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TBR LIST OF 2023

Sensual Knowledge | Minna Salami
We Should All Be Millionaires | Rachel Rodgers (currently reading) 
One Day It'll All Make Sense | Common
It's All In Your Head | Russ
Quietly Hostile | Samantha Irby
Sisterhood Heals by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Writing Into The Wound | Roxanne Gay
Your Next Level Life | Karen Arrington
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill | Jericho Brown, ed.
How We Heal | Alex Elle
The Upcycled Life | Tariq Trotter
You've Got This: Seven Steps to a Life You Love | Dr. Michaela Dunbar
The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron (Book Club Reading)
Ride or Die | Shanita Hubbard
More Than Enough | Elaine Welteroth
Shine Bright | Danyel Smith

Vinyl Moon | Mahogany L. Browne
Nothing Burns As Bright As You | Ashley Woodfolk
Monday's Not Coming | Tiffany D. Jackson
How To Be a Better Adult | Jacque Aye
The Weight of Blood | Tiffany D. Jackson
Rhythm and Muse | India Hill Brown
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry | Joya Goffney
Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read)

The Accidental Diva | Tia Williams
Play Another Slow Jam | Meisha Gladney
All I've Wanted, All I've Needed | A.E. Valdez
Sugar, Sugar | Lady Marie
Grow Something | Christina C. Jones
Somebody's Wife | Robbi Renee
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life | Kasha Thompson
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks | Shauna Robinson 
Trick | Shae Sanders
Treat | Shae Sanders
Toxic | Penny Blacwrite
Coffee Break | Navy Winters
Pre-Teen Wolf | Lucy Eden
Skin to Skin | A. Nichole
Nookie for the New Year | Nailah
Talk to Me Nicely |  BriAnn Danae
Only For The Week | Natasha Bishop
Before I Let Go | Kennedy Ryan
We Travel The Spaceways | Victor LaValle
Clap Back | Nalo Hopkinson
The Visit | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Yellow Wife | Sadeqa Johnson
The House of Eve | Sadeqa Johnson 
Take My Hand | Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (currently reading)
The Color Purple | Alice Walker (current buddy re-read)
Jonah's Gourd Vine | Zora Neale Hurston

Ain't Never Not Been Black | Javon Johnson 
Queendom | Aubree Pynn
Giver | Adrian Michael Green
Em Dashes and Musings | Tiffany Richardson
Daughter | Ebonee Davis
The Tradition | Jericho Brown
Flowers On The Moon | Billy Chapata
So, Stranger | Topaz Winters

The Tea Dragon Tapestry | Kay O'Neill
The Tea Dragon Festival | Kay O'Neill
The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O'Neill
Giant Days, Vol. 6 | John Allison
I Left The House Today | Cassandra Calin
Aquicorn Cove | Kay O'Neill 
Virtually Yours | Jeremy Holt


FAVORITES FROM 2022

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be | Nichole Perkins
Creative Quest | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Red Lip Theology | Candice Marie Benbow
Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert
After The Rain | Alex Elle
Atomic Habits | James Clear 
Grown | Tiffany D. Jackson
The Beauty That Remains | Ashley Woodfolk 
Love Radio | Ebony LaDelle
Honey and Spice | Bolu Babalola
We Could've Been | Ladii Nesha
I Think I Might Love You | Christina C. Jones
Homemade Love | J. California Cooper
Wash Day Diaries | Jamila Rowser 
Breath Better Spent | DaMaris Hill 
I Think I'm Ready To See Frank Ocean | Shayla Lawson
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