I've read the majority of bell hooks' books. Ain't I A Woman?, Breaking Bread, We Real Cool, and Reel to Real are some of my favourites of hers.
Race Matters and Democracy Matters by Cornel West are entertaining and fantastically written reads.
The New Jim Crow by the beautiful Michelle Alexander is a personal favourite of mine, and while I knew the majority of the information before I picked up the book, i still found it quite insightful and very well put together, a must read.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable are both fantastic as well, and give distinctly different viewpoints, even while focusing on the same figure.
Wretched of the Earth, Toward African Colonialism, Black Skin White Masks, and A Dying Colonialism by Franz Fanon have all been in my collection since Freshmen year of high school and honestly they changed my life, absolutely fantastic.
Mahogany by Edward/Edouard Glissant is fantastic if you can find a translated version
Revolutionary Suicide and Huey Newton's dissertation are also incredibly important works.
I do enjoy Chimamanda Adiche's books Purple Hibiscus and Americanah, though the latter book suffers from an immense amount of writer's bias even as clearly as it is written.
And damn near anything by Walter Dean Myers and Mildred D. Taylor.
Outside of Black authors, most of Marx's work, The Conquest of Bread, Fields Factories and Workshops, by Kropotkin, The Fortune of Africa by Martin Meredith, Deleuze and Guttari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power, and a select few others have really impacted me.
Race Matters and Democracy Matters by Cornel West are entertaining and fantastically written reads.
The New Jim Crow by the beautiful Michelle Alexander is a personal favourite of mine, and while I knew the majority of the information before I picked up the book, i still found it quite insightful and very well put together, a must read.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable are both fantastic as well, and give distinctly different viewpoints, even while focusing on the same figure.
Wretched of the Earth, Toward African Colonialism, Black Skin White Masks, and A Dying Colonialism by Franz Fanon have all been in my collection since Freshmen year of high school and honestly they changed my life, absolutely fantastic.
Mahogany by Edward/Edouard Glissant is fantastic if you can find a translated version
Revolutionary Suicide and Huey Newton's dissertation are also incredibly important works.
I do enjoy Chimamanda Adiche's books Purple Hibiscus and Americanah, though the latter book suffers from an immense amount of writer's bias even as clearly as it is written.
And damn near anything by Walter Dean Myers and Mildred D. Taylor.
Outside of Black authors, most of Marx's work, The Conquest of Bread, Fields Factories and Workshops, by Kropotkin, The Fortune of Africa by Martin Meredith, Deleuze and Guttari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power, and a select few others have really impacted me.
how have you had the time to read all of this? 
