This page has the list of the books I have read for Black History Month, other notable books by African Americans or others of African descent, as well as books by others about black history.
Official Black History Month Reading Selections
2011: 50 Years and Other Poems by James Weldon Johnson
2012: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2013: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
2014: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2015: Kindred by Octavia Butler
2016: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
2017: (1) Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
(2) Black Boy (American Hunger) by Richard Wright
2018: Poems 1921-1930 by Langston Hughes
2019: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
2020: (1) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2021: (1) Poems 1931-1940 by Langston Hughes
(2) How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
2022: (1) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
(2) The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray
2023: (1) Allensworth The Freedom Colony by Alice Royal
(2) Best Short Stories by Black Authors (edited by Langston Hughes)
2024: (1) Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
(2) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
2025: (1) Dusk of Dawn by W. E. B. Du Bois
Other notable books by African American, African, or other black authors:
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Part 1)
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Part 2)
After the Dance by Edwidge Dandicat
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Feeling Black Talk by Nikki Giovanni
Black Judgment by Nikki Giovanni
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Brian Mealer
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Coal by Audre Lorde
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
Hadriana In All My Dreams by Rene Depestre
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Honor Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Hurricane Child by Kasen Callender
I Greet The Dawn (Poems) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
James by Percival Everett
Jazz Poems by Various Authors
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Luster by Raven Leilani
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, et al.
A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls Lanier & Lisa Frazier Page
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Omar by Rhiannon Giddens (with Michael Abels)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Passing by Nella Larsen
Poems by Phillis Wheatley
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Raisin in the Sun (Audio production) by Lorraine Hansberry
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Tiger and the Tomboy, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Owl Answers, and A Lesson in Dead Language by Adrienne Kennedy
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Two-Headed Woman by Lucille Clifton
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Books on Black History by other authors:
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein
Reconstructing the Gospel by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Vol.1 by M. T. Anderson
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark Noll
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Devil In The Grove by Gilbert King
The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Red Tails, Black Wings by John B. Holway
The Slaves’ War by Andrew Ward
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cataract House by Kamala Boeck and Ayrian Gridiron
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