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Black History Month: Books

Recommended reading and viewing from the library's collection in celebration of Black History Month.

Fiction Books

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Such a Fun Age

The Hate U Give

Americanah

Just Above My Head

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

God Help the Child

The Turner House

Another Brooklyn

Invisible Man

The Nickel Boys

Homegoing

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Color Purple

Beloved

Five-Carat Soul

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Bluest Eye

Parable of the Sower

Another Country

Recent Nonfiction

The Hill We Climb: an inaugural poem for the country

The Light We Carry: overcoming in uncertain times

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Feel Free: essays

The Making of Black Lives Matter

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

The Purpose of Power: how we come together when we fall apart

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence

White Rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide

Democracy in Black: How race still enslaves the American soul

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

So You Want to Talk about Race

The Fire This Time: a new generation speaks about race

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Between the World and Me

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

I'm Still Here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness

Bad Feminist: Essays

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Locking up Our Own: crime and punishment in black America

Liberated Threads: Black women, style, and the global politics of soul

Negroland: A Memoir

Becoming Ms. Burton: From prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Emergent Strategy: shaping change, changing worlds

Call Us What We Carry: poems

Brown: Poems

Citizen: An American Lyric

Nonfiction Books

Unbowed: a memoir

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Fire Next Time

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?

The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never Caught: The Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge

The Blood of Emmett Till

Women, Race & Class

The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire

The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Long Walk to Freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela

The Wretched of the Earth

Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

Black Feminist Thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment

Sister Outsider: essays and speeches

This Bridge Called My Back: writings by radical women of color

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

Garvey and Garveyism

Rasta and Resistance: from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney

Children's Books

Children of Blood and Bone

For Everyone

Wakanda Forever

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

As Brave as You

Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me

Ghost

Patina

Sunny

Lu

Akata Witch

Akata Warrior

Rosa

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Gold Cadillac

Amazing Grace

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Freedom in Congo Square

Trombone Shorty

Yesterday I Had the Blues

When I Am Old with You

Thunder Rose

Tar Beach

My Family Plays Music

Bigmama’s

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Change Sings: a children's anthem

Malcolm X

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