Books for Black History Month
Books for Black History Month
A curated selection of books by Black and African American authors. The first section contains nonfiction books available electronically. The second section contains both nonfiction and fiction titles that you can request for pickup from the library. We hope you find something to meet your reading interests.
Ebooks
Nonfiction
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?, author.
2014
Hooks, Bell.
2008
Evans, Stephanie Y., et al.
SUNY Press, 2019.
Colbert, Soyica Diggs.
Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Shames, Stephen, and Bobby Seale.
Abrams, 2016.
Lindsey, Treva B.
University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Jackson, Tim.
University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth.
University of Washington Press, 2016.
Nix, Echol Lee, and Keturah C. Nix.
Schlager Group, 2018.
Nix Jr., Echol, and Keturah C. Nix.
Grey House Publishing, 2017.
Print Books
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Nonfiction
Gilbert, Kenyatta R.
Baylor University Press, 2016.
Sterling, Dorothy.
W.W. Norton, 1984.
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo.
Polity Press, 2015.
Wright, Kai.
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2009.
Harris, Duchess.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Hunter, Marcus Anthony, and Zandria F. Robinson.
University of California Press, 2018.
Godfrey, Mark, et al.
Tate Publishing, 2017.
Griffin, Rachel Alicia, and Michaela D. E. Meyer.
Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author.
2009
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama.
漏2003
Robeson, Paul, Jr., 1927-2014.
漏2001-漏2010
Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
2011
Obama, Barack.
漏2004
Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
2014
Broom, Sarah M., author.
2019
Williams, Stanley Tookie, 1953-2005.
漏2007
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Small Press Expo Collection; Aydin, Andrew, author.; Powell, Nate, illustrator.
2013
Bernard, Emily, 1967- author.
2019
Samuelsson, Marcus.; Chambers, Veronica.
2013
Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950- author.
2018
Perry, Imani, 1972- author.
2019
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author.
2015
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
2017
Morrison, Toni, author.; Coates, Ta-Nehisi, writer of foreword.
2017
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
1973
Fiction
Jemisin, N. K., author.
2018
Mosley, Walter, author.
2020
Clemmons, Zinzi, author.
2017
Ward, Jesmyn, author.
2017
Thompson-Spires, Nafissa, author.
2018
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.
2018
Thomas, Angie, author.
2017
Iweala, Uzodinma author.
2018
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author.
2019
Gyasi, Yaa, author.
2016
Bennett, Brit, author.
2016
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.; West, Margaret Genevieve, editor, writer of introduction.;
Jones, Tayari, writer of foreword.; Hurston, Zora Neale.
2020
Thomas, Sheree R.
漏2004
Childrens Books
Alexander, Kwame, author.; Nelson, Kadir, illustrator.
2019
Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.; Little Bee Books, publisher.; Christie,
R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator.; Evans, Freddi Williams, writer of foreword.
2016
Nyong'o, Lupita, author.; Harrison, Vashti, illustrator.
2019
Steptoe, Javaka, 1971- author, illustrator.; Little, Brown and Company, publisher.
2016
Loney, Andrea J., author.; Gutierrez, Rudy, illustrator.
2019
Curry, Parker, author.; Curry, Jessica, author.; Jackson, Bea, 1986- artist.
2019