Lemonade Syllabus - A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Inspired by Beyonce

1.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
2.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,196 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,461 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,949 ratings
5.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,011 ratings
6.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,320 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,944 ratings
8.
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,498 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,733 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
12.
Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter 4.09 avg rating — 33,948 ratings
13.
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book 4.38 avg rating — 827 ratings
14.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,104 ratings
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating — 21,147 ratings
16.
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film 4.37 avg rating — 213 ratings
18.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,933 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating — 21,532 ratings
20.
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
21.
All About Love: New Visions
All About Love: New Visions 4.02 avg rating — 123,563 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,564 ratings
23.
Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow 3.90 avg rating — 45,092 ratings
24.
Salt
Salt 4.23 avg rating — 25,023 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 3.99 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
26.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,477 ratings
27.
Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)
Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 17,749 ratings
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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating — 6,827 ratings
29.
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 38,337 ratings
30.
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
31.
Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 10,035 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,165 ratings
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The Book of Night Women
The Book of Night Women 4.37 avg rating — 14,807 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,356 ratings
35.
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America 4.16 avg rating — 704 ratings
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The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart 3.91 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 42,219 ratings
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The Black Rose
The Black Rose 4.26 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting 4.30 avg rating — 292 ratings
40.
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community 4.56 avg rating — 75 ratings
41.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 4.36 avg rating — 27,092 ratings
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present 4.29 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings
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Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters 4.15 avg rating — 4,412 ratings
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 21,453 ratings
46.
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective 4.37 avg rating — 156 ratings
47.
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories 4.51 avg rating — 2,637 ratings
48.
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength 4.47 avg rating — 157 ratings
49.
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 4.23 avg rating — 7,503 ratings
50.
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo 4.10 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
50.
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Possessing the Secret of Joy 4.09 avg rating — 15,681 ratings
52.
A Piece of Cake
A Piece of Cake 4.25 avg rating — 37,795 ratings
53.
The Black Woman: An Anthology
The Black Woman: An Anthology 4.49 avg rating — 401 ratings
54.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
55.
The Street
The Street
by: Ann Petry
4.27 avg rating — 12,961 ratings
56.
Homemade Love
Homemade Love 4.48 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
57.
Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently
Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings
58.
Mama Day
Mama Day 4.19 avg rating — 11,153 ratings
59.
Bailey's Café
Bailey's Café 4.01 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,014 ratings
61.
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
62.
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America 4.20 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
62.
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women 4.45 avg rating — 91 ratings
64.
nejma
nejma 4.03 avg rating — 6,026 ratings
65.
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 4.36 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties 4.72 avg rating — 451 ratings
67.
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 9,499 ratings
68.
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 4.49 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life
All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life 4.21 avg rating — 140 ratings
71.
A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South 4.13 avg rating — 341 ratings
72.
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience 4.56 avg rating — 39 ratings
73.
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 4.51 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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Souls of My Young Sisters: Young Women Break Their Silence with personal Stories That Will Change Your Life
Souls of My Young Sisters: Young Women Break Their Silence with personal Stories That Will Change Your Life 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
75.
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth 4.14 avg rating — 9,104 ratings
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Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition 4.10 avg rating — 119 ratings
78.
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts 4.22 avg rating — 14,934 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,792 ratings
80.
Ruth ESV (Bible, #8)
Ruth ESV (Bible, #8)
by: Anonymous
4.69 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
81.
Corregidora
Corregidora 3.91 avg rating — 5,074 ratings
82.
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
83.
Wench
Wench 3.73 avg rating — 18,203 ratings
83.
Taking Back My Yesterdays: Lessons in Forgiving and Moving Forward With Your Life
Taking Back My Yesterdays: Lessons in Forgiving and Moving Forward With Your Life 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
83.
The Good Negress
The Good Negress 3.67 avg rating — 438 ratings
86.
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
87.
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being 4.36 avg rating — 282 ratings
87.
Addy: An American Girl (Boxed Set)
Addy: An American Girl (Boxed Set) 4.12 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
87.
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
by: K. Samuel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
90.
Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns
Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
90.
The Long Road to Freedom - An Anthology of Black Music
The Long Road to Freedom - An Anthology of Black Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
92.
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Innovations: African American Religious Thought)
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Innovations: African American Religious Thought) 4.31 avg rating — 124 ratings
92.
What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon
What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon 4.28 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings
94.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,809 ratings
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A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence
A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk 4.33 avg rating — 491 ratings
99.
The Hills of Hebron
The Hills of Hebron 4.30 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Can I Get a Witness?: Black Women and Depression
Can I Get a Witness?: Black Women and Depression 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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