Did You Know…Feburary is Black History Month?

Did You Know…

February is Black History Month?

It is!

And to celebrate here is a reading list with three parts: A selection of classic works by Hurston, Baldwin, Angelou and others, a selection of fiction titles by contemporary authors and a selection of biographies and memories by contemporary authors.

And in doing research for this posting I found so many great non-fiction books that to include them all in one posting would be inundating!

So I will do a second posting next week, titled Black History Month Non-Fiction Part 2: General Non-Fiction, to feature those books.

And onto the reading list!

A SELECTION OF CLASSIC WORKS:

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Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson contained in the collection Writings (Non-Fiction):

Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, by Deborah Gray White (Non-Fiction):

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr. (Non-Fiction):

The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois by W. E. B. Du Bois (Non-Fiction):

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Fiction):

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Non-Fiction):

Harriet A. Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Non-Fiction):

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Non-Fiction):

Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Fiction):

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Fiction):

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Fiction):

FICTION:

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely:

American Street by Ibi Zoboi:

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson:

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay:

Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez:

Finding Gideon by Eric Jerome Dickey:

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi:

The Illegal by Lawrence Hill:

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson:

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler:

Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray:

The Sellout by Paul Beatty:

So Much Blue by Percival Everett:

Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey:

X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon:

NON-FICTION PART 1: BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS:

Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King:

Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson:

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight:

He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty by Jonathan Bass: