One way to elevate black voices is to read and recommend books by black authors. Check out the recommendations below and feel free to ask a librarian for more recommendations! This list is curated for adult readers by Katie Rickard and Eva Silverstone.
Short Stories | Fiction | Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Essays/Memoir/Non-fiction | Poetry
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Short Stories
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Lot by Bryan Washington
Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Jazz by Toni Morrison
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Open City by Teju Cole
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Mothers by Britt Bennett
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Essays/Memoir/Non-fiction
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Poetry
Homie by Danez Smith
Voices: Poems by Lucille Clifton
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker
~ Eva - Arts Education Specialist
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