Amplify BIPOC voices ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Caption for “How to be well-read without ever having to read anything by a white man again; an incomplete list”, with source to read the ones in the public domain and buy the ones that aren’t. Also remember: libraries.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (x from Bookshop.org) The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (x from Bookshop.org) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (x from Bookshop.org) The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (x from Bookshop.org) Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (x from Bookshop.org) Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (x from Bookshop.org) One Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous (I II III IV from Project Gutenberg) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x from Project Gutenberg) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass (x from Project Gutenberg) Narrative of Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth (x from Project Gutenberg) Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup (x from Project Gutenberg) Our Nig - Harriet E. Wilson (x from Project Gutenberg) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs (x from Project Gutenberg) The Curse of Caste; or, The Slave Bride - Julia C. Collins (x from Bookshop.org) Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - Elizabeth Keckley (x from Project Gutenberg) Life Among the Paiutes; Their Wrongs and Claims - Sarah Winnemucca (x from Bookshop.org) Wynema: A Child of the Forest - S. Alice Callahan (x from Bookshop.org) Jubilee - Margaret Walker (x from Bookshop.org) Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse (x from Bookshop.org) Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen - Queen Lili'uokalani (x from Bookshop.org) Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington (x from Project Gutenberg) The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois (x from Bookshop.org) The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X (edited by Alex Haley) (x from Bookshop.org) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson (x from Project Gutenberg) The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes (x from Bookshop.org) Some Prefer Nettles - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (x from Bookshop.org) My People the Sioux - Luther Standing Bear (x from Bookshop.org) The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman (x from Bookshop.org) Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells - Ida B. Wells (x from Bookshop.org) Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang (x from Bookshop.org) The Living is Easy - Dorothy West (x from Bookshop.org) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (x from Bookshop.org) The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima (x from Bookshop.org) Memoirs of a Woman Doctor - Nawal El Saadawi (x from Bookshop.org)
