The Free Black Women’s Library Atlanta Reading List (64) Books

In keeping with GOG’s 2023 Author Awards Weekend theme, “Rise Up and Read!” GOG is partnering with AALBC to host a virtual book drive on behalf of The Free Black Women’s Library Atlanta!

Give the gift of reading and help us share our love of black literature! If making a purchase on behalf of a GOG Chapter, insert your chapter’s state and number in the Company Name field of your book order (see red arrow). If you are not a member of the Go On Girl! Book Club, please enter GOG in the Company Name field

The books will be sent directly to The Free Black Women’s Library Atlanta. 50% of the proceeds will go GOG’s Scholarship Fund. Use coupon code TFBWLA and you will not be charged for shipping. All orders must be placed before midnight, April 30, 2023

The Free Black Women’s Library Atlanta selected the following titles to be purchased:

Book Cover Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (editor)

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

by Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (editor)
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Book Cover Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis

Angela Davis

by Angela Y. Davis
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Book Cover Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones

Mouths of Rain

by Briona Simone Jones
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Book Cover Luster by Raven Leilani

Luster

by Raven Leilani
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Book Cover Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Dub

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Book Cover Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Thick

by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Book Cover Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson

Skin Folk

by Nalo Hopkinson
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Book Cover In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

In the Wake

by Christina Sharpe
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Book Cover Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Spill

by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Book Cover But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Womens Studies by Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith

But Some Of Us Are Brave

by Patricia Bell-Scott, et al.
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Book Cover Blue Talk and Love by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Blue Talk and Love

by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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Book Cover Recurrence Plot: and Other Time Travel Tales by Rasheedah Phillips

Recurrence Plot

by Rasheedah Phillips
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Book Cover I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) by Audre Lorde

I Am Your Sister

by Audre Lorde
(Unavailable)

Book Cover Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

by Toni Morrison
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Book Cover Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata

by Assata Shakur
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Book Cover The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

The Salt Eaters

by Toni Cade Bambara
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Book Cover Ive Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez

Ive Been a Woman

by Sonia Sanchez
(Unavailable)