Brown Girl Reading 13.3K subscribers · Jan 5, 2016

My Top Ten Favorite Books of 2015

Reviews14

Bourgeois bluesJake Lamar
Loved it

this is basically his Memoir and it is extremely interesting because I read this like a few months after I had read between the world and me and I saw some of the similarities

CitizenClaudia Rankine
Loved it

this book mixes lyrical writing and pictures and it discusses race with an intensity that Frankly Speaking I think is merited and she has some very interesting things to say

DaughterAsha Bandele
Loved it

this was the discovery from me Asha bandelli because i' had heard no one speak about her before I didn't know her and I thought that this was an excellent read about the relationship between the mother and daughter

Fates and FuriesLauren Groff
Not a fan

God I wish I had because it took me a month to read that freaking book no not for me no ma'am it almost it put me into a real reading Funk and my December probably could have been richer if I didn't have to finish off the last 150 pages of Fates and Furies

LightheadTerrance Hayes
Loved it

his poetry is a bit it's very contemporary and it's very different from what you're probably thinking of when you think of poetry he says a lot of in his poems and you can even check him out online reading his poems fantastic

the accuracy in which the book is follows historical events through this family is just phenomenal and they did it in you know very few pages actually when you think about it

the quality of the writing it is fantastic a writing style that is just catchy but it's it's intelligent and it's just it keeps you looking for more learned a lot about gay men in this book and yeah it was just really interesting

Water StreetCrystal Wilkinson
Loved it

this is a short story collection that covers a the a black community in a small Kentucky town and fantastic read Because Crystal Wilkinson writes her short stories they almost sound like in some cases they sound like poems