Just because Black History month is over doesn’t mean we stop enjoying black authored books. Here are just a few Black authored books we recommend to keep the momentum going, this month and beyond. Below are a handful of book recs by genre that a few of us here at Je-ReeReviews recommend checking out.
Let us know in the comments below some of your fav Black authored books. If you’re looking for Black Love, don’t forget to check out our Black Love Recs article as well.
*- Indicates a Banned Book
Biography/ Memoir:
Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Assata by Assata Shakur
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Fantasy:
Essence & Runes by Taylor Lynn
I Accidentally Summoned A Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage
Chosen Luna by Troinetta Nichole
The Unbroken by C.L Clark
A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow
Fiction:
Queenie by Candice Williams-Carty
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Beloved by Toni Morrison*
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler*
Native Son by Richard Wright
Horror:
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
This Cursed House by Del Sandeen
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
Mystery:
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson
The Conjure- Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher
The Black Queen by Jumata Emill
The Collective: From the Minds of Black Authors
They Can’t Take Your Name by Robert Justice
Non-Fiction:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander*
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds*
A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Remey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
Our History Has Always Been Contraband
Democracy in Black by Eddie S Glaude Jr
Play:
Tambourines of Glory by Langston Hughes
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Black Lives, Black Words by Reginald Edmund
Fences by August Wilson
Having Our Say by Amy Hill Hearth, Anne Elizabeth Delany & Sarah Louise Delany
Poetry:
Poems by Maya Angelou
(No) I am (Not) Okay by Dre Hill
For There is Always Light by Amanda Gorman
Forever My Joy: A Poem Under Moonlight by Star Jackson
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
SciFi:
Androne by Dwaine Worrell
Kindred by Octavia E Butler*
Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okarafor
Black Apocalypse by Tavia Nyong’o
The Outbreak by Samuel Morris Jr
YA:
Highly Suspicious & Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Hate That You Give by Angie Thomas*
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson*
Plan on reading any of these? Let us know in the comments and don't forget to join our monthly book club!
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