Our 2022 Black History Month Reading List
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Calling all book lovers! We’re back with a fresh book list for Black History Month.
This book list includes selections from the genres of fiction, nonfiction, history, children’s/young adult and more! We hope you enjoy the books our staff has compiled as recommended reading for this month- and beyond!
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Mae Among the Stars
By Roda Ahmed
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
By Jayne Allen
Queen Sugar
By Natalie Baszile
The Mothers
By Brit Bennett
Emergent Strategy
By Adrienne Maree Brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
By Adrienne Maree Brown
Eloquent Rage: Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By Brittney Cooper
Daughters of Jubilation
By Kara Lee Corthron
Women, Race & Class
By Angela Y. Davis
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Poetry
Edited by Camille T. Dungy
Freshwater
By Akwaeke Emezi
This Jazz Man
By Karen Ehrhardt
Black Spaces, White Spaces
By Carolyn Finney
Rooted in the Earth
By Dianne D. Glave
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
All About Love: New Visions
By Bell Hooks
The Book of Night Women
By Marlon James
The Broken Earth Trilogy
By N.K. Jemisin
Palmares
By Gayle Jones
Hood Feminism
By Mikki Kendall
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Black Girl, Call Home
By Jasmine Mans
Such a Fun Age
By Kiley Reid
Such Color
By Tracy K. Smith
How We Get Free
By Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By Anna Malaika Tubbs
Saving Ruby King
By Catherine Adel West
The Underground Railroad
By Colson Whitehead
Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
By Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah
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