Reading List

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