I have been curating this list over the last few years. Honestly, this is not all of it. I could not list each and every book without this going on and on for days. Here is a snippet. Let me know in the comments which ones you’ve read already.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab

They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

Wahala by Nikki May

Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

Sex, Lies, and Sensibilities by Nikki Payne (Coming in Feb. 2024)

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

Holier Than Thou by Jackie Hill Perry

Unapologetically Ambitious by Shellye Archambeau

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

The Power of God's Names By Tony Evans

The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett et al.

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

A Promised Land by President Barack Obama

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish

Pride Prejudice & Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown

The Secret Women by Sheila Williams

Sister, Mother, Warrior by Vanessa Riley

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Home Going by Yaa Gyasi