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Black History Month: Adult Reading

Contemporary Fiction

Black Cake: a Read with Jenna Pick by Charmaine Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780593358337

Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander
ISBN: 9781982163686

Publication Date: 2022-02-22
Decent People by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
ISBN: 9781635575323

Publication Date: 2023-01-17
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black
ISBN: 9781335425737

Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
ISBN: 9781250782953

Publication Date: 2022-01-25
The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon
ISBN: 9781538716687

Publication Date: 2022-08-02
The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard
ISBN: 9780062979094

Publication Date: 2022-03-08
Moonrise over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks
ISBN: 9781643755397

Publication Date: 2023-11-28
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
ISBN: 9780593318935

Publication Date: 2022-06-07
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
ISBN: 9780063249875

Publication Date: 2023-01-03
A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson
ISBN: 9781250347213

Publication Date: 2024-08-20
River Sing Me Home: a GMA Book Club Pick by Eleanor Shearer
ISBN: 9780593548042

Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson
ISBN: 9780062964588

Publication Date: 2021-08-03
A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
ISBN: 9780525657644

Publication Date: 2023-02-07
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
ISBN: 9780593315415

Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Wahala by Nikki May
ISBN: 9780063084247

Publication Date: 2022-01-11
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
ISBN: 9780593185360

Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
ISBN: 9780778334071

Publication Date: 2023-07-18
The World We Make by N.k. Jemisin
ISBN: 9780316509893

Publication Date: 2022-11-01
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
ISBN: 9780593299005

Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Yonder by Jabari Asim
ISBN: 9781982163167

Publication Date: 2022-01-11

Nonfiction

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
ISBN: 9781984854995

Publication Date: 2021-06-08
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
ISBN: 9781631498909

Publication Date: 2021-05-18
The Black Angels by Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780593544921

Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Black Food by Bryant Terry (Editor)
ISBN: 9781984859723

Publication Date: 2021-10-19
The Cause of Freedom by Jonathan Scott Holloway
ISBN: 9780190915193

Publication Date: 2021-02-04
Driving the Green Book by Alvin Hall
ISBN: 9780063271968

Publication Date: 2023-01-31
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
ISBN: 9780316492935

Publication Date: 2021-06-01
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
ISBN: 9781501132735

Publication Date: 2019-10-08
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
ISBN: 9781984801197

Publication Date: 2021-03-30
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
ISBN: 9780593729908

Publication Date: 2024-09-03
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving by Tyrone McKinley Freeman
ISBN: 9780252085352

Publication Date: 2020-09-29
The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr.; David J. Dennis Sr.
ISBN: 9780063011427

Publication Date: 2022-05-10
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi; Joshua David Stein
ISBN: 9781524732622

Publication Date: 2019-04-09
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit by Noliwe Rooks; Henry Louis Gates (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9780593492420

Publication Date: 2024-07-23
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
ISBN: 9781469653662

Publication Date: 2019-10-21
Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams; Jon Sternfeld
ISBN: 9780593240397

Publication Date: 2023-08-22
South to America by Imani Perry
ISBN: 9780062977403

Publication Date: 2022-01-25
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates; Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9780525559535

Publication Date: 2019-04-02
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
ISBN: 9780316312479

Publication Date: 2016-11-15
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
ISBN: 9780593239773

Publication Date: 2022-02-22
Thunder at the Gates by Douglas R. Egerton
ISBN: 9780465096640

Publication Date: 2016-11-01
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
ISBN: 9781538737897

Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
ISBN: 9780395109328

Publication Date: 1970-10-01
Wake by Rebecca Hall; Hugo Martínez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781982115180

Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Walking in My Joy by Jenifer Lewis
ISBN: 9780063079656

Publication Date: 2022-08-30

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