It’s Women’s History Month—no better time to delve into books that celebrate and explore the diverse voices of Black women writers. And the selection is vast. We’ve got memoirs exploring family history, books on building generational wealth and a new children’s book by talk show titan Tamron Hall. And y’all, Confessions of a Video Vixen 20th Anniversary Edition—with bonus material—is dropping this month. Because we want to celebrate our men year-round, a couple of selections from them, too.
Pour yourself a cup of tea, curl up on the couch and dip into these books by Black authors in March.
Confessions of a Video Vixen 20th Anniversary Edition
Karrine Steffans (March 4)
Steffans tell-all left us all gagged when her memoir first came out 20 years ago. Now the video vixen is taking us back, and she’s thrown in bonus material to her warning of bad deed in the music industry that will keep us gooped for days.
Price: $15
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
Bernice L. McFadden (March 4)
The award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University pens her memoir, stretching from her near-death experience as a toddler through her formative years of escape by reading celebrated Black authors. These pages are a portrait of a life shaped by family, history and the drive to be something more.
Price: $30
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
Martha S. Jones (March 4)
Jones, a prizewinning scholar, delves into her family’s past to understand how it has been affected by colorism and get a deeper understanding of identity, belonging and family.
Price: $28
Ghana to the World: Recipes and Stories That Look Forward While Honoring the Past
Eric Adjepong and Korsha Wilson (March 11)
Chef Adjepong taps into his West African heritage for these 100 soul-satisfying recipes and narrative essays. With beautiful pictures shot in Ghana, he showcases his mother’s traditional recipes and meals with a modern twist, all tapping into the idea “Sankofa,” a Ghanaian Twi word to express that we must look back in order to move forward.
Price: $36
Moving Beyond Broke: The Power of Perseverance in Personal Finance
Mary Frances Phillips (March 11)
It’s time to squash the taboo of financial talk and put it center stage. The founder of The Broke Black Girl gives user-friendly advice to take control, move past shame and anxiety and build family wealth in a single generation.
Price: $15
Flip the Tables: The Everyday Disruptor’s Guide to Finding Courage and Making Change
Alencia Johnson (March 11)
Johnson, a cultural critic and social impact leader, outlines the tools needed to break down barriers and confront the fears that hold you back and radically reimagine what’s possible for your life and the world around you.
Price: $25
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
Edna Bonhomme (March 11)
A historian by trade, Bonhomme examines pandemic diseases from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world and unravels shocking truths about discrimination in the face of disease.
Price: $30
O Sinners!: A Novel
Nicole Cuffy (March 18)
A young journalist sets out to embed himself a cult called “the nameless” for a story. But as he delves deeper into its teachings, he realizes he must confront with the memories of loss he has been running from.
Price: $14
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lie
Connie Briscoe (March 18)
The New York Times bestselling author puts a new spin on Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel ‘Rebecca.’ A spirited woman named Angel marries a Black billionaire only to be haunted by the spirit of his first wife, who may have died under nefarious circumstances.
Price: $30
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel
Bob the Drag Queen (March 25)
The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner is taking on a new role: that of fictional historian. He’s created a story about real-life abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who hires a former BET producer to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life.
Price: $14
Harlem Honey: The Adventures of a Curious Kid
Tamron Hall (March 25)
In this colorful children’s book, inspired by the real-life adventures of Hall’s son, a young boy named Moses goes on an interactive adventure to learn all about Harlem’s history and hot spots.
Price: $19
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