Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

I wanted to tell the story of heroic black women, and dark skin black women, because I feel like although black female authors write a lot about darker skin black women, we don’t usually see them in the center of their own world.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Just started reading Yellowface by R.F. Kwang & ooh, Chile, it might be fiction, but it is JUICY & full of so much SHADE about New York publishing! Ooh, Chile!!!! 😂😂😂 I am gasping & laughing—it’s a wild wide & I admit that I’m thoroughly enjoying myself!

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

What a wonderful event last night at @ElliottBayBooks to celebrate the anthology THERE’S A REVOLUTION OUTSIDE, MY LOVE, edited by Tracy K. Smith & @FreemanReads ! Thank you to my co-presenters @ClaudiaC_L & @SashaLapointe for the fellowship & their beautiful, fierce words!

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

@katurkeyb @nimahs2000 @ElsieSJoseph1 @frankieindc @TheAlanNoble @DaltonHill_4 Ernest J. Gaines’ story collection, BLOODLINE! I love this book so very, very much!

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

@vediabarnett @sjjphd I think about how many Black women quoted “Ain’t I a Woman” —only for us to find out it was a White woman who put those words in Sojourner Truth’s mouth.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Just saw an IG story posted by the brilliant @maudnewton which was a handwritten manuscript of her 9th great-grandmother’s testimony during her trial where she had been accused of witchcraft. Y’all, I cannot WAIT for Maud’s book! I mean, I have been ready since last year.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The legendary writer Alice Walker, daughter of my own maternal Georgia landscape, read my novel, a book I couldn’t have written w/o The Color Purple, but also, I couldn’t have written w/o Ms. Walker’s theory of Womanism. My heart is so very full. https://alicewalkersgarden.com/2021/09/the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-dubois-by-honoree-fannone-jeffers/

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

I’m times of deep trouble, I turn to Lucille Clifton’s Blessing the Boats & Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark. These women & these texts soothe me while simultaneously—strangely—stoke my outrage at all the hurt in this world.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Congratulations to the brilliant @abe_verghese , whose absolutely gorgeous novel, The Covenant of Water, was chosen today by @Oprah as the 101st pick by @oprahsbookclub ! 🙌🏾🎉🎊

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

I shared a beautiful conversation on the flight from Denver to Seattle w/ Beth Nguyen & she gifted me a galley of her new book—Owner of a Lonely Heart—& SIGNED IT. AND told me this was her first time signing this book! I was so honored & thrilled! Y’all, I’m already immersed!