Clutch magazine released their 2013 list of books by Black women for Black women list.
I found a lot of great ones and added them to my growing "to read" list.
Some include:
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Sula by Toni Morrison
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Various
Ain’t I A Woman by bell hooks
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
Ones from the list I've already read and recommend:
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Gathering of Waters by Bernice McFadden
Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Before You Suffocate your own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Happy Reading!