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Black History Month: Featured Books


Fiction & Literature

If Beale Street Could Talk
Brown Girl, Brownstones
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Another Brooklyn
Libertie
Well-Read Black Girl
Tales of the Out and the Gone
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Color Purple
The Civil Rights Reader
The Underground Railroad
Thick : And Other Essays
The Coldest Winter Ever
The Hate U Give
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Binti
The Fifth Season
The Poet X
Song of Solomon

Picture Books

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar
I'm From book
Magnificent Homespun Brown
Your Legacy
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Who Will You Be?
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie
Heart and Soul
Going down Home with Daddy
Black Is a Rainbow Color
D Is for Drinking Gourd
Who Are Your People?
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!
This Is the Rope
Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me
My Name Is Truth : The Life of Sojourner Truth
Swing Sisters
I Color Myself Different
Hair Love
Preaching to the Chickens : The Story of Young John Lewis
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem
Sail Away : Poems
Meet Miss Fancy
Rosa
Henry's Freedom Box
All Because You Matter

Non-Fiction

Poetry