This is a list of 100 Books By Black Women that Everyone Must Read via For Harriet: celebrating the fullness of black womanhood. I love these kinds of lists of books I've never come across because it really reinforces just how important my #ReadingOnlyBooksWrittenByWomen policy is for me; that this is an essential part of my feminist activism.
Fighting cultural femicide is feminist activism. It may be a private act of activism but that doesn't make it any less valid.
These are the books I've already read from the list:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelous
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Small Island - A Novel by Andrea Levy
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Push: A Novel by Sapphire
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
In my ever-increasing pile of books to read for #ReadingOnlyBooksWrittenByWomen
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
On Black Sisters Street: A Novel by Chika Unigwe
Lots of the books on For Harriet's list, like most feminist texts, aren't available on Kindle. Please take 5 minutes to ask the publishers to republish these in an e-format so that more women have the chance to read these powerful and brilliant authors.
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