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We are so pleased to provide this reading list in collaboration with Elizabeth Gilbert, founder of the Onward Book Club and author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, The Signature of All Things, City of Girls, and more.

 
 

The Onward Book Club was created to support and celebrate the work of Black female authors — a group that has historically been under-supported and under-promoted in the publishing industry (and of course the world beyond). The OBC mission is to amplify Black female voices, both established and emerging, within the literary world and the global book-loving community. Elizabeth Gilbert’s bimonthly conversations with the brilliant authors featured here happen on Instagram Live, and can also be found at the Onward Book Club website. It is an honor for the Onward Book Club to partner with Elizabeth’s Bookshop and Writing Centre, to celebrate works by such extraordinarily talented writers and thinkers. Our hope is that readers will share these selections with their own book clubs, and increase the visibility these writers so richly deserve.

bookcover for Written in the Waters

Written in the Waters

Tara Roberts 

$30.00

$27.90

bookcover for Soil

Soil

Camille T Dungy 

$19.99

$18.59

bookcover for Let Us Descend

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward 

$17.99

$16.73

bookcover for The Unsettled

The Unsettled

Ayana Mathis 

$18.00

$16.74

bookcover for How to Say Babylon

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair 

$28.99

$26.96

bookcover for Break the Cycle

Break the Cycle

Dr. Mariel Buqué 

$30.00

$27.90

bookcover for The Body Liberation Project

The Body Liberation Project

Chrissy King 

$28.00

$26.04

bookcover for For The Culture

For The Culture

Klancy Miller 

$40.00

$37.20

bookcover for Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford 

$18.99

$17.66

bookcover for The Light of the World

The Light of the World

Thomas E Donnelley Professor of African American Studies Elizabeth Alexander 

$17.99

$16.73

bookcover for Rest Is Resistance

Rest Is Resistance

Tricia Hersey 

$28.00

$26.04

bookcover for Power

Power

Kemi Nekvapil, 

Elizabeth Gilbert 

$21.00

$19.53

bookcover for We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Samantha Irby 

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for The Ugly Cry

The Ugly Cry

Danielle Henderson 

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Peace From Broken Pieces

Peace From Broken Pieces

Iyanla Vanzant 

$19.99

$18.59

bookcover for Professional Troublemaker

Professional Troublemaker

Luvvie Ajayi Jones 

$18.00

$16.74

bookcover for American Spy

American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson 

$18.00

$16.74

bookcover for The Yellow House

The Yellow House

Sarah M Broom 

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Sing, Unburied, Sing

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward 

$18.00

$16.74

bookcover for Memorial Drive

Memorial Drive

Natasha Trethewey 

$29.99

$27.89

bookcover for The Awakened Woman

The Awakened Woman

Dr Tererai Trent, 

Oprah Winfrey 

$17.00

$15.81

bookcover for Black Is the Body

Black Is the Body

Emily Bernard 

$18.00

$16.74

bookcover for The Beauty in Breaking

The Beauty in Breaking

Michele Harper 

$29.00

$26.97