For Black History month, we've put together a list of titles we recommend that are written by Black authors. Check out this list of books and add some to your reading list!
For Black History month, we've put together a list of titles we recommend that are written by Black authors. 📚
Reading books by Black authors and about Black History can help to open our eyes to the past and shed light on creating a different future.
February Reading List
- Lighting the Fires of Freedom (Janet Dewart Bell)
- The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
- Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)
- Chasing Light (Michelle Obama)
- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Ordinary Light (Tracy K. Smith)
- The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
- The Skin I'm In (Sharon G. Flake)
- Dreamland Burning (Jennifer Latham)
- The Poet X (Elizabeth Acevedo)
- For Everyone (Jason Reynolds)
- Piecing Me Together (Renée Watson)
- American Street (Ibi Zoboi)
- Pride (Ibi Zoboi)
- X: a novel (Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon)
- Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson)
- The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
- Sing Unburied Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
- The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
- Kindred (Octavia E. Butler)
Have you read any of the books on this list?
Which one(s) were your favorite?
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