Black History Reading List: February 2024

February 5, 1901 by Rachael Workman

Black History Recommended Reading – Fiction and Non-Fiction

I have personally read and recommend all of these titles. If you purchase from any of my links, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Non-Fiction

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

Caste The Origins Of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Long Time Coming by Michael Eric Dyson

The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told To Alex Haley

The Audacity Of Hope by Barrack Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama
Read my review on Becoming from 2020

I’m Telling The Truth But I’m Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi

Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger: Essays by Damon Young

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Memoir) by Maya Angelou

Fiction

Good Women by Halle Hill (stories)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngoni Adiche

Passing by Nella Larson

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Memorial by Bryan Washington

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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