Recs if you like Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America...
Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.
Black History
Books you SHOULD be reading all year
Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)
Why they burned the books
History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.
HRCYED 3.0 Helper - 8 Word Titles
Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 8 Word Titles Prompt You must find TEN titles total with the total number words in the title going from one all the way through ten. I'll break these lists down into the total number of words in the title to make planning easier. This is an on going list and always open for recommendations
In Defiance of Religious Hypocrisy
For those of us deconstructing, for those of us questioning, for those of us hurting, for those of us no longer religious, you are not alone. May you feel supported and angered.
History of the World
While non-fiction can be difficult to get into, I am forever on the hunt for stories that are easy to sink my teeth into. This curation has POVs from many different countries and walks of life. Stay tuned cause I'm always adding more!
Musings from Unquiet Minds
Collection of nonfiction(essays, speeches, poetry, social commentary, memoirs etc) written by Black Americans or about Black History.
Black History, But It’s Not Bullsh*t
Books covering Black history, Blackness, and systemic racism without the whitewashing and sanitization.
History of Black Excellence
celebrating our Black brothers & sisters all year round
The Dark Truth of America
Books about the dark truth of the U.S., its history, and how it functions now, covering everything from colonialism, to slavery, to redlining, to police brutality, to poverty, to Christian nationalism, to unchecked capitalism, and more.
WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN
The title explains itself.
E.g. Books that center women, particularly women’s friendships, wlw relationships, women’s resistance and survival in the patriarchy, women of color, queer womanhood and queer women, sisterhood and sisters, white women who reckon with their privilege, and women’s power and strength and fortitude. These books usually don’t cover all the topics at once, this is just the range at which the list includes.
