These are the top 10 books I would encourage everyone to read. As a feminist woman of color, I may be biased, but these are on my list of books I have read and would like to read in the near future. This list is in no particular order.
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patrica Hill-Collins
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The Bible