6 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS TO ADD TO YOUR FALL READING LIST
6 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS TO ADD TO YOUR FALL READING LIST
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The air is cooling. The days are getting shorter and darker. The leaves are changing. Fall is here and it’s the perfect season for reading. There’s nothing like sitting in front of a fire under a blanket with a cozy sweater, a cop of tea and a great book to warm yourself up and enjoy a good read.
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If you are wondering what book should you read this fall, let me tell you there are plenty of new stories and essays written by black authors. Scroll down to see what we have picked up for your autumn reading list.
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive.
Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.
Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers. Being a loud black girl isn't about the volume of your voice; and using your voice doesn't always mean speaking the loudest or dominating the room. Most of the time it’s simply existing as your authentic self in a world that is constantly trying to tell you to minimise who you are. Loud Black Girls seeks to change that by giving black women a voice and a platform. Readers can expect frank, funny and fearless contributions about what matters to black women today, from a range of prominent voices.
Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her office with the cutest message, she can't resist--it is chocolate cake, after all.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church’s double standards and their own needs and passions.
Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy. Take a Hint is the hilariously romantic tale of Danika Brown, a PhD student, and Zafir Ansari a rugby-player-turned-security-guard. Dani is an ambitious realist, and an all-round badass. Zafir is the brooding, sensitive, hopeless romantic. A video of them quickly goes viral, and as the internet dubs them #DrRugbae, they take advantage of the publicity to help Zaf’s start-up charity.
Happy reading!
