Good Books

Good Books is a Black-owned, online and pop-up book store curated by mother-daughter duo, Katherine and Katie. It marries our two loves―books and Black folks. 

 

Since opening in 2019, Good Books has partnered with Well-Read Black Girl, Virgil Abloh, The LA Review of Books and has appeared in NPR, The New York Times, W Magazine, NBC News, and more. 

 

We pay homage to Blackness through literature. New or vintage. Acclaimed or obscure. All Black books are Good Books. 

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
Gather
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Checking in: How Getting Real about Depression Saved My Life---And Can Save Yours
Erotique Noire/Black Erotica
Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fears (Original)
Pussy Prayers: Sacred and Sensual Rituals for Wild Women of Color
Black Sun Signs: An African-American Guide to the Zodiac (Original)
Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
#Veryfat #Verybrave: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-In-The-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini
Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook
The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Including Koji, Kombuchas, Shoyus, Misos, Vinegars, Garums, Lacto-Ferments, and Black Fruits and Vegetables
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries That Touch the Indian Ocean [A Cookbook]
Everyone's Table: A James Beard Award Winner
Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer
Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day: A Cookbook
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed [A Cookbook]
Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul: A Cookbook
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Flower Farmers + Florists
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
Bitter
Recitatif: A Story
The Echoing Ida Collection
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
My Monticello: Fiction
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Harlem Shuffle
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Maya and the Robot
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
The Other Black Girl
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Luster
Women, Race, & Class
Are Prisons Obsolete?
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Red at the Bone
Pet
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
The Gilda Stories (Anniversary, Expanded)
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
A Taste of Honey
Since I Laid My Burden Down
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Complete Works of Pat Parker
Black Queer Hoe
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
Rise of the Rain Queen
Rihanna
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power
Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
Stevie Wonder - Easy Piano Anthology
The Anthology of Rap
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Revised)
Bun B's Rapper Coloring and Activity Book
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Holler if You Hear Me
Mercy, Mercy, Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (Revised)
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
All about Love: New Visions
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward f
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
Bad Feminist
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 (Revised)
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
We Should All Be Feminists
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Between the World and Me
Homegoing
The Ways of White Folks
The Water Dancer
The Nickel Boys
The Underground Railroad
The Bluest Eye
An American Marriage (Oprah Book Club)
Heavy: An American Memoir
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Beloved
The Vanishing Half
The Mothers
Dead Dead Girls
Fearless Jones
Charcoal Joe
Rose Gold
The Jigsaw Man (Original)
A Deadly Inside Scoop
Windy City Dying
Assume Nothing
Cemetery Road
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir
All Shot Up
Razorblade Tears
Little Yellow Dog
Black Betty: An Easy Rawlins Novel
A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Novel
Shady Baby
Antiracist Baby Picture Book
Woke Baby
The ABCs of Black History
Ten Black Dots
Feast for 10
Who?: A Celebration of Babies: A Celebration of Babies
B Is for Baby
I Like Myself! Board Book
Baby Says
Girl of Mine
Whose Knees Are These?
Whose Toes Are Those?
Peekaboo Morning
Lullaby (for a Black Mother) Board Book