Beyoncé Reading Challenge - hosted by coralinejones

BROWN SKIN GIRL — black women
books by black women that feature black women as the main characters! — "she need an oscar for that pretty dark skin."
All books added
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

288 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

This Could Be Us

Skyland #2

Kennedy Ryan

416 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Before I Let Go

Skyland #1

Kennedy Ryan

391 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana

Lore of the Wilds

Lore of the Wilds Duology #1

Analeigh Sbrana

335 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy romance adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth #1

N.K. Jemisin

498 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Sisters with a Side of Greens by Michelle Stimpson

Sisters with a Side of Greens

Michelle Stimpson

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction emotional reflective medium-paced
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris B. Hill

192 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry race emotional reflective medium-paced
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
One Week in Paradise by Anise Starre

One Week in Paradise

Flights and Feelings #1

Anise Starre

222 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction romance funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

216 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced