Recs if you like All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake...
Roots before branches
Fictional stories about families spanning across multiple generations. Books that focus on the life of a matriarch or patriarch (roots) and continue along their blood lines (branches) in an epic tale. Please feel free to recommend any fictional stories that fit within this description.
Black History
Books you SHOULD be reading all year
Memory : Narratives and Monuments
A list of books about how we remember, or avoid remembering history.
Commemoration, memorials, monuments, narratives, and rhetoric.
Philosophical, creative and social justice themes. Decolonization focused.
Considering statues, museums, journalism, books, etc. with nuance and depth.
Cycles of Mothering 🫀
Understanding the love we received and needed, and the loving we do. Love as tradition preserved through mothering.
Books to nourish your creativity
These books encourage new ways of thinking, help you see the world differently, and offer possibility.
Diverse Baseline Challenge
These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.
This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.
Microhistories
Women in Microhistories mainly - but some other notable ones!!!
Award Winning Reads
Nobel, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Lambda Literary Award, etc. winners
Women and gender history
Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted books
Cundill History Prize Winners
The Cundill History Prize is an annual Canadian literary award for history writing in English. The prize is awarded to an author whose book, published in the past year, demonstrates "historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal".
