black girl lost…in a book

Book lover. More specifically an African American literature book lover. Book club founder. Graduate degree holder. Fiction Writer. Honest opinion giver. Good joke lover. Good food cooker. Cat haver. Former College Station, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Ft. Lauderdale, and Chicago resident. Current Houston, Texas apartment dweller. Florida State University alumni. Gator (UF) hater. Texas A&M alumni. Teach for America alumni. Certified Special Educator. No kids haver. Knowledge Seeker. Research lover. But most importantly...book lover.
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Can't Be Satisfied: The Life
and Times of Muddy Waters
by Robert Gordon


Last Train to Memphis:
The Rise and Fall of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick


Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell

James Brown: The Godfather
of Soul
by James Brown


Moanin at Midnight: The
Life and Times of Howlin Wolf
by James Segrest

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett



Babylon Girls: Black Women
Performers at the Threshold
of the Modern
by Jayna Brown

The Soloist
by Steve Lopez

Lies Across America
by James Loewen


Our Kind of People
by Lawrence Otis Graham

I May Not Get There With You
The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Michael Eric Dyson


Eat This Not That
by David Zinczenko &
Matt Goulding

Nigger: The Strange Career
of a Troublesome Word
by Randall Kennedy

Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara


Midnight: A Gangster
Love Story
by Sister Souljah


The Prisoner's Wife
by asha bandele

My Soul to Keep
by Tananarive Due

I Put a Spell on You: The
Autobiography of Nina Simone
by Nina Simone

The Soulful Divas
by David Nathan

The Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene

The Secret Laws of Attraction:
The Effortless Way to Get
the Relationship You Want
by Talane Miedaner

Conversation with the Mann
by John Ridley


Child of God
by Lolita Files


October Suite
by Maxine Clair


Black No More
by George S. Schuyler


Friday Nights at Honeybees
by Andrea Smith


The Ways of White Folks
by Langston Hughes


Best Kept-Secrets
of Healthy Cooking
by Sandra Woodruff


Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden


Soul Kiss
by Shay Youngblood


Douglass' Women
by Jewell Parker Rhodes


Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by Z.Z. Packer


Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser


The Wake of the Wind
by J. California Cooper


Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari Jones


Trumpet
by Jackie Kay


A Visitation of Spirits
by Randall Kenan


A Distant Shore
by Caryl Phillips


The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead


Gumbo: A Celebration of African
American Writing
Edited by Marita Golden
& E. Lynn Harris