The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge 2023 - hosted by ecn

Health or healing fiction or nonfiction
Health or healing 
fiction or nonfiction
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The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara

304 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

160 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

32 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn: Poems

Audre Lorde

136 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Before I Let Go

Skyland #1

Kennedy Ryan

391 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Camonghne Felix

224 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

38 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography feminism gender memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Lucretia VanDyke

192 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction