Escapist Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Marilyn Diamond (6 Lists)



Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2015
136 books — 169 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. WoodsonBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
#CharlestonSyllabus
188 books — 83 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Best Books Ever
78,358 books — 292,114 voters
Love Unlimited by Barry WhiteOn the Down Low by J.L. King
African American Memoirs
468 books — 216 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryUp from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Best African American Books
1,056 books — 1,157 voters
Miles Davis and American Culture by Gerald EarlyThe Dred Scott Decision by Brendan January
African American History in Missouri (nonfiction)
44 books — 8 voters