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
Other notable books by African American, African, or other black authors:
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
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
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Honor Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah
I Greet The Dawn (Poems) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Poems by Phillis Wheatley
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Two-Headed Woman by Lucille Clifton
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Part 1)
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Part 2)
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Hadriana In All My Dreams by Rene Depestre
A Raisin in the Sun (Audio production) by Lorraine Hansberry
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls Lanier & Lisa Frazier Page
God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Coal by Audre Lorde
Omar by Rhiannon Giddens (with Michael Abels)
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Jazz Poems by Various Authors
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
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
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