It’s Black History Month. So much of U.S. History has been distorted, to erase Black stories. In a Eurocentric society, it’s more important than ever to learn the history of African Americans and what they’ve contributed to America. Understand Black culture by reading Black books. Read about the importance of this month, here.
“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”- Carter G. Woodson (NPR)
Children’s Books
Curls by Ruth Forman; Illustrated by Geneva Bowers
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong; Illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Love Grows Everywhere by Barry Timms and Tisha Lee
The Magician’s Hat by Malcolm Mitchell; Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
Young Adult Books
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
A Song of Wraith and Ruin by Rosanne A. Brown
Romance
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
Non-Fiction
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Fiction
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
