This is the list of the 100 books that Clutch Magazine has dubbed the 100 books authored by black women that you must read
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- Krik! Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (Fiction)
Caucasia by Danzy Senna (Fiction)2014Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris Perry (Nonfiction) own 2013- Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (Fiction)
- The Upper Room by Mary Monroe (Fiction)
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Children’s Books)
- Ugly Ways by Tina McElroy Ansa (Fiction)
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Lori Tharps and Ayana Byrd (Nonfiction)2014- Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction)
- Small Island by Andrea Levy (Fiction)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction) own
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Fiction) own
- Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown (Nonfiction)
- A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry)
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (Fiction)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Science Fiction)2014Breath, Eye, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (Fiction)own2015- Daughters by Paule Marshall (Fiction)
Sula by Toni Morrison (Fiction)own2013The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Fiction) own2013- Naughts and Crosses trilogy by Malorie Blackman (Fiction)
- Coming to England by Floella Benjamin (Autobiography)
- But Some of Us Are Brave by Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith (Nonfiction)
- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry)
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (Fiction)201332 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter (Fiction) own2013- The Fisher King by Paule Marshall (Fiction)
Before You Suffocate your own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Fiction)2014- Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in a Racially Divided Economy by Maggie Anderson (Nonfiction)
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Nonfiction)2013Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Nonfiction)2013- Abeng by Michelle Cliff (Fiction)
- Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (Fiction)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Fiction)own2014I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Autobiography)- Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker (Nonfiction)
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Various (Nonfiction)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Fiction) own2013- The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake (Children’s Books)
- The Shimmershine Queens by Camille Yarbrough (Children’s Books)
- Darkest Child by Dolores Philips (Fiction)
- The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey by Toi Derricotte (Nonfiction)
- Gathering of Waters by Bernice McFadden (Fiction)
- Corregidora by Gayl Jones (Fiction)
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (Fiction)2013- The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin (Autobiography)
- Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis (Nonfiction)
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Nonfiction)
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair (Fiction)own2014- Zami—A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (“Biomythography”)
- Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood (Fiction)
- In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker (Nonfiction)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry (Autobiography) own2013- Her Stories: African American Folktlaes, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton (Fiction)
- The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissak (Fiction)
- Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd (Biography)
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Children’s Books)
- Betsy Brown by Ntozake Shange (Fiction)
Kindred by Octavia Butler (Science Fiction) own2013- Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa (Fiction)
Cane River by Lalita Tademy (Nonfiction)2014Daughter by asha bandele (Fiction)own2015- Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do by Pearl Cleage (Fiction)
- The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (Fiction)
- Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez (Poetry)
- Efrain’s Secret by Sofia Quintero (YA)
- When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan (Nonfiction)
- The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head (Fiction)
- The Collected Poetry by Nikki Giovanni (Poetry)
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Nonfiction) own2014- Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith (Nonfiction)
- The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Fiction)
For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (Fiction) own2012- Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics and Values Wars by Sikivu Hutchinson (Nonfiction)
- The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa (Fiction)
- Deals with the Devil and other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage (Nonfiction)
- Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta (Fiction)
- NW by Zadie Smith (Fiction)
- The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker (Fiction)
- Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks (Nonfiction)
- Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (Fiction)
- Ain’t I A Woman by bell hooks (Nonfiction)
- The Street by Ann Petry (Fiction)
- Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriweather
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriett Jacobs
- Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis (Nonfiction)
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michelle Wallace(Nonfiction)
- Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J.California Cooper (Fiction)
- Meridian by Alice Walker (Nonfiction) own
- The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (Fiction)
- Homemade Love by J. California Cooper (Fiction)
- Bitch is the New Black: A Memoir by Helena Andrews (Autobiography)
Color Blind: A Memoir by Precious Williams (Autobiography)2014- On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe (Fiction)
- Oh Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam CJ Walker by A’lelia Bundles (Biography)
- Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Dr. Marimba Ani (Nonfiction)
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Fiction)
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler (Science Fiction)2014
Books I Have Read
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