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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

The Monsters We Defy

The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

Colored Television

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Seven Days in June

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Fat Off, Fat On

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness

the new black

Holler, Child: Stories

Duende

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Let Us Descend

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

The Reformatory

One Blood

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Leslie F*cking Jones

The Davenports

Another Brooklyn

Breaking the Maafa Chain

The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

Leading Well: A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies

The Living is Easy

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Hangman

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

House Woman

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora

Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

I Am Ayah: The Way Home

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Belonging: A Culture of Place

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Black Designers in American Fashion

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Memphis

Ordinary Notes

Muse Found in a Colonized Body

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

An Autobiography of Skin: A Novel

The Color Line

Spectra

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Black Futures

Homegirls and Handgrenades

Black Women Writers at Work

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

Ain’t I a Woman?

Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices

Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

No One Is Coming to Save Us

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Call Us What We Carry

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women

On Juneteenth

Finding Me

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

The Talking Drum

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

Pride

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Walking with the Muses: A Memoir

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

That’s the Way It Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis

An American Marriage

Silver Sparrow

Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Magical Negro

Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

The Women of Brewster Place

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

Adweek – August 2020

Vanity Fair – Sept 2020

Luster

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

African American Women of the Old West

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

For Black Girls Like Me

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World

An Act of Defiance

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

Some Places More Than Others

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

Jubilee

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

The Secret Women

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

The Boyfriend Project

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

The Wind Done Gone

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

The Street

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Mothers

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign

What We Lose

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story