2024 Pocket Books Challenge - hosted by acarter

Black author in a genre you don't normally read
All books added
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The City We Became

Great Cities #1

N.K. Jemisin

437 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

640 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Open Wide the Freedom Gates by Dorothy Height

Open Wide the Freedom Gates

Dorothy Height

344 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative slow-paced
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

279 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Jamila Minnicks

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction historical literary
Wounded by Percival Everett

Wounded

Percival Everett

242 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

Roxane Gay

286 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

Come & Get It

Kiley Reid

386 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced