21 books for the soul

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Hello friends! Happy April  #ariesgang,

i meant to have this up before my birthday but then i was sick and bedridden up until my birthday, fun times. but i'm better now girlies plus i'm now 21, a new woman.

in honor of my 21st i have compiled 21 books that i feel will enlighten my soul. these are just 21 books i personally want to read sometime this year. good thing the semester is just about done, y'all know what that means.

~da list~

-an american marriage by tayari jones
-corregidora by gayl jones
-beloved by toni morrison (along with every other toni morrison book because she's a legend)
-the mothers by brit bennett
-sellout by paul beatty
-we need new names by noviolet bulawayo (v special because she's zimbabwean, me too)
-loving donovan by bernice l. mcfadden
-every audre lorde book
-invisible man by ralph ellison
-salt by nayirrah waheed
-teaching my mother how to give birth by warsan shire
-bluebird, bluebird by attica locke
-surpassing uncertainty: what my twenties taught me by janet mock
-becoming by michelle obama (queen mother)
-go tell it on the mountain by james baldwin
-murder on the orient express by agatha christie

-the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
-the coldest winter ever by sistah soulja
-dust tracks on a road: an autobiography by zora neale hurston
-there are more beautiful things than beyonce by morgan parker
-hunger: a memoir of (my) body by roxane gay





for more bookish shenanigans don't to follow my ig @/lit_readzforthesoul
thanks for reading! let me know what's on your reading list. 

happy reading gurls xx

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