Hi, folks!

[Forgive me for spamming you, but, due to my obsession with lists and my tendency to create endless reading projects, today you will have two posts by this [blank] garden of mine.]

You may remember that, a couple of months ago, I decided to turn ZORA‘s list of the 100 Greatest Books ever written by African American Women into a long-term reading project. As an addendum, I want to list here all the Virago Modern Classics by black authors (NB: some of them are not from the USA, but I will be including them on the reading project). I will update this post as I go along. You will be able to find a link to this list on my projects page. Read books are marked as (✓). Favourites are in bold. Books marked as [*] are the ones added by me to ZORA’s original list.

• Books I’ve read: 04/ 14
• Source of the list: Virago Tracker

My reviews, when available, will be linked below.

1. [*] Jonah’s Gourd Vine, by Zora Neale Hurston (1933)
2. ✓ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
3. ✓ Dust Tracks on a Road, by Zora Neale Hurston (1942)
4. ✓ The Street by Ann Petry (1946)
5. [*] The Living is Easy, by Dorothy West (1948)
6. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (1959)
7. [*] When Rain Clouds Gather, by Bessie Head (1968)
8. [*] Daddy Was a Number Runner, by Louise Meriwether (1970)
9. Corregidora by Gayl Jones (1975)
10. ✓ Eva’s Man by Gayl Jones (1976)
11. [*] Dessa Rose, by Sherley Anne Williams (1986)
12. [*] The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, by Dorothy West (1995)
13. The Wedding, by Dorothy West (1995)
14. [*] The Healing, by Gayl Jones (1998)

If you know of any more Virago titles to add to this list, please let me know!

Yours truly,

J.