Black History Month

• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
• God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer – Joseph Earl Thomas
• The New Naturals – Gabriel Bump
• Devil is Fine – John Vercher
• The Reformatory – Tananarive Due

• The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
• His Truth is Marching On – Jon Meacham
• The Three Mothers – Anna Malaika Tubbs
• Footnotes – Caseen Gaines
• The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson

• Me and Muhammad Ali by Jabari Asim and illustrated by AG Ford
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson and illustrated by Frank Morrison
• Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
• Parker Shines On by by Parker Curry & Jessica Curry; illustrated by Brittany Jackson; with an afterword by Misty Copeland
• Ruby’s Reunion Day Dinner by Angela Dalton and illustrated by Jestenia Southerland
• Build a House by Rhiannon Giddens and illustrated by Monica Mikai
• Change Sings by Amanda Gorman and pictures by Loren Long
• My Fade is Fresh by Shauntay Grant and illustrated by Kitt Thomas
• Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris and illustrated by Marissa Valdez
• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy and illustrated by Ekua Holmes
• When Langston Dances by Kaija Langley and illustrated by Keith Mallett
• The Bell Rang by James E. Ransome
• Family Reunion by Chad & Dad Richardson and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin
• The Talk by Alicia D. Williams and illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu

• Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia
• Being Clem by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
• JD and the Great Barber Battle written by J. Dillard and illustrated by Akeem S. Roberts
• Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles
• Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Irelan
• The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
• We Were the Fire by Sheila P. Moses
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Root Magic by Eden Royce
• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone, with illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile
• The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods

• March Forward, Girl from Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Patillo Beals
• The Tuskegee Airmen, Freedom Flyers of World War II by Brynn Baker
• The Port Chicago Fifty, Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
• Slavery and the Underground Railroad by Carin T. Ford
• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
• When Harriet met Sojourner by Catherine Clinton
• Freedom Summer, the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin
• Lincoln and Douglas, An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni
• The Teacher’s March! How Selma’s Teachers Changed History by Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
• Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlen Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
• New Kid by Jerry Craft
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• Who is the Man in the Air? by Gabe Soria and illustrated by Brittney Williams
• Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
• Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom by Whit Taylor & Kazimir Lee
• The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale

• I Riseby Marie Arnold
• Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi
• Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
• Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
• Kneel by Candace Buford
• Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon
• Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
• Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
• The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
• When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
• Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
• Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson with lyrics by Malik “Malik-16” Sharif
• This is My America by Kim Johnson
• One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
• The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson
• Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Punching the Air written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam with illustrations by Omar T. Pasha

NONFICTION

• The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang, with Dave “Davey D” Cook
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: Adapted for Young Adults by Jason Reynolds
• Race Against Time by Sandra Neil Wallace & Rich Wallace
• We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
• In the Name of Emmett Till by Robert H. Mayer with a foreword by Leslie-Burl McLemore
• The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
• We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
• Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults by Bryan Stevenson
• Black Girl Magic by Mahogany L. Browne and art by Jess X. Snow
• Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

BIOGRAPHIES

• Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson
• Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama
• Stupid Black Girl by by Aisha Redux with art by Brianna McCarthy
• I See the Promised Land text by Arthur Flowers and illustrations by Manu Chitrakar