What to Read After Yearning
Readers who loved Yearning by Bell Hooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Yearning is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Yearning
Words of Fire
When and where I enter
Talking back
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
The Cancer Journals
Feminist theory
Where We Stand
Sisters of the Yam
Feminism without borders
Some of us did not die
An Archive of Feelings
More Joy of Sex
But Some of Us Are Brave
This bridge we call home
Simians, cyborgs, and women
Women, culture & politics
Civil Wars
Black looks
killing rage
Ain't I a Woman
Wounds of passion
Teaching Community
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Communion