To celebrate Black voices, we would like to highlight some of our favorite authors/writers and those our coworkers also recommend for various ages, genres, and interests.
Discussed:
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
Girl With the Louding Voice - Abi Abi Daré
His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie
Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
Homegoing, and Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
Between the World and Me, and The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Red at the Bone, and Before the Ever After - Jacqueline Woodson
Books by S.A. Cosby
Books by Coleson Whitehead
Behold the Dreamers, and How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
The Hate You Give - Angie Thomas
Books by Attica Locke
Books by Jerry Craft
Hair Love - Matthew A. Cherry
The Me I Choose To Be - Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Other recommendations
Classics
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. Du Bois
Things Fall Apart (series) - Chinua Achebe
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
Fic
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
Black Buck - Mateo Askaripour
Wild Seed (series) - Octavia E. Butler
The Fifth Season (series) - N.K. Jemisin
The Man Who Lived Underground - Richard Wright
Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nonfic
How the Word is Passed - Clint Smith
How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Memoir
Self Inflicted Wounds - Aisha Tyler
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed
Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player - Willie O'Ree
The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya
March (series) - John Lewis
The Radical King - Martin Luther King, Jr. (edited by Cornel West)
Haiku
Haiku: This Other World - Richard Wright
Morning Haiku -Sonia Sanchez
Urban Haiku and Other Selected Poems - Regina Harris Baiocchi
Wild Flowers - Crystal Simone Smith
Chocolate Chips: Contemporary Haiku - Michael Moore
YA
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Taking of Jake Livingston - Ryan Douglass
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine - Maika & Maritza Moulite
Black Birds in the Sky - Brandy Colbert
Books by Jason Reynolds
Books by Tiffany D. Jackson
Children of Blood and Bone (series) - Tomi Adeyemi
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms - Jamar J. Perry
Check, Please! (series) - Ngozi Ukazu
Kids' chapter books
Root Magic - Eden Royce
Kids' picture books
That Is My Dream - Langston Hughes
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