Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men
Leah Johnson | You Should See Me in a Crown | Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is b
Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | ‘Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania–derailing the War Between the States and c
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and
Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | ‘Nikky Finney has been a fine poet much too long to say that this latest treasure is her promise coming into being. She exploded with so much talent w
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne
