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Women’s History Month Reading List
March is Women’s History Month, but we like to celebrate year-round with this great list of books recommended by Caldwell University English faculty.
| Novels |
| At the Full and Change of the Moon – Dionne Brand Angel – Merle Collins Desirada – Maryse Conde Segu – Maryse Conde I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem – Maryse Conde Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones – Edwidge Danticat Plum Bun – Jessie Redmon Fauset Crick, Crack Monkey – Merle Hodge Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston Buxton Spice – Oonya Kempadoo Tide Running – Oonya Kempadoo Lucy – Jamaica Kincaid Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother – Jamaica Kincaid Praisesong for the Widow – Paule Marshall The Chosen Place, The Timeless People – Paule Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones – Paule Marshall Daddy Was A Number Runner – Louise Meriwether Tar Baby – Toni Morrison Love – Toni Morrison Sula – Toni Morrison A Mercy – Toni Morrison Beloved – Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison SlaveMoth – Thylias Moss Me Dying Trial – Patricia Powell The Pagoda – Patricia Powell Push – Sapphire Caucasia – Danzy Senna Liliane – Ntozake Shange Swingtime – Zadie Smith White Teeth – Zadie Smith By the Light of My Father’s Smile – Alice Walker The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker Jubilee – Margaret Walker Black Girl in Paris – Shay Youngblood |
| Short Stories |
| Gorilla, My Love – Toni Cade Bambara Bloodchild and other Stories – Octavia E. Butler Everything Inside – Edwidge Danticat Haiti Noir – Edwidge Danticat, Ed. Krik? Krak! – Edwidge Danticat By Love Possessed – Lorna Goodison Reena and Other Stories – Paule Marshall Satellite City – Alecia McKenzie |
| Autobiographies / Memoirs |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou The Black Notebooks – Toi Derricotte Bone Black – bell hooks Dust Tracks on a Road – Zora Neale Hurston Incidents in the Life of a SlaveGirl – Harriet Jacobs Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir, 1969-1980 – June Jordan Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde Triangular Road – Paule Marshall The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart – Alice Walker Black, White and Jewish – Rebecca Walker Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Harriet E. Wilson) |
| Poetry |
| I Shall Not Be Moved – Maya Angelou Nightstar: 1973-1978 – Mari Evans The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 – Nikki Giovanni The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde – Audre Lorde Leaving Traces – Velma Pollard Her Blue Body Everything We Know – Alice Walker |
| Anthologies |
| The Black Woman: An Anthology – Toni Cade Bambara, Ed. Whispers from the Cotton Root Tree: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction – Nalo Hopkinson, Ed. Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry – June Jordan, Ed. Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction & Poetry – Charlotte Watson Sherman, Ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology – Barbara Smith, Ed. |