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Brown Girl Collective Book Store

The Brown Girl Collective Book Store is an extension of Brown Girl Collective and the place where the stories of Black women and girls take center stage. Here, you will find classic novels, new releases, non-fiction, fiction, children's stories, and everything in between. Browse the store and celebrate the boldness, brilliance, and beauty of Black women and girls. 

BGC Book Club Selections and Featured Authors VIEW LIST (33 BOOKS)
Things Past Telling
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
Cherish Farrah
The Dust Bowl Orphans: A completely heartbreaking and unputdownable historical novel
Black Girls Must Be Magic
Wahala
The Teller of Secrets
The Between
The Girl at the Back of the Bus: An absolutely heart-wrenching historical novel
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Caul Baby
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel
Looking for Hope
When the Reckoning Comes

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Featured on "Live Well, Sister!" - Powered by Brown Girl Collective VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World
Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood (Gift for New Moms)
Black Girl in Love (with Herself): A Guide to Self-Love, Healing, and Creating the Life You Truly Deserve
You Got This!: A Girl's Guide To Growing Up
Girls Got Issues: A Woman's Guide to Self-discovery and Healing
BGC Book Club Member Faves VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
Ugly Ways
Parable of the Talents
Leaving Cecil Street
Sugar
Cane River
The Coldest Winter Ever
Tumbling
The Street
The Bluest Eye
Anybody's Daughter
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Waiting to Exhale
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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New and Notable Books VIEW LIST (140 BOOKS)
Things Past Telling
Something Good
Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing
Carolina Built
Black Girls Must Be Magic
The Dust Bowl Orphans: A completely heartbreaking and unputdownable historical novel
The Great Mrs. Elias
Because Claudette
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
Recitatif: A Story
Freewater
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
Black Cake
And We Rise
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

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Coming Soon VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)
The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Love Me as I Am
On Rotation
Good Morning, Love
A Woman of Endurance
Sister Friends Forever
Take My Hand
Memphis
The Queen Bee
A Crown So Cursed
HERStory Matters - Autobiographies/Memoirs VIEW LIST (74 BOOKS)
I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope
Love Me as I Am
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
Leaving Breezy Street: A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
The Ugly Cry: A Memoir

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HERStory Matters - Biographies VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, an Intimate Portrait
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Fabulous Fiction VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)
Things Past Telling
Carolina Built
The Dust Bowl Orphans: A completely heartbreaking and unputdownable historical novel
The Great Mrs. Elias
Recitatif: A Story
Black Cake
Island Queen
Moon and the Mars
Yellow Wife
Rosie's Curl and Weave
The Girl at the Back of the Bus: An absolutely heart-wrenching historical novel
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Caul Baby
Palmares
In Every Mirror She's Black

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The Classics VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
Passing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Brown Girl, Brownstones
The Living Is Easy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Bluest Eye
The Women of Brewster Place
Kindred
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)
The Street
Beloved
The Color Purple
A Raisin in the Sun
New Millennium Favorites VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Homegoing
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
The Coldest Winter Ever
Americanah
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Nappily Ever After
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Sugar
Salvage the Bones
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Queen Sugar