What to Read After Words of Fire
Readers who loved Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Words of Fire 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 Words of Fire
Black Feminist Thought
When and Where I Enter
Talking Back
But Some of Us Are Brave
Black Sexual Politics
Ain't I a Woman
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
Some of us did not die
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Colonize This!
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
Black Looks
Black Girl in Paris
Yearning
The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras
Unbought and Unbossed.
Women, Culture & Politics
Sisters of the Yam
Sisters in the Struggle
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Women's Ways of Knowing