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bell hooks

hooks focuses on the intersection of race, capitalism, and gender and how these produce systems of oppression and class domination. She also addresses education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, love, and cultural criticism.

She has written across feminist theory, cultural criticism, pedagogy/education, memoir, poetry and essays. She has also published scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films and given public lectures.

According to the page, bell hooks has published more than 30 books in addition to numerous scholarly articles.

Good entry points depend on your interest: Feminism Is for Everybody for an accessible overview of feminism; Ain't I a Woman for race and gender; All About Love for her work on love; and Teaching To Transgress or Teaching Community for her pedagogy.

Some of her books form thematic groupings rather than a single narrative series. There is a Teaching series (Teaching To Transgress, Teaching Community, Teaching Critical Thinking). Otherwise readers usually follow subject areas,feminism, cultural criticism, pedagogy, or memoir,rather than a strict order.