Kaitlyn Greenidge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Kaitlyn Greenidge is an editor and author. Features Director @harpersbazaarus Author of "LIBERTIE” and We Love You, Charlie Freeman" (@algonquinbooks) https://t.co/wjqj6fVUWJ

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
RT @JenLouiseWilson: Would Lenin have liked the new Sally Rooney novel? Read my review of "Beautiful World, Where Are you" to find out. h…
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Gloria T. Hull
Alice Dunbar Nelson is also featured in this EXCELLENT biography of three of the messiest Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Color Sex and Poetry by Gloria T Hull (THAT TITLE) https://t.co/P6aBGVHIAI
Paperback, 1987
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Kerri K. Greenidge
3 months away from my brilliant sister @greenidgekerri's new book THE GRIMKES...This book has EVERYTHING...colorism, Black queer women in the 1900s, the dirty laundry of the Black upper class & the phrase "licked her rosebuds"...A thread of the best parts https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324090847
Hardcover, 2022
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
You can volunteer to be part of the community choir in Lincoln Center's opera version of Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER Toshi Reagon has been working on this for years. And they need community members to sing. And you can volunteer at WEEKSVILLE https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=n0FMlk9R1UG28q0eX7MGR19oX9dlLnpJltxjKoPJ09hUQ1dHMk44SlJKWFNFUThKTE01TDE0TzRVMC4u
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Girl in Paris
Shay Youngblood
Make Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl In Paris into a limited series, you cowards https://t.co/S1zYswOMWP
Paperback, 2013
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bridge of Beyond
Simone Schwarz-Bart
“But I didn't come into the world to weigh the world's woe. I prefer to dream, on and on, standing in my garden, just like any other old woman of my age, till death comes and takes me as I dream, me and all my joy.”—Simone Schwarz-Bart, THE BRIDGE OF BEYOND
Paperback, 2013
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
RT @AlgonquinBooks: Yes, another best-of-the-year honor for Kaitlyn Greenidge's #Libertie - @nytimesbooks Best Historical Fiction of 2021!…
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
RT @secondmelvin: .@bmluse wrote about “Passing,” passing, and “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” https://t.co/8hoIJiVkB2
Paperback, 2021
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Something I think about often is how Lorraine Hansberry was trailed by the FBI her whole life but the agent in charge of watching her decided A Raisin in the Sun was not a threat because both white & Black audiences going to see it wouldn't understand what it was actually saying
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Diane Di Prima
“I was simply not equipped, not able to take in the idea that the pain & pleasure of daily life was something to acknowledge. That someone was willing to talk about these things. It was hard enough to simply let the love in.”--Diane di Prima “Recollections of My Life as a Woman”
Paperback, 2002
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book