TCS Recommended Books for Young African American and Latino Women

 

Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Michaela & Elaine DePrince

 

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Immortal Life of Henriette Lacks by Rebecca Skoots

 

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Southland by Nina Revoyr 

The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

 

ILL at East by Albert Neal

 

Bliss by Gabrielle Pina

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones

Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez

Shout, Sister, Shout: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle F. Wald

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)

The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Gloria Naylor

Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times by Julia Alvarez

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Gabriela F. Arredondo

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

A Raisin in the Sun Mass Market by Lorraine Hansberry

Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel by Reyna Grande

The Third Woman by Mel Donalson

Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros

Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes 

Americanah Paperback by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Color Purple 1st Edition by Alice Walker

Home (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison

Babylon Sisters: A Novel Paperback by Pearl Cleage

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde

The Salt Eaters Paperback by Toni Cade Bambara 

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings

Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns by J. California Cooper

Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education Paperback by Jennifer De Leon

Frida Kahlo Paperback by Malka Drucker