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

A vintage Black Feminist or Womanist text (published before 2000)
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Passing by Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella Larsen

4 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 1929 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective tense medium-paced
The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn: Poems

Audre Lorde

136 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

289 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Unbought And Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm

Unbought And Unbossed

Shirley Chisholm

177 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics informative inspiring medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Angela Y. Davis

464 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history music informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed

Patternmaster #1

Octavia E. Butler

298 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction magical realism science fiction adventurous medium-paced
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Maryse Condé

225 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

6 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced