February is Black History Month and we have some great reading suggestions that highlight Black voices. Find a list of recent and upcoming reads below and then head over to this link to learn about even more books that are available to fill your shelves.
- Anti-Racist Ally by Sophie Williams
- Raceless by Georgina Lawton
- Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend by Ben Philippe
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
- Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins
- The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
- Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
- Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
- The Devil You Know by Charles M. Blow
- Permission to Dream by Chris Gardner, with Mim Eichler Rivas
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen by Inger Burnett-Zeigler, PhD
- Own the Arena by Katrina M. Adams
- Loud Black Girls edited by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené
- We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
- Infinitum by Tim Fielder
- The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
- Girl Gurl Grrrl by Kenya Hunt
- How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
- Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
- The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher
- Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin
- Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
- A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams
- The Collection Plate by Kendra Allen
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
We also hosted a Door to Door featuring anti-racist reads in June. Our panel included Wendy Bartlett, the Collection Development Manager/Book Buyer for the Cuyahoga County Library in Ohio, K.C. Boyd, Library Media Specialist at Jefferson Academy in the District of Columbia Public Schools System, as well as Tracy Sherrod, Editorial Director of Amistad at HarperCollins. Watch that video below and find a list of titles discussed here.
-LLF