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174 reviews

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

4.5

Some of the spiritual aspects were not applicable or valuable to me, but so many profound conversations offered here regardless!

Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration by Sheila Wise Rowe

3.0

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

slow-paced

4.0

A beautiful blend of fiction and history. I see why it is on all of rec list’s of 2025. This book has inspired me to read all of the classic authors that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance!

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

slow-paced

3.0

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

Required reading. I wish there was more engagement with beauty standard formation in the mediated world, but this is a needed, intersectional study of beauty/body formation.

Becoming the Pastor's Wife by Beth Allison Barr

3.75

Don't Cry for Me: A Novel by Daniel Black

challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

5.0

beautiful and heartbreaking. read it.

The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Stunning!

Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal by Esau McCaulley

informative slow-paced

3.5

ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain by Tracy Otsuka

3.5

not perfect and FULL of privilege,  but there are some helpful tips for Type A, go getter women. If you’re more inattentive, there’s not much here for you.