Reading List

TBR LIST OF 2025

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir | Bernice L. McFadden

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou

I Lived to Tell The Story | Tamika D. Mallory

Fearless And Free | Josephine Baker

Bibliotherapy in The Bronx | Emely Rumble, LCSW

On Thriving | Brandi Sellerz Jackson

What It Takes To Heal | Prentis Hemphill

Sensual Knowledge | Minna Salami

We Should All Be Millionaires | Rachel Rodgers (currently reading) 

You've Got This: Seven Steps to a Life You Love | Dr. Michaela Dunbar

True to You: A Therapist's Guide... | Kathleen Smith

Everything and Nothing at Once | Joel Leon

Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching | Mychal Denzel Smith

High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul | Marcus J. Moore

Needy Little Things | Channelle Desamours

Muted | Tami Charles 

Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess | Tiffany D. Jackson

Bloodmarked | Tracy Deonn (currently reading)

Oathbound | Tracy Deonn

Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Girls Who Grew Big | Leila Mottley (currently reading)

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe | Mahogany L. Browne

Please Excuse Our Confusion | Jasmine Cartwright

Outdrawn | Deanna Grey

This Could Be Forever | Ebony Ladelle

24 Seconds from Now | Jason Reynolds

Go Tell It On The Mountain | James Baldwin

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm | Laura Warrell

Sing Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward

Death of The Author | Nnedi Okafor

Tar Baby | Toni Morrison (buddy-read)

Can't Get Enough | Kennedy Ryan

All The Men I've Loved Again | Christina Pride

All Her Little Secrets | Wanda M. Morris (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Plus Size Player | Danielle Allen

Addicted | Ayla Cox

One House Over | Mary Monroe

Colliding With Fate | A.E. Valdez

The Crash | Freida McFadden

It's Elementary | Elise Bryant (buddy-read)

The Perfect Sister | Desiree (buddy-read)

The Perfect Sister 2 | Desiree (buddy-read)

Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris

Jah| Alexandria House

Given A Chance | Olivia Linden

Lovers and Friends | Olivia Linden

Such a Fun Age |Kiley Reid

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky | Rudy Francisco

Alive At The End of The World | Saeed Jones

Poetry is Not a Luxury

How It Feels To Be Colored Me | Zora Neale Hurston

Scorched Earth | Tiana Clark

ODB: Oddities, Discord & B-Sides―Lyrical Ruckus in the City | Ike Reed

Komi Can't Communicate Vol. 1 | Tomohito Oda

Komi Can't Communicate Vol. 2 | Tomohito Oda

FAVORITES FROM 2024

Black Liturgies | Cole Arthur Riley

Black Women Taught Us | Dr. Jenn M. Jackson

Sensual Faith | Lyvonne Briggs

Believing Bigger | Marshawn Daniels Evans

The Marathon Don’t Stop | Rob Kenner (buddy-read with Claudia)

The Chronicles of DOOM | S.H. Fernando Jr.

Gather Me | Glory Edim

Legendborn | Tracy Deonn

This Could Be Us | Kennedy Ryan

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde | Tia Williams

Reel | Kennedy Ryan (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Curvy Girl Summer | Danielle Allen

Silver Sparrow | Tayari Jones (buddy-read with Erica)

Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston

Sky Full of Elephants | Cebo Campbell

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Secret Keeper of Main Street | Trisha R. Thomas

The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Fault Lines | Emily Itami