Reading List

TBR LIST OF 2026

Who's That Girl: A Memoir | Eve

The Voice in My Head is God | 2 Chainz

Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto | Shanita Hubbard 

Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl | Amena Brown

Black. Single. Mother. | Jamilah Lemieux

The Divorcetante | Mia Heintzelman

Vanessa Jared's Got a Man | LaQuette

If I Ruled The World | Amy DuBois Barnett 

All The Men I've Loved Again | Christine Pride

The Secret Crush Book Club | Karmen Lee

Maybe Next Time (Vegas Nights 1) | Christina C. Jones

Maybe This Time (Vegas Nights 2) | Christina C. Jones

Maybe One More Time (Vegas Nights 3) | Christina C. Jones

Big Girl Blitz | Danielle Allen

The Art of Loving You | Natasha Bishop

The Close-Up | Kennedy Ryan

Losin' Control | Ladii Nesha 

Heaux Phase | Netra Antionette

Don't Tell Me How it Ends | Adrienne Thurman

Captured by the Canadians | T.L. Martin

The Missed Connection | Tia Williams

Just Right | Shon

Ghost (Track 1) | Jason Reynolds

Patina (Track 2) | Jason Reynolds

Sunny (Track 3) | Jason Reynolds 

Lu (Track 4) | Jason Reynolds

Coach (Track 5) | Jason Reynolds 

This Ain't Our First Rodeo | Liara Tamani

Virginia is for Lovers | Chrissie Clay 

Love | Toni Morrison

Keeper of Lost Children | Sadeqa Johnson

The American Queen | Vanessa Miller

Maame | Jessica George (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Love by the Book | Jessica George (buddy-read with Madaiko)

These Heathens | Mia McKenzie

Kin | Tayari Jones

Judge Stone | Viola Davis, James Patterson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Queen of Sugar Hill | Reshonda Tate

With Love From Harlem | Reshonda Tate

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman | Deesha Philyaw

Good Morning Means I Love You | Kendra Allen

Take What You Can | Naima Coster

Where The Girls Were | Kate Schatz

Resting Bitch Face | Taylor Byas 

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times | Taylor Byas

FAVORITES FROM 2025

What The Fireflies Knew | Kai Harris

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir | Bernice L. McFadden

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou

Bibliotherapy in The Bronx | Emely Rumble, LCSW

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler | Susana M. Morris

Full of Myself | Austin Channing Brown

Needy Little Things | Channelle Desamours

Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson

Outdrawn | Deanna Grey

This Could Be Forever | Ebony Ladelle

Pretty Girl County | Lakita Wilson

Sweetness in the Skin | Ishi Robinson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

We Deserve Monuments | Jas Hammonds

If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin

Red At The Bone | Jacqueline Woodson

Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson

My Friends | Fredrik Backman

Happy Land | Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Can't Get Enough | Kennedy Ryan

Plus Size Player | Danielle Allen

One House Over | Mary Monroe

Colliding With Fate | A.E. Valdez

The Perfect Sister | Desiree (buddy-read)

The Perfect Sister 2 | Desiree (buddy-read)

Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris

The Capone Series | Jahquel J.

The Cappadonna Series | Jahquel J.