Recommended Book List

Ananda Leeke reading Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One at Mocha Hut Book Reading on 11.18.07

Blessings All,

If you finished reading Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One and are waiting to read Books Two, Three, and Four, I suggest you check out the recommended list of books below. They are my personal favorites. These books should be good company until the next Love's Troubadours novel is published.

Enjoy!

Peace, Love, and Happy Reading,

Ananda Leeke

Recommended Book List

a. Spirituality, Sacred Rituals, Meditation, Yoga, Healing (self-love and self-acceptance), Chanting, and Chakras

i) Opening to Spirit: Contacting the Healing Power of the Chakras and Honouring African Spirituality by Caroline Shola Arewa

ii) Confirmation edited by Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor

iii) Carnival of the Spirit by Luisah Teush

iv) Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Caroline Myss

v) Sacred Woman by Queen Afua

vi) Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

vii) OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice by Cyndi Lee

viii) being black by Angel Kyodo Williams

ix) Dharma, Color, and Culture edited by Hilda Gutieerez Baldoquin

x) Dreaming Me by Jan Willis

xi) Anger by Thich Nhat Hanh

xii) A Woman's Worth by Marianne Williamson

xiii) The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson

xiv) Meditating with Mandalas by David Fontana

xv) Faith by Sharon Salzberg

xvi) Tapping the Power Within by Iyanla Vanzant

xvii) Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth

xviii) Elegant Choices, Healing Choices by Marsha Sinetar

xix) The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Hahn

xx) Chakra Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand

xxi) Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand

xxii) The Essential Rumi - Translation by Coleman Barks

xxiii) Awakening the Buddha Mind by Lama Surya Das

b. Love and Relationships

i) True Love by Thich Nhat Hahn

ii) Alchemy of the Heart by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Patricia R. Spadero

iii) Salvation by bell hooks

iv) All About Love by bell hooks

v) Communion by bell hooks

vi) Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hahn

vii) Intimacy by Osho

viii) I Hear A Symophony by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell

ix) Friends: A Love Story by Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance with Hilary Beard

c. Sexuality

i) What Your Mother Never Told You About Sex by Hilda Hutchinson

ii) Longing to Tell by Tricia Rose

iii) Soul Mates by Eric V. Copage

iv) Sexopedia by Anne Hooper

d. Art, Culture and Music

i) Haiti, History, and the Gods by Joan Daylan

ii) Mama Lola by Karen McCarthy Brown

iii) A Love Supreme by Ashley Kahn

iv) Black - A Celebration of Culture by Deborah Willis

v) The Guide of Black Washington by Sandra Fitzpatrick and Maria R. Goodwin

vi) An Autobiography of Black Chicago by Dempsey J. Travis

vii) The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism by Anne Meis Knupfer

viii) Maria Izquierdo by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

ix) The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones by Tritobia Hayes Benjamin

x) Elizabeth Catlett by Melanie Anne Herzog

xi) Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

xii) Basquiat by the Brooklyn Museum of Art

xiii) The Black Washingtonians by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture

xiv) Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects - The Legacy of African American Craft Art by the National Afro-American and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH

xv) Gendered Visions - The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists edited by Salah M. Hassan

xvi) Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues by Andrea D. Barnwell, Gloria Wade Gayles, and Leslie King-Hammond

xvii) Betye Saar by Jane H. Carpenter, David C. Driskell, and Betye Saar

e. Women's Biographies, Prose, and Poetry

i) Come Out The Wilderness by Estella Conwill Majozo

ii) The Black Woman edited by Toni Cade Bambara

iii) In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker

iv) To Be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry

v) Remembered Raptured by bell hooks

vi) Assata by Assata Shakur

vii) Josephine Baker, a compilation by Brian Hammond

viii) After Mecca - Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke

ix) Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby

x) Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson

xi) Nappy Edges by Ntozake Shange

xii) We Real Cool by bell hooks

xiii) The Will to Change by bell hooks

xiv) Rock My Soul by bell hooks

xv) The BAP Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess by Kalyn Johnson, Tracey Lewis, Karla Lightfoot, and Ginger Wilson

xvi) Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful by Susan Fales-Hill

xvii) Gumbo People by Sybil Stein

xviii) Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks

xix) One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant

xx) Art on My Mind by bell hooks

xxi) The Souls of Purgatory - The Spiritual Diary of a 17th Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesus by Nancy E. Van Deusen

f. Men's Biographies, Prose, and Poetry

i) Raising Fences by Michael Datcher

ii) Red Dirt Revival: A Poetic Memoir in 6 Breaths by Tim'm West

iii) Flirting by Tim'm West

iv) Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois

v) she by Saul Williams

vi) Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

vii) Blues City - A Walk in Oakland by Ishmael Reed

viii) Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

ix) The New Black Man by Mark Anthony Neal

g. Fiction

i) Black Like Us - A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Fiction edited by Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise

ii) Selah's Bed by Jenonyne Adams

iii) Cane River by Latita Tademy

iv) Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau by Jewell Parker Rhodes

v) When Butterflies Kiss by Sekou et al.

vi) A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed

vii) Hunger by Erica Simone Turnipseed

viii) Intimacy edited by Robert Fleming

ix) After Hours edited by Robert Fleming

x) Understand This by Jervey Tervalon

xi) Dead Above Ground by Jervey Tervalon

xii) Lita by Jervey Tervalon

xiii) More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith

xiv) Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat