Black History Month: Read Black Books

This month is so special to me! Do me a solid. Support Black authors, not only this month….but every month! Here are some recs! Happy Black History Month, y’all!

Here’s the list of books represented in the video:

⁃ Native Son by Richard Wright
⁃ Slay by Brittney Morris
⁃ Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
⁃ The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King
⁃ Long Wayne Down by Jason Reynolds
⁃ The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
⁃ Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
⁃ I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
⁃ Finding Me by Viola Davis
⁃ Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
⁃ Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography by Staci Robinson
⁃ The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
⁃ The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
⁃ Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway
⁃ You Make a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
⁃ Sisterhood Heals by Joy Harden Bradford, Ph. D.
⁃ Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
⁃ Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
⁃ Punch Me Up to the God’s by Brian Broome
⁃ Speak by Tunde Oyeneyin
⁃ Holler Child by Latoya Watkins
⁃ The Street by Ann Petry
⁃ Don’t Cry For Me by Daniel Black
⁃ Activate Your Greatness by Alex Toussaint
⁃ From Scratch by Tembi Locke
⁃ The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill
⁃ Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon
⁃ Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke
⁃ The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma
⁃ A Promised Land by Barack Obama
⁃ An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
⁃ The Queen of Sugar Hill by ReShonda Tate
⁃ The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
⁃ Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
⁃ The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
⁃ Rabbit by Patricia Williams
⁃ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
⁃ Solitary by Albert Woodfox
⁃ Sula by Toni Morrison
⁃ Equivalent Exchange by Christina C. Jones
⁃ Only For One Week by Natasha Bishop
⁃ Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
⁃ Black AF History by Michael Harriot
⁃ Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
⁃ Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
⁃ All About Love by bell hooks
⁃ One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
⁃ The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
⁃ Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
⁃ What Passes As Love by Trisha R. Thomas
⁃ Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
⁃ A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
⁃ How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
⁃ South to America by Imani Perry
⁃ Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
⁃ Madness by Antonia Hylton
⁃ Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
⁃ Roots by Alex Haley
⁃ Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
⁃ Heavy by Kiese Laymon
⁃ The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
⁃ The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
⁃ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
⁃ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
⁃ Assata by Assata Shakur