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15 books

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

64 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction play poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

339 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional sad medium-paced
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

302 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction historical emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Watchmen by Alan Moore

Watchmen

Watchmen #1-12

Alan Moore

416 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction classics comics dystopian graphic novel speculative fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

272 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

531 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

A Girl is a Body of Water

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

560 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

268 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning

The Sixth World #1

Rebecca Roanhorse

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction dystopian fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced