Ask Ciiku: Please recommend some reads

Hi! You are doing wonderful Ciiku.
ION, you keep mentioning reading as a way to find yourself, and ultimately loving yourself. are there any reads you would recommend? I am turning 30 in 2 years and this is a gift I would want to give myself by then.

Anon

Dear Anon,

First of all, thank you so much for saying that. I am really grateful.

I really took it as a challenge to get you some things to read and this list is not exhaustive at all. I assume you follow me on twitter because I usually share more on there.

Books – Only gonna suggest 5 off the top of my head

1. So long a letter – Miriam Ba
2. Joys of Motherhood – Buchi Emecheta
3. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda N Adichie
4. salt – nayyirah waheed
5. Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde

Links – Took more time with these ones

• Beauty is Broken

• Women Policing Women: the Prison Of Belief

• “Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor

• Becoming Ugly
• Hunger makes me
• George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates

• To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind In Life

• Practicing The Subtle Art Of Detachment

• Soft, Squishy, Fleshy Parts

• Girls Who Steal

• What Women Don’t Say ( Also check out her “How to make dreams come true” essay)

• You are Probably Basic and Boring

• The female price of male pleasure
• The Snarling Girl

Happy Reading.

Ciiku