Black History Month

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Celebrate Black History Month with our cultivated list of books on Black history and Black joy! You'll find a mix of fiction and non-fiction books that address the history of Black struggle in America as well as books that focus on Black triumph and job. This month we want to acknowledge the history of inequality and discrimination that Black people endured, but also celebrate how much has changed. At the top of our list you'll find books by North Carolina writers!

For books for young readers, see our list here

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If I Had Two Wings: Stories By Randall Kenan Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393867404
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 10th, 2021

Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize

Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.


Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner and A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel) By Jason Mott Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593330968
Published: Dutton - June 29th, 2021

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***

***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist


Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family By Pauli Murray Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780807072097
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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 1999

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents.


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 21st, 2009

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.


All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective By Lenard D. Moore (Editor), Jaki Shelton Green (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Lenard D. Moore (Editor), Jaki Shelton Green (Introduction by)
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Published: Carolina Wren Press - June 2nd, 2020

An anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective edited by founder Lenard D. Moore.


Conjure Blues: Poems By Jaki Shelton Green Cover Image
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Published: Carolina Wren Press - June 1st, 1996

The Geography of Jazz By Lenard D. Moore Cover Image
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Published: Blair - September 1st, 2020

A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.


Cardinal By Tyree Daye Cover Image
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - October 6th, 2020

Tyree Daye's Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic "Green Book"-- the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also serves as an imperfect family album.


Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook (Savor the South Cookbooks) By Bridgette A. Lacy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781469622453
Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 7th, 2015

Bridgette A. Lacy offers an ode to a meal that, notably in the Sabbath-minding South, is more than a meal. Sunday dinner, Lacy observes, is "a state of mind.


Harlem Shuffle: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
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Published: Doubleday - September 14th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).


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The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner By Angie Thomas, Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Angie Thomas, Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)
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Published: Balzer + Bray - February 28th, 2017

8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best  ·  William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!

"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds


The Prophets By Robert Jones, Jr. Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593085684
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021

Best Book of the Year
NPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe • TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW


Black Cake: A Novel By Charmaine Wilkerson Cover Image
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Published: Ballantine Books - February 1st, 2022

COMING SOON TO HULU • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored&r


Imago (Lilith's Brood #3) By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - December 28th, 2021

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.


Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) By Marlon James Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780735220201
Published: Riverhead Books - February 15th, 2022

“Masterfully flips the first installment on its head... James makes the mythic tantalizingly real.’” —Esquire
 
"Even more brilliant than the first.” —Buzzfeed

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2022 pick

 


No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga #1) By Cadwell Turnbull Cover Image
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Published: Blackstone Publishing - September 7th, 2021

The captivating first novel in The Convergence Saga by Cadwell Turnbull, the award-winning author of The Lesson

An Indie Next Pick

A LibraryReads Pick

Named A Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Buzzfeed, Forbes, GoodReads, Marie Claire, The Millions, and Tor.com


Recitatif: A Story By Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Introduction by)
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Published: Knopf - February 1st, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith
 


The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Cover Image
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Published: Harper - August 24th, 2021

An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION


Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 2nd, 2021

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
 
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"

Oprah's Book Club Pick

Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

A Washington Post Notable Novel


Salvage the Bones: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

Winner of the National Book Award

Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.


Tar Baby (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner


If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - October 10th, 2006

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review).


The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora


Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor) Cover Image
By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
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Published: One World - February 2nd, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.


Dear Martin By Nic Stone Cover Image
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Published: Ember - September 4th, 2018

"Powerful, wrenching.” –JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down

"Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys


Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South By William H. Chafe (Editor), Raymond Gavins (Editor), Robert Korstad (Editor) Cover Image
By William H. Chafe (Editor), Raymond Gavins (Editor), Robert Korstad (Editor)
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Published: New Press - September 7th, 2021

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts


Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.


The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780593230572
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Published: One World - November 16th, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.


I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 By William R. Ferris, Lonnie G. Bunch (Foreword by) Cover Image
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Published: University Press of Mississippi - April 1st, 2021

In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches.


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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Cover Image
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Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly


Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Movement (Travel Guide) By Deborah D. Douglas Cover Image
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Published: Moon Travel - January 12th, 2021

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S.


Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Cover Image
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.


His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by)
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - September 7th, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America 


Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election By Paul Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick Cover Image
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Published: Picador - January 11th, 2022

“[An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King’s imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK’s campaign. It’s a story we can all learn from—a story of overlooked heroes and the power each of us has to create change.” —Barack Obama

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s best books of February 2021


You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience By Tarana Burke (Editor), Brené Brown (Editor) Cover Image
By Tarana Burke (Editor), Brené Brown (Editor)
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Published: Random House - April 27th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.


We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice By Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword by)
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2021

A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.


Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland By Issac J. Bailey Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781635420289
Published: Other Press - October 6th, 2020

In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in an America that still supports Trump.


A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History) By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross Cover Image
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Published: Beacon Press - March 16th, 2021

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.


Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT


Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593299005
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - January 18th, 2022

“Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers


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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World By Wil Haygood Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525656876
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Published: Knopf - October 19th, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


Yellow Wife: A Novel By Sadeqa Johnson Cover Image
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Published: Simon & Schuster - December 28th, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick!


The Awkward Black Man By Walter Mosley Cover Image
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Published: Grove Press - September 21st, 2021

A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers--award-winning author, Walter Mosley.


A Girl Is A Body of Water By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Cover Image
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Published: Tin House Books - June 15th, 2021

“Makumbi is such an honest, truthful writer. . . . I loved every single page.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

A Best Book of the Year at TIMEThe Washington PostO, the Oprah Magazine; BBC

Winner of the Jhalak Prize


How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel By Cherie Jones Cover Image
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Published: Back Bay Books - October 12th, 2021

In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."

In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister.


The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - January 18th, 2022

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.

“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again


Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement By Julian Bond, Pamela Horowitz (Foreword by), Jeanne Theoharis (Introduction by), Vann R. Newkirk, II (Contributions by), Danny Lyon (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Julian Bond, Pamela Horowitz (Foreword by), Jeanne Theoharis (Introduction by), Vann R. Newkirk, II (Contributions by), Danny Lyon (Contributions by)
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Published: Beacon Press - January 11th, 2022

A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.


Giovanni's Room (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love—"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic).


Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780345806543
Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity—told “with vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story" (The New York Times).


The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 By James Baldwin Cover Image
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Published: Beacon Press - September 21st, 2021

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”


Juneteenth (Revised) (Vintage International) By Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson (Preface by) Cover Image
By Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson (Preface by)
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Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2021

“Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., TIME


Invisible Man (Vintage International) By Ralph Ellison Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - March 14th, 1995

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. 


The Underground Railroad: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - January 30th, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.


The Intuitionist: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - January 4th, 2000

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.


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Zone One By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - July 10th, 2012

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. "One of the best books of the year." —Esquire


The Nickel Boys: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - June 30th, 2020

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR
 


Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets #62) By Tongo Eisen-Martin Cover Image
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Published: City Lights Books - September 21st, 2021

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance

2022 California Book Award Finalist

Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation, an invitation to a journey through Black America.


The Selected Works of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 8th, 2020

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.


Magical Negro By Morgan Parker Cover Image
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Published: Tin House Books - February 5th, 2019

A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner!


Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling (CBC Massey Lectures) By Esi Edugyan Cover Image
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Published: House of Anansi Press - September 28th, 2021

An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade.


The Portable Frederick Douglass By Frederick Douglass, John Stauffer (Editor), John Stauffer (Introduction by), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Frederick Douglass, John Stauffer (Editor), John Stauffer (Introduction by), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Introduction by)
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Published: Penguin Classics - September 27th, 2016

A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
 


Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

 The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.


Barracoon: The Story of the Last
By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780062748218
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Published: Amistad - January 7th, 2020

New York Times Bestseller •  TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Boo


Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights By Gretchen Sorin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781631498695
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Published: Liveright - December 29th, 2020

Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force."

The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life.


Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition By Schomburg Center (Editor), Michelle D. Commander (Editor), Michelle D. Commander (Introduction by), Kevin Young (Foreword by), Kevin Young (Series edited by) Cover Image
By Schomburg Center (Editor), Michelle D. Commander (Editor), Michelle D. Commander (Introduction by), Kevin Young (Foreword by), Kevin Young (Series edited by)
$22.00
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ISBN: 9780143136088
Published: Penguin Classics - February 16th, 2021

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young


Aftershocks: A Memoir By Nadia Owusu Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781982111229
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 12th, 2021

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.

“In


The Other Black Girl: A Novel By Zakiya Dalila Harris Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982160135
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Published: Atria Books - June 1st, 2021

Now a Hulu Original Series

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Morning America and Read with Marie Claire Book Club Pick and a People Best Book of Summer

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Marie C


The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 By Tim Madigan, Hilary Beard Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250787699
Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) - May 11th, 2021

One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People By Kekla Magoon Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781536214185
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Published: Candlewick - November 8th, 2021

A National Book Award Finalist
A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book