Black History Month

Kids

• The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
• All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Me I Choose to Be by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
• Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by E.B. Lewis
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham, Illustrated by C.G. Esperanza
• Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford (Read now on OverDrive)
• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We Wait for the Sun by Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe, Illustrated by Raissa Figueroa
• The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson (Read now on OverDrive)

Teens

• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Read now on OverDrive)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – also on DVD (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Classic Fiction

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Fences by August Wilson – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Read now on OverDrive)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sister, Sister by Eric Jerome Dickey (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Wedding by Dorothy West (Read now on OverDrive)

Current Fiction

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• It’s Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Read now on OverDrive)
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Graphic Novels

• Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Alverne Ball, art by Stacey Robinson
• After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Read now on OverDrive)
• Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
• Bitter Root by David Walker & Chuck Brown, art by Sanford Greene
• Black by Kwanza Osajyefo
• Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black AF: America’s Sweetheart by Kwanza Osajyefo
• BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, art by Ben Passmore
• Class Act by Jerry Craft (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
• Ironheart by Eve L. Ewing
• The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom by David Walker
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Read now on OverDrive)
• March by John Lewis (Read now on OverDrive)
• Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Saladin Ahmed
• Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted by Damian Duffy
• Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
• Quincredible: Quest to Be the Best! by Rodney Barnes
• Shuri: The Search for Black Panther by Nnedi Okorafor
• Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
• Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Nonfiction

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism By bell hooks (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (Read now on OverDrive)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Read now on OverDrive)
• Finding Me by Viola Davis (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Hunger by Roxane Gay (Listen now on OverDrive)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman with April Reynolds
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – also on DVD (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates
• Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J Shields (Read now on OverDrive)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Read now on OverDrive)
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim (Read now on OverDrive)
• Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
• You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Poetry

• Citizen by Claudia Rankine (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel (Listen now to selected poems on OverDrive)
• The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus (Read now on OverDrive)