Reading List

TBR LIST OF 2024

Black Liturgies | Cole Arthur Riley

A Few Rules for Predicting The Future | Octavia E. Butler

The Black Mother of Hollywood | Jenifer Lewis

On Thriving | Brandi Sellerz Jackson

Black Women Taught Us | Dr. Jenn M. Jackson

Her Rites | Christy Angelle Bauman, Ph. D.

What It Takes To Heal | Prentis Hemphill

A Renaissance Of Our Own | Rachel E. Cargle

Hood Wellness | Tamela Gordon

Sensual Knowledge | Minna Salami

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

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill | Jericho Brown, ed.

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

Rise of a Killah | Ghostface Killah

The Upcycled Life | Tariq Trotter

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

Ride or Die | Shanita Hubbard

Fruit Punch | Kendra Allen

Bamboozled by Jesus | Yvonne Orji

Anxious For Nothing | Max Lucado

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attraction | Amir Levine

Legendborn | Tracy Deonn

Vinyl Moon | Mahogany L. Browne

Outdrawn | Deanna Grey 

Hurricane Summer | Asha Bromfield

Reggie And Delilah's Year of Falling | Elise Bryant

Please Excuse Our Confusion | Jasmine Cartwright

Piecing Me Together | Renee Watson (current buddy-read with Gabster)

Louder Than Words | Ashley Woodfolk and Lexi Underwood 

We're All So Good At Smiling | Amber McBride 

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry | Joya Goffney (buddy read with Madaiko)

Nothing Burns As Bright As You | Ashley Woodfolk

White Smoke | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Black Girl Survives in This One | Desiree S. Evans, ed. (buddy-read with Madaiko)

This Could Be Us | Kennedy Ryan

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde | Tia Williams

Tempted | Ayla Cox

Addicted | Ayla Cox

The Accidental Diva | Tia Williams

Reel | Kennedy Ryan (buddy-read with Madaiko)

My Soul to Keep | Kennedy Ryan (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Down to My Soul | Kennedy Ryan (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Refrain | Kennedy Ryan (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Brooklyn | Tracy Brown 

Curvy Girl Summer | Danielle Allen

Forever My Lady | Olivia Linden

Given A Chance | Olivia Linden

Colliding With Fate | A. E. Valdez

The Bookshop Sisterhood | Michelle Lindo-Rice

The Good Ones Are Taken | Taj McCoy

When I Think of You | Myah Ariel

Fallen Grace | Sadeqa Johnson

And Then There Was Me | Sadeqa Johnson

Fires to Come | Asha Lemmie

Where's The Fun in Forever? | Ashley

Work Husband | Octavia Grant

Another Round | Thee Tasha Marie

Tea Time | Navy Winters

Double or Nothing | Thee Tasha Marie

The Happiest Ending | Shae Sanders

Brothers Unholy | Nastee

Jackal | Erin E. Adams (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Intuitionist | Colson Whitehead (buddy-read with Erica)

Blacktop Wasteland | S.A. Cosby

Razorblade Tears | S.A. Cosby

The Teacher | Freida McFadden (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Coworker | Freida McFadden (buddy-read with Madaiko)

House of Cotton | Monica Brashears (buddy-read with Madaiko)

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife | Ashley Winstead

Weird Black Girls | Elwin Cotman (currently reading)

Maame | Jessica George

Deluge | Charmaine Wilkerson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

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

Mumbo Jumbo | Ishmael Reed

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

Krik, Krak | Edwidge Danticat

Homegoing | Yaa Giasi

The Reformatory | Tananarive Due

Chrome Valley | Mahogany L. Browne

Maps of The Modern World | Valerie June

Magic Enuff | Tara M. Stringfellow

Light For The World To See | Kwame Alexander

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky | Rudy Francisco

Alive At The End of The World | Saeed Jones

If My Flowers Bloom | DeShara Suggs-Joe

Diary of Rhymes | Jemelia Moseley

The Unboxing of a Black Girl | Angela Shante

Komi Can’t Communicate Vol. 1 | Tomohito Oda

Komi Can't Communicate Vol. 2 | Tomohito Oda

Love In Focus Vol. 1 | Yoko Nogiri

Love in Focus Vol. 2 | Yoko Nogiri

My Little Monster Vol. 1 | Robico 

Complex Age Vol. 3 | Yui Sakuma

Skyward | Joe Henderson

Creed: The Next Round | Latoya Morgan, Jai Jamison

Cold Hard Cash | Gary Phillips

FAVORITES FROM 2023

The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron 

Sisterhood Heals by Dr. Joy Harden Bradford

More Than Enough | Elaine Welteroth

The Yellow Wife | Sadeqa Johnson

The House of Eve | Sadeqa Johnson 

Take My Hand | Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Jonah's Gourd Vine | Zora Neale Hurston

Only For The Week | Natasha Bishop

Before I Let Go | Kennedy Ryan

All I've Wanted, All I've Needed | A.E. Valdez

Monday's Not Coming | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

The Weight of Blood | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read with Claudia)

Rhythm and Muse | India Hill Brown

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry | Joya Goffney (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read with Madaiko)

Let Me Hear a Rhyme | Tiffany D. Jackson (buddy-read with Madaiko)