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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Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre Lorde

264 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions

Love Trilogy #1

bell hooks

267 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

224 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction education feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert A. Nemiroff, Margaret B. Wilkerson, Spike Lee

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Lorraine Hansberry, Robert A. Nemiroff, Margaret B. Wilkerson, Spike Lee

206 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Street, The Narrows by Ann Petry

The Street, The Narrows

Ann Petry

815 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction literary challenging reflective medium-paced
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

bell hooks

186 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

151 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

fiction classics play emotional reflective medium-paced
The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain by Suzanne Scafe, Stella Dadzie, Beverley Bryan

The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain

Suzanne Scafe, Stella Dadzie, Beverley Bryan

304 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Corregidora

Gayl Jones

192 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad medium-paced