Nappily Married

9 best books like Nappily Married (Trisha R. Thomas): The Darkest Child, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, A Prince on Paper, When I Was White: A Memoir, Trade Me, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Untelling, We're Going to Need More Wine

The Darkest Child

Author	Delores Phillips
ISBN	1569473781

Bakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises...

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Author	Glory Edim
ISBN	0525619771

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...

A Prince on Paper

Author	Alyssa Cole
ISBN	0062685600

The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her…

Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual...

When I Was White: A Memoir

Author	Sarah Valentine
ISBN	1250146755

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man.

At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed...

Trade Me

Author

Courtney Milan

Listening length: 7 hours, 45 minutes

Tina Chen just wants a degree and a job, so her parents never have to worry about making rent again. She has no time for Blake Reynolds, the sexy billionaire who stands to inherit Cyclone Technology. But when he makes an off-hand comment about what it means...

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Author	Brittney Cooper
ISBN	1250112575

An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Bustle • The Root • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace")

Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching,...

If Beale Street Could Talk

Author	James Baldwin
ISBN	0307275930

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have...

The Untelling

Author	Tayari Jones
ISBN	0446694568

Rating 3.75

I read Tayari Jones book An American Marriage and was immediately taken with the writing. I was so drawn into the story and couldn't wait to read more by this author. I decided to grab the audio version of this one and was hooked in the beginning. Again, Jones has a slow moving story,...

We're Going to Need More Wine

Author

Gabrielle Union

A powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she...