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Naked – Ayana Byrd
On Intersectionality – Kimberle Crenshaw
Well-Read Black Girl – Glory Edim
When Chickenheads COme Home to Roost – Joan Morgan
Seeing Race Again – Edited by: Kimberle Crenshaw, Luke Harris, Daniel Hosang, George Lipsitz
Poetry
Cotton – Najya Williams
A Psalm For Us – Reyna Biddy
Novels and Fiction
Half Of A Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lucy – Jamaica Kincaid
Kindred – Octavia Butler
Queen – Candice Carty-Williams
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted – Jayne Allen
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Their Eyes Are Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston