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10 Must-Read Books by Black Women Authors
Your bookshelf should contain reads by Charmaine Wilkerson, Dawnie Walton, Michelle Obama, and Oyinkan Braithwaite.
Literature would lose its essence in all time periods if it weren’t for the writing of Black women. Pioneering authors Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker set the tone, whose works are just as timely and iconic today as they were upon release. These women also paved the way for modern book laureates, like Charmaine Wilkerson, Tomi Adeyemi, and Zadie Smith.
BET.com lists Black women-authored books that you should flip through next.
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