Kindred Stories

Kindred Stories is a bookstore located at 2304 Stuart Street in Third Ward, Houston, TX. We seek to curate a safe space where the beautiful works shaped and molded by Black authors are more accessible to the underserved, but culturally thriving community of Third Ward.

The GOATS VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)

Things Fall Apart

The Color Purple

Homegoing

Americanah

The Street

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Kindred

Heavy: An American Memoir

White Teeth

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Coldest Winter Ever

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Parable of the Sower

Native Son

VIEW ALL 16 BOOKS

Stay Woke VIEW LIST (26 BOOKS)

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

The History of White People

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

So You Want to Talk about Race

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

VIEW ALL 26 BOOKS

Black Boy Joy VIEW LIST (24 BOOKS)

Ikenga

For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

King and the Dragonflies

The Usual Suspects

The Magic in Changing Your Stars

I Am Every Good Thing

What Lane?

Dough Boys

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

The Season of Styx Malone

Ghost: Volume 1

Rebound

Clean Getaway

The Stars Beneath Our Feet

VIEW ALL 24 BOOKS

Black Girls Rock! VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)

The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown

The Mia Mayhem Collection: Mia Mayhem Is a Superhero!; Mia Mayhem Learns to Fly!; Mia Mayhem vs. the Super Bully; Mia Mayhem Breaks Down Walls

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

For Black Girls Like Me

Blended

Stella by Starlight

Like Vanessa

Mango Delight: Volume 1

Summer in the City: Volume 2

Brown Girl Dreaming

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

A Good Kind of Trouble

The Only Black Girls in Town

What Momma Left Me

One Crazy Summer

VIEW ALL 20 BOOKS

We Should All Be Feminists VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)

Bad Feminist

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

We Should All Be Feminists

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists & Progressive Politics During World War II

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

A Black Women's History of the United States

Black and Beautiful VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)

Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty

Blind Spot

Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting

Lorna Simpson Collages: (Art Books, Contemporary Art Books, Collage Art Books)

Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

$Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem$

I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Dandy Lion: Black Dandy and Street Style

Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful

Soulfood Thursday VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)

99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines

I Heart Soul Food: 100 Southern Comfort Food Favorites

Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration

Food for Life: Delicious & Healthy Comfort Food from My Table to Yours!

Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails

The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook

Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes

Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart: A Cookbook

Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed [A Cookbook]

For the Youths VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)

The Year I Flew Away

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Tar Beach

Imani's Moon

Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

All Because You Matter

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Cool Cuts

Another

The King of Kindergarten

Grandma's Purse

My Rainy Day Rocket Ship

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Too Small Tola

Bedtime Bonnet

VIEW ALL 21 BOOKS

YA with Flavor VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)

The Awakening of Malcolm X

Queenie

Felix Ever After

Dear Martin

If You Come Softly

One of the Good Ones

The Black Kids

Pet

Akata Witch

American Street

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

Monday's Not Coming

Every Body Looking

Grown

Teach the Babies VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)

Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

The ABCs of Black History

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

Bold Words from Black Women: Inspiration and Truths from 50 Extraordinary Leaders Who Helped Shape Our World

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids

Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

The ABCs of AOC: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from A to Z

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm