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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.

If I Had Two Wings: Stories (Paperback)

By Randall Kenan

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ISBN: 9780393867404

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 10th, 2021

Hell of a Book: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jason Mott

$27.00

ISBN: 9780593330968

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Published: Dutton - June 29th, 2021

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Paperback)

By Pauli Murray

$21.00

ISBN: 9780807072097

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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 1999

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Paperback)

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)

$18.00

ISBN: 9780812980028

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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 21st, 2009

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

All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective (Paperback)

By Lenard D. Moore (Editor), Jaki Shelton Green (Introduction by)

$17.95

ISBN: 9781949467338

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Published: Carolina Wren Press - June 2nd, 2020

Conjure Blues: Poems (Paperback)

By Jaki Shelton Green

$12.95

ISBN: 9780932112378

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Published: Carolina Wren Press - June 1st, 1996

The Geography of Jazz (Paperback)

By Lenard D. Moore

$16.95

ISBN: 9781949467307

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Published: Blair - September 1st, 2020

Cardinal (Paperback)

By Tyree Daye

$16.00

ISBN: 9781556595738

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - October 6th, 2020

Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook (Savor the South Cookbooks) (Hardcover)

By Bridgette A. Lacy

$21.00

ISBN: 9781469622453

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Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 7th, 2015

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colson Whitehead

$28.95

ISBN: 9780385545136

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Published: Doubleday - September 14th, 2021

The Hate U Give (Hardcover)

By Angie Thomas, Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)

$18.99

ISBN: 9780062498533

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Published: Balzer + Bray - February 28th, 2017

The Prophets (Hardcover)

By Robert Jones, Jr.

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ISBN: 9780593085684

Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021

Black Cake: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Charmaine Wilkerson

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593358337

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Published: Ballantine Books - February 1st, 2022

Imago (Lilith's Brood #3) (Paperback)

By Octavia E. Butler

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ISBN: 9781538753736

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Published: Grand Central Publishing - December 28th, 2021

Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) (Hardcover)

By Marlon James

$30.00

ISBN: 9780735220201

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Published: Riverhead Books - February 15th, 2022

No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga #1) (Hardcover)

By Cadwell Turnbull

$26.99

ISBN: 9781982603724

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Published: Blackstone Publishing - September 7th, 2021

Recitatif: A Story (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 9780593315033

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Published: Knopf - February 1st, 2022

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel (Hardcover)

By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

$28.99

ISBN: 9780062942937

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Published: Harper - August 24th, 2021

Deacon King Kong: A Novel (Paperback)

By James McBride

$17.00

ISBN: 9780735216730

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Published: Riverhead Books - February 2nd, 2021

Salvage the Bones: A Novel (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward

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ISBN: 9781608196265

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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

Tar Baby (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison

$15.00

ISBN: 9781400033447

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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004

If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

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ISBN: 9780307275936

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Published: Vintage - October 10th, 2006

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

By Michelle Alexander

$18.99

ISBN: 9781620971932

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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)

$32.00

ISBN: 9780593134047

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Published: One World - February 2nd, 2021

Dear Martin (Paperback)

By Nic Stone

$9.99

ISBN: 9781101939529

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Published: Ember - September 4th, 2018

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

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South (Paperback)

By William H. Chafe (Editor), Raymond Gavins (Editor), Robert Korstad (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781620976821

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Published: New Press - September 7th, 2021

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia Cover Image

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Paperback)

By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia

$10.99

ISBN: 9780062698735

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Published: Balzer + Bray - January 7th, 2020

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

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)

By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)

$38.00

ISBN: 9780593230572

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Published: One World - November 16th, 2021

I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 (Hardcover)

By William R. Ferris, Lonnie G. Bunch (Foreword by)

$40.00

ISBN: 9781496831620

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Published: University Press of Mississippi - April 1st, 2021

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback)

By Rebecca Skloot

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ISBN: 9781400052189

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Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011

Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Movement (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

By Deborah D. Douglas

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ISBN: 9781640499157

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Published: Moon Travel - January 12th, 2021

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson

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ISBN: 9780812984965

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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Paperback)

By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by)

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ISBN: 9781984855046

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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - September 7th, 2021

Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election (Paperback)

By Paul Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick

$21.00

ISBN: 9781250155719

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Published: Picador - January 11th, 2022

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (Hardcover)

By Tarana Burke (Editor), Brené Brown (Editor)

$27.00

ISBN: 9780593243626

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Published: Random House - April 27th, 2021

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)

By Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword by)

$16.95

ISBN: 9781642595253

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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2021

Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland (Hardcover)

By Issac J. Bailey

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ISBN: 9781635420289

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Published: Other Press - October 6th, 2020

A Black Women's History of the United States (Paperback)

By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

$16.00

ISBN: 9780807001998

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Published: Beacon Press - March 16th, 2021

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00

ISBN: 9780812993547

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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

$26.00

ISBN: 9780593299005

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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - January 18th, 2022

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World (Hardcover)

By Wil Haygood

$30.00

ISBN: 9780525656876

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Published: Knopf - October 19th, 2021

Yellow Wife: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sadeqa Johnson

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ISBN: 9781982149116

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Published: Simon & Schuster - December 28th, 2021

The Awkward Black Man (Paperback)

By Walter Mosley

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ISBN: 9780802156853

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Published: Grove Press - September 21st, 2021

A Girl Is A Body of Water (Paperback)

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

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ISBN: 9781951142551

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Published: Tin House Books - June 15th, 2021

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel (Paperback)

By Cherie Jones

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ISBN: 9780316536998

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Published: Back Bay Books - October 12th, 2021

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (Paperback)

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

$20.00

ISBN: 9781984880352

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Published: Penguin Books - January 18th, 2022

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), Danny Lyon (Photographs by), Vann R. Newkirk II. (Afterword by) Cover Image

Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)

By Julian Bond, Pamela Horowitz (Foreword by), Jeanne Theoharis (Introduction by), Danny Lyon (Photographs by), Vann R. Newkirk II. (Afterword by)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780807014783

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Published: Beacon Press - January 11th, 2022

Giovanni's Room (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

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ISBN: 9780345806567

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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) (Mass Market)

By James Baldwin

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ISBN: 9780345806543

Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 (Paperback)

By James Baldwin

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ISBN: 9780807006566

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Published: Beacon Press - September 21st, 2021

Juneteenth (Revised) (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson (Preface by)

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ISBN: 9780593314616

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Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2021

Invisible Man (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Ralph Ellison

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ISBN: 9780679732761

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Published: Vintage - March 14th, 1995

The Underground Railroad: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead

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ISBN: 9780345804327

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Published: Anchor - January 30th, 2018

The Intuitionist: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead

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ISBN: 9780385493000

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Published: Anchor - January 4th, 2000

Zone One (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead

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ISBN: 9780307455178

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Published: Anchor - July 10th, 2012

The Nickel Boys: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead

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ISBN: 9780345804341

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Published: Anchor - June 30th, 2020

Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets #62) (Paperback)

By Tongo Eisen-Martin

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ISBN: 9780872868755

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Published: City Lights Books - September 21st, 2021

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 9781324004615

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 8th, 2020