1. Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. The Fire Next
Time by James Baldwin
3. Sister Citizen
by Melissa Harris-Perry
4. The Miseducation
of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
5. Soledad Brother:
The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
6. Cane by Jean
Toomer
7. The Prisoner's
Wife by asha bandele
8. Krik? Krak? by
Edwidge Danticat
9. Things Fall
Apart by Chinua Achebe
10. The Blacker the
Berry by Wallace Thurman
11. Jesus and the
Disinherited by Howard Thurman
12. Black
Bourgeoise by E. Franklin Frazier
13. Jubilee by
Margaret Walker
14. Mumbo Jumbo by
Ishmael Reed
15. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
16. Kindred by
Octavia Butler
17. One Day My Soul
Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant
18. In Search of
Satisfaction by J. California Cooper
19. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
20. A Raisin in the
Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
21. A Lesson Before
Dying by Ernest Gaines
22. Black Betty by
Walter Mosley
23. Maud Martha by
Gwendolyn Brooks
24. I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
25. for colored
girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is not enuf by Ntozake
Shange
26. Black Macho and
the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace
27. The Color
Purple by Alice Walker
28. The Souls of
Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois
29. The Street by
Ann Petry
30. The Women of
Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
31. Praisesong for
the Widow by Paule Marshall
32. This Bridge
Called My Back by Cherríe L. Moraga
33. Sister
Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
34. Waiting to
Exhale by Terri McMillan
35. Native Son by
Richard Wright
36. Your Blues
Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
37. Kehinde by
Buchi Emecheta
38. We a BaddDDD
People by Sonia Sanchez
39. The Ways of
White Folks by Langston Hughes
40. Fences by
August Wilson
41. The Debt by
Randall Robinson
42. Conversations
With God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African-Americans by James Melvin
Washington
43. The Little
Black Book of Success by Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda Joy McLean and Marsha
Haygood
44. Annie Allen by
Gwendolyn Brooks
45. Why I Love
Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson
46. The Wedding by
Dorothy West
47. When
Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan
48. Tumbling by
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
49. What Looks Like
Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
50. Dreams from My
Father by Barack Obama
I haven't read any of the above but I have seen a few of the movies that were based on the books.
( Via:
http://www.essence.com/2012/11/08/write-or-die-chick-50-good-books-every-black-woman-should-read
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