#20BooksByBlackFolx Challenge 2023 - hosted by melanatedreader

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This challenge is a reading challenge hosted by @Melanatedreader on all platforms… this one is inclusive to all Black writers! This includes Women, Men, and Non-Binary persons! Please use the hashtag in all posts online! 
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Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander
Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
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Kwame Alexander

Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Kwame Alexander

missing duration info • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry race emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga

Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga

224 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt

Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

Tessa McWatt

260 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Beautiful & Dirty by Katrina Jackson

Beautiful & Dirty

The Family #1

Katrina Jackson

68 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance lighthearted fast-paced
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

5 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

She Would Be King

Wayétu Moore

294 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical magical realism adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced
Her Christmas Wish: A Sweet Heat Holiday Novella by Karmen Lee

Her Christmas Wish: A Sweet Heat Holiday Novella

Karmen Lee

85 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction romance emotional reflective slow-paced
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: 1911 by August Wilson

Joe Turner's Come and Gone: 1911

The Century Cycle #2

August Wilson

86 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction play challenging reflective sad medium-paced
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

220 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative medium-paced