Here are four of my favorite novels. #BrianaReads
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Here are four of my favorite novels. #BrianaReads
October 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Currently reading: A Companion to Feminist Art, edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek #BrianaReads
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Currently reading: A Companion to Feminist Art, edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek #BrianaReads
#SinnersMovie Insp
• Jazz Poems
• Blues Poems
• 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
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• Jazz Poems
• Blues Poems
• 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
#BrianaReads
May 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#SinnersMovie Insp
• Jazz Poems
• Blues Poems
• 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
#BrianaReads
• Jazz Poems
• Blues Poems
• 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
#BrianaReads
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#BrianaReads
October 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#BrianaReads
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave
• Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
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• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave
• Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
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October 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave
• Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
#BrianaReads
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave
• Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
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The first purchase for my Jane Austen collection to be added to my personal library is the Macmillan Collector’s Library set. #BrianaReads
July 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The first purchase for my Jane Austen collection to be added to my personal library is the Macmillan Collector’s Library set. #BrianaReads
I put The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden on hold at the library. Steinbeck Spring is coming. #BrianaReads
February 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I put The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden on hold at the library. Steinbeck Spring is coming. #BrianaReads
Next on my May TBR:
“On Morrison” by Namwali Serpell and “Toni at Random” by Dana A. Williams.
I have read all of Toni Morrison’s books, so I am looking forward to getting into these.
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“On Morrison” by Namwali Serpell and “Toni at Random” by Dana A. Williams.
I have read all of Toni Morrison’s books, so I am looking forward to getting into these.
#BrianaReads
April 26, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Next on my May TBR:
“On Morrison” by Namwali Serpell and “Toni at Random” by Dana A. Williams.
I have read all of Toni Morrison’s books, so I am looking forward to getting into these.
#BrianaReads
“On Morrison” by Namwali Serpell and “Toni at Random” by Dana A. Williams.
I have read all of Toni Morrison’s books, so I am looking forward to getting into these.
#BrianaReads
Audition by Katie Kitamura is on the 2025 Booker Prize long list and it might have gotten an Obama boost. From what I see, this is pretty divisive but I LOVED Audition and thought it was perfect. #BrianaReads
President Obama’s 2025 summer reading list is here – but this year, he added something new. Alongside the books, you’ll find his own handwritten reflections on why each one made the list.
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President Obama’s favorite reads of the summer
Check out President Obama’s summer book picks—in his own words.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Audition by Katie Kitamura is on the 2025 Booker Prize long list and it might have gotten an Obama boost. From what I see, this is pretty divisive but I LOVED Audition and thought it was perfect. #BrianaReads
#BrianaReads Here are two books that I’m excited to dig into about millennial women and girlhood!
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
June 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
#BrianaReads Here are two books that I’m excited to dig into about millennial women and girlhood!
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
I never considered myself into weird girl litfic but then I just saw a post of like… 15 books in that canon and I read all of them and liked them. In true millennial fashion, I’m not a fan of labels. #BrianaReads
August 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I never considered myself into weird girl litfic but then I just saw a post of like… 15 books in that canon and I read all of them and liked them. In true millennial fashion, I’m not a fan of labels. #BrianaReads
I just finished reading the highly buzzed-about book "Kin" by Tayari Jones and wrote a review on my blog. I love books about Southern-born Black women. #BrianaReads
Kin by Tayari Jones
I love when a book that is being hyped up ends up living up to its reputation. All of the bookish Black girlies I respect have put Kin by Tayari Jones high on their reading lists. While I…
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June 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I just finished reading the highly buzzed-about book "Kin" by Tayari Jones and wrote a review on my blog. I love books about Southern-born Black women. #BrianaReads
Next on my reading list: #BrianaReads
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
August 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Next on my reading list: #BrianaReads
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
#America250 On the admin holiday of the Fourth of July, I read Jesmyn Ward's essay collection, "On Witness and Respair" and wrote a review of it on my blog. This highlights her background of growing up poor and Black in rural Mississippi. #BrianaReads
On Witness and Respair: Essays by Jesmyn Ward
I want to start by saying that it is July 3, 2026. It is the administrative holiday of the Fourth of July, and the United States is turning 250 years old. I found it important to read about the Ame…
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July 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
#America250 On the admin holiday of the Fourth of July, I read Jesmyn Ward's essay collection, "On Witness and Respair" and wrote a review of it on my blog. This highlights her background of growing up poor and Black in rural Mississippi. #BrianaReads
#BrianaReads I read "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker for the first time over the past couple of days. It's immediately going on my list of favorite books of all time. I wrote a review of it on my blog.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
When I think of canonical books that detail the Black American women’s experience, I think of three: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Beloved by Toni Morrison, an…
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May 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM
#BrianaReads I read "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker for the first time over the past couple of days. It's immediately going on my list of favorite books of all time. I wrote a review of it on my blog.
