One way to elevate black voices is to read and recommend books by black authors. Check out the recommendations below and feel free to ask a librarian for more recommendations! This list is curated for adult readers by Katie Rickard and Eva Silverstone.

Short Stories | Fiction | Sci-Fi/FantasyEssays/Memoir/Non-fiction | Poetry

 

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Short Stories

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer  

Book | Audiobook

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah   

Book

Lot by Bryan Washington  

Book


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Fiction  

Beloved by Toni Morrison  

Book | eBook 

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin  

Book 

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi  

Book | eBook 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin  

Book | eBook 

Jazz by Toni Morrison  

Book

On Beauty by Zadie Smith  

Book

Open City by Teju Cole   

Book

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Book | eBook

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Book | eBook

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Book | eBook

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Book | eBook

The Mothers by Britt Bennett

Book | eBook

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Book | eBook

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Book | eBook


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Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Book | eBook | Audiobook

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Book | eBook

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

eBook

Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

eBook

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

Book

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Book | eBook

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Book | eBook


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Essays/Memoir/Non-fiction

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Book | eBook

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Book | eBook

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Audiobook

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Book

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Book | eBook

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

Book | eBook | Audiobook

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Book | eBook


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Poetry

Homie by Danez Smith

Audiobook

Voices: Poems by Lucille Clifton

Book

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker

Book

 


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