Recs if you like In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose...

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

novels, poetry, literary criticism, and history books by Black authors referenced in Farah Jasmine Griffin’s Read Until You Understand; The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature — forming a type of Black literary canon

Essential writings from Black feminists.

Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad, and books from as many of the authors mentioned therein that I could find. (Including books from the Further Learning section.)

May 16th is National Biographer's Day, commemorating the work of people who write about... people! We've picked out a whole pile of our favorite biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs by and about queer folks to celebrate the occasion. (This list is presented by Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher focused on publishing queer art and stories by queer creators! A group of us collaborate to make these recommendations.)

personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!

Here’s what I’ve been reading in grad school/hoping to read more of :) Focused mostly on 1st-2nd generation of Womanist authors [Many books I would include are not yet on Pagebound]

every month, são paulo's public library creates a 10 book list based on a different country, here are the books of 2026 (january = france, february = england, march = italy, april = south korea, may = portugal, june = russia, july = usa, august = nigeria)