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Black History Month Reading List
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Non-Fiction
Vice President Kamala Harris by Malaika Adero
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander *#
Insurrection by Hawa Allan
Black Girl in Love (with herself) by Trey Anthony *
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin *
Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard *
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Berry *
Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay *
The Devil You Know by Charles M. Blow *
The Black History Book edited by Prof. Nemata Blyden
Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown *
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant *#
You Are Your Best Thing edited by Tarana Burke *
New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby *
Queen Bey by Veronica Chambers
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates *
Make Good the Promises edited by Kinshasha Conwill
Eloquent Rage by Brittney C. Cooper *
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Non-Fiction (cont.)
Twisted by Emma Dabiri *
Living In Color by Tommy Davidson *
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon
The Speeches of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing *
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice by Deborah Riley Draper *
Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew *
Entertaining Race by Michael Eric Dyson
Long Time Coming by Michael Eric Dyson *
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt *
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge *
Well-Read Black Girl edited by Glory Edim
From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
Footnotes by Caseen Gaines *
The Annotated African American Folktales edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates Jr. *
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
African American Literature by Keith Gilyard
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Non-Fiction (cont.)
Defining Moments in Black History by Dick Gregory *
Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones *
Do Right By Me by Valerie I. Harrison
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya V. Hartman *
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston *^
Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins *
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse *
Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi *
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi *#
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi *
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors *
Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz *
Heavy by Kiese Laymon *^
Still Breathing by Suzette Llewellyn *
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle Mays *
Dream Team by Jack McCallum *#
I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Non-Fiction (cont.)
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles *
The Dawn of Detroit by Tiya Miles *
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
Teaching Black History to White People by Leonard M. Moore
Five Days by Wes Moore *
Black Ink edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo *^
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors by David Pilgrim
GuRu by RuPaul *
I Ain't Studdin' Ya by Bobby Rush
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad *#^
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal D. Smith *
Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth *
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson *
Overground Railroad by Candacy A. Taylor *
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby *
The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernández *
Nothing Compares 2 U by Touré *
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs *
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Non-Fiction (cont.)
The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward *
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson *
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young *
Unsung by Kevin Young
Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad
Biography
JAY-Z by Michael Eric Dyson
Hunger by Roxane Gay *
Rosa Parks by Darryl Mace
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela *
Kamala's Way by Dan Morain *#^
James Baldwin by Bill Mullen
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama *#
Becoming by Michelle Obama *#^
Mo'meta Blues by Questlove
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae *
Maverick by Jason L. Riley *
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Cooking
Carla Hall's Soul Food by Carla Hall *
A Taste of Africa by Dorinda Hafner
Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook by Albert Lukas *
Meals, Music, and Muses by Alexander Smalls
Humor
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish *
F*ck Your Diet by Chloé Hilliard
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry *
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend by Ben Philippe
You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson *
Poetry
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman *#
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans *
dayliGht by Roya Marsh *
I Am the Rage by Martina McGowan *
The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker *
Ghost In a Black Girl's Throat by Khalisa Rae
* Available via library streaming & download services
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Poetry (cont.)
African American Poetry edited by Kevin Young
Travel
U.S. Civil Rights Trail by Deborah D. Douglas
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