BLACK ASS BOOKS

This list details all the books I have had the honor of reading! ALLUM are good, but don’t take my black ass word for it, cuz — JUST READ THEM!!!!

Non-fiction:

*Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

MEMOIRS/Essays:

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

No Ashes in The Fire by Darnell L. Moore

HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

I Can’t Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux

*The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker - Damon Young

I Don’t Want To Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux

BLACK HISTORY/BLACK SOCIAL ISSUEs:

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Stamped from the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
What Truth Sounds Like By Michael Eric Dyson

The Souls of Black People by W.E.B DuBois

The Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy Degruy Leary

black fiction

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Native Son by Richard Wright

*The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehesi Coates

*The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

*Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Self help

Black Privilege: by CTHAGOD
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Don’t Dumb Down Your Greatness by Anthony Fraiser

In the Meantime by Iyanla Vazant

Instinct by TD Jakes

Disrupt it Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack A Better Business - Before The Competition Does by Simone Bhan Ahuja

Pursuit: 21 Day Devotional for Creatives, Entreprenuers and Visionaries by Alisa Haughton

Extinguish Burnout by Rob & Teri Bogue

BLACK ASS POETRY

Black Mermaids Poetry Collection by Julia Mallory

*Morning by Aris Hudson