My June 2026 TBR has some heat 🔥 I can’t believe that I’ve never read The Color Purple, Native Son, or Invisible Man.
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May 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
My June 2026 TBR has some heat 🔥 I can’t believe that I’ve never read The Color Purple, Native Son, or Invisible Man.
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Reading all 651 pages of “Fox” by Joyce Carol Oates felt like wading through muck and tar because of the subject matter being about a pedophile. Now I feel like I can read anything. That was such a deeply uncomfortable reading experience. #BrianaReads
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates
Content Warning: This novel contains graphic depictions of pedophilia, child abuse, violence, self-harm, and suicide. This review will go into detail about those topics as well. Please heed th…
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May 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Reading all 651 pages of “Fox” by Joyce Carol Oates felt like wading through muck and tar because of the subject matter being about a pedophile. Now I feel like I can read anything. That was such a deeply uncomfortable reading experience. #BrianaReads
A couple of years ago, I read all eleven of Toni Morrison's novels, and today, I finished reading "On Morrison" by Namwali Serpell. This is an exploration of Toni Morrison's genius work, which I highly recommend. #BrianaReads
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
A couple of years ago, I read all of Toni Morrison’s novels in published order back-to-back. In retrospect, I don’t recommend this at all. Not because of the difficulty of her work, but…
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May 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
A couple of years ago, I read all eleven of Toni Morrison's novels, and today, I finished reading "On Morrison" by Namwali Serpell. This is an exploration of Toni Morrison's genius work, which I highly recommend. #BrianaReads
I just finished reading "Dominion" by Addie E. Citchens and wrote a review for it on my blog. Spoiler alert: I thought it was perfection. I love Southern fiction by Black female authors, and she went to an HBCU - Jackson State University! #BrianaReads reviewsbybriana.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/d...
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
A Southern Black literary fiction book that is worth the hype, sign me up. I don’t know why it took me this long to read Dominion by Addie E. Citchens, but it’s Black History …
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February 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I just finished reading "Dominion" by Addie E. Citchens and wrote a review for it on my blog. Spoiler alert: I thought it was perfection. I love Southern fiction by Black female authors, and she went to an HBCU - Jackson State University! #BrianaReads reviewsbybriana.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/d...
I also read Samuel Beckett’s final play “Happy Days” and it’s the work of a mad man in all the best ways. It’s also such a great opportunity for a female actor to have a character that has the same punch as a Hamlet or Willy Loman. #BrianaReads
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I also read Samuel Beckett’s final play “Happy Days” and it’s the work of a mad man in all the best ways. It’s also such a great opportunity for a female actor to have a character that has the same punch as a Hamlet or Willy Loman. #BrianaReads
Yesterday I read “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin and I am not a fan of war stories so that okay was not a pleasant reading experience for me. I loved the anti-fascist and anti-war messaging though. #BrianaReads
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Yesterday I read “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin and I am not a fan of war stories so that okay was not a pleasant reading experience for me. I loved the anti-fascist and anti-war messaging though. #BrianaReads
I just finished reading Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and I fully understand why Pauline Kael called it “the finest work of American theater.” I am at a loss for words but I love some family drama and unaddressed resentments! #BrianaReads
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just finished reading Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and I fully understand why Pauline Kael called it “the finest work of American theater.” I am at a loss for words but I love some family drama and unaddressed resentments! #BrianaReads
Today I read Luigi Pirandello’s play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” which is a play within a play. I like a good meta moment but all I will say about this is that it’s…. A lot! #BrianaReads
December 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Today I read Luigi Pirandello’s play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” which is a play within a play. I like a good meta moment but all I will say about this is that it’s…. A lot! #BrianaReads