fiction & nonfiction please

The autobiography of Malcolm X

Honestly pick an artist and read their works. Start with Baldwin, then Angela Davis, then Colson Whitehead, etc. etc.
Read them front to back one artist a Month

Black men and masculinity: we real cool is a good book for me by bell hooks

Another is citizen by Claudine Rankine tho I never finished it. Give both a shot if you want.

The secret relationship between blacks and Jews by the Nation of Islam

The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Homegoing - Yaa Gysai
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Iceberg slim

I really wanna get into Octavia Butler books in the coming year. But also would like some black or at least non-white fantasy, sci-fi writers to get into who are new.

yea the bell hooks one is really good

home going is really ambitious without forcing it, idk how to explain it without spoiling it too much. better to just go into it knowing its kinda like an African 100 years of solitude

really enjoyed it. tragically beautiful.

anything by Fanon or Walter Rodney for nonfiction

octavia butler is great, honestly a great intro to black sci-fi writings. also have heard good things about NK Jemisin. She has a sci-fi fantasy series that was highly rated. also Evan Winter has this fantasy series apparently dude was just an independent writer who's book got really really big. The Rage of Dragons is the first book in the series.

oh yea it really is something else. i need to read 100 years of solitude this year.

I got novel of the decade. And, I'm black.

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

still need to peep his debut novel that came out 2 years back but this short story collection is incredible

The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye