The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge 2023 - hosted by readingintothevoid

A vintage Black Feminist or Womanist text (published before 2000)
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

80 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction play poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Ntozake Shange

224 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

fiction feminism adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

192 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down

Alice Walker

176 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

bell hooks

200 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race self help challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

390 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

258 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography

Audre Lorde

272 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

bell hooks

180 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced