I know, I know, I'm joining another challenge. Now I'm at the "what the hell" point.  One more won't kill me.

So, Lhea of the Black Bookshelf has created a great Black Classics Challenge to read books by Black authors published before 1920. Participants are encouraged to also read non-Western authors of African descent as well. Another very doable challenge that will simply require me to visit my overflowing bookshelves full of not yet read books. I haven't made a list for the last few challenges so I'll do one for this one. I'm committing to the experienced level which is 7 books. My tentative list includes:
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
Iola Leroy by Frances E.W. Harper
The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (comprised of 3 novels)
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson
The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt
A Voice From the South by Anna Julia Cooper
Blake or The Huts of Africa by Martin R. Delany (*re-read)

I'm assuming that re-reads and crossovers are acceptable in this challenge. I think this makes 7 challenges...I've lost count. I may do a post next week to recap all the challenges to which I'm committed.