Nonfiction - Black Reads

In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black a...

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black arti...

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelo...

Notes From Black ReadsBeautiful, brutal, and often banned – this modern classic gives an unflinching view of a childhood rooted in pain that flo...

Notes From Black ReadsBeautiful, brutal, and often banned – this modern classic gives an unflinching view of a childhood rooted in pain that flo...

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago wit...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Book Club...

In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life...