Reading List for Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Memphis

by Tara M. Stringfellow

Finding Me: A Memoir

by Viola Davis

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

by Farah Jasmine Griffin

The Violin Conspiracy

by Brendan Slocumb

We Are Not Like Them

by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays

by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)

No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel

by Stephanie Powell Watts