The Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge - hosted by emilyhays

A memoir or autobiography
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir middle grade poetry race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

Akwaeke Emezi

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Negroland by Margo Jefferson

Negroland

Margo Jefferson

248 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir self help funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

Gabrielle Union

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

Phoebe Robinson

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

Sesali Bowen

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

Phoebe Robinson

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

320 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced