#20BooksByBlackFolx Challenge 2023 - hosted by melanatedreader

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This challenge is a reading challenge hosted by @Melanatedreader on all platforms… this one is inclusive to all Black writers! This includes Women, Men, and Non-Binary persons! Please use the hashtag in all posts online! 
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Asha Bandele with Patrisse Khan-Cullors (Narrator)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

6 hours, 30 minutes | first published 2018

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Year of Yes

Shonda Rhimes

nonfiction memoir self help reflective slow-paced

7 hours, 4 minutes | first published 2015

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

Conjure Women

Afia Atakora

fiction fantasy historical literary magical realism emotional slow-paced

404 pages | first published 2020

Country Place by Ann Petry

Country Place

Ann Petry

fiction emotional reflective sad slow-paced

280 pages | first published 1947

We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
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We Are All So Good at Smiling

Amber McBride

fiction fantasy poetry dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3 hours, 45 minutes | first published 2023

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced

412 pages | first published 2022

Meaty by Samantha Irby

Meaty

Samantha Irby

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced

256 pages | first published 2013

Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley

Fake It Till You Bake It

Jamie Wesley

fiction contemporary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced

324 pages | first published 2022

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

fiction contemporary literary challenging dark funny medium-paced

289 pages | first published 2015

Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Hottentot Venus

Barbara Chase-Riboud

fiction historical informative inspiring slow-paced

14 hours, 46 minutes | first published 2003