My Year in Books 2024
I’ve been busy the last year, so that is why I haven’t had time to post here!
My second year owning a brick-and-mortar bookstore is in the books, and I found time to read over 60 books! Most of the books below are new books, while others are rereads. I highlighted my favorite books in red.
| Title | Author |
| Pinktoes | Chester Himes |
| First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent | Lorissa Rinehart |
| Erasure | Pervical Everett |
| Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body | Lyvonne Briggs, Briana Boyd PhD |
| The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | Gene Roberts |
| Passing | Neila Larson |
| Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World | Amisha Padnani |
| Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum | Antonia Hylton |
| Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements | George Breitman |
| Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song | Judith Tick |
| A Love Song for Ricki Wilde | Tia Williams |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America | Roxanna Asgarian |
| A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Timothy Egan |
| The Bookshop Sisterhood | Michelle Lindo-Rice |
| The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | Henry Louis Gates Jr |
| The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon | Adam Shatz |
| Journal of a Black Queer Nurse | Britney Daniels |
| All The Fighting Parts | Hannah V. Sawyerr |
| Feminist City: A Field Guide | Leslie Kern |
| John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Country | Raymond Arsenault |
| Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture | Tricia Romano |
| The White Album | Joan Didion |
| Africa is not a Country: Notes from a Bright Continent | Dipo Faloyin |
| Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics | Michael G. Long |
| An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams |
| Southern Horrors | Ida B. Wells |
| Juneteenth: The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South | Charles River Editors |
| The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA | Liza Mundy |
| Seven Days in June | Tia Williams |
| If They Come In The Morning | Angela Davis |
| Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People | Tiya Miles |
| Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV | Emily Nussbaum |
| When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II | Molly Guptill Manning |
| On Juneteenth | Annette Gordon-Reed |
| War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony | Nelson A. Denis |
| The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution | C.L.R. James |
| The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 | Rashid Khalidi |
| The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War | James Shapiro |
| Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era | Lawrence Leamer |
| A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune | Noliwe Rooks |
| Assata: An Autobiography | Assata Shakur |
| Ride or Die | Gail Agnes-Musikavanhu |
| Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan | Jake Adelstein |
| Capitalism and Slavery | Eric Williams |
| Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez |
| The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks | Shauna Robinson |
| The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat | Edward Kelsey Moore |
| King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa | Adam Hochschild |
| Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History | Yuante Huang |
| I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman’s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris | Glynnis MacNicol |
| The Devil Finds Work: An Essay | James Baldwin |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Cuba: An American History | Ada Ferrer |
| Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts | Sarah Thornton |
| Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street; One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased | Victor Luckerson |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X, Alex Haley |
| The Black Utopians | Aaron Roberts |