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π Book Roulette | Fave Books by Black Authors
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items A celebration of powerful voices, unforgettable stories, and brilliant perspectives. These books by Black authors span genres and generations β each one offering insight, inspiration, and a whole lot of heart. Dive in and discover your next favorite ...
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I was fortunate enough to experience this as an audiobook. I highly recommend the novel. It's such an interesting story.
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
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Good Dirt. I rarely enjoy multi-generational family stories, but I LOVED this one. Charmaine Wilkersonβs writing is perfect. If youβve been thinking about this one, I encourage you to add it to your list.
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Good Dirt: A Novel
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In my 2022 recap, I shared that Razorblade Tears was one of my favorite books of the year, similarly All The Sinners Bleed will inevitably be one of my favorites of 2024. It was powerful. It was well written.
The town's first Black cop,...
All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel
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Maame: A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
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Razorblade Tears: A Novel
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THIS is the anti-racism book that everyone should be reading. I can't say anything else, because I trust that you're going to take my advice and read this one. You said you were going to continue to "do the work." Here's a great one to...
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
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I listened to βCall Us What We Carryβ this past weekend, and let me just say that having Amanda Gorman as the narrator was one of my favorite parts of this entire experience.ββββββββ
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
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I really enjoyed this when, once again, not knowing what I was going to be reading into. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies shares short stories from Black...
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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OH @tune2tunde! So one of my favorite reasons that I own a Peloton [bike] is because of the app offerings. Frequently I go on outdoor walks and listen to @onepeloto...
Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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This was a love story, albeit an untraditional one, but still one. This was the love story of what a marriage is and could be/should be. This was amazing to...
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
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I really enjoyed this. As a human that works in higher education, I think it would be a great book to gift to about-to-graduate students. Of course, ...
You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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Homebodies was amazing. It was a powerful story about a Black writer who gets let go from her job in media, escapes her current situation, posts her story to Twitter, and runs away to explore herself and what she wants.
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Homebodies: A Novel
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McBride has a way with words. The pages, the story felt like velvet on a page, sometimes rubbing the backwards direction (not smooth!). While I shouldnβt have put it down (cause the December attention span is struggling!), I always wanted ...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
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I downloaded James when it became available but never stopped long enough to read it. That changed when I needed something to listen to while headed out of town. I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
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James (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Novel
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After a long weekend of errands and chores, I listened to my first James Baldwinβand Iβll for sure be picking up a physical copy.
This was necessary. Reading this in 2025 felt eerieβso much of what Baldwin wrote still speaks directly to th...
The Fire Next Time
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Oh, Gifty. I loved LOVED this one. I wept, I loved, I wept. This was a story of drug addiction, overdose, depression, and overcoming the darkness. Gyasi's writing made me feel all of the emotions in all of the pages.β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β Β
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Oh, Gifty. I loved LOVED this one. I wept, I loved, I wept. This was a story of drug addiction, overdose, depression, and overcoming the darkness. Gyasi's writing made me feel all of the emotions in all of the pages.β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β Β
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Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick: A novel
