Reading for Change: Books by Black Authors
All of these titles can be found via the JPL catalog
Picture Books
Concepts ABC Rose
That is my dream! : A picture book of Langston Hughes’s “Dream variation”
People Diversity Hughes
What’s the Difference?: Being Different is Amazing
People Diversity Richards
People Mom Mora
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Self Self Esteem Barnes
Self Self Esteem Brantley-Newton
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
Self Self Esteem Doyon
Self Self Esteem Byers
Self Self Esteem Nyong’o
Self Self Esteem Perkins
Self Self Esteem Robinson
Stories Food Charles
Stories History Alexander
Stories History Clark-Robinson
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
Stories History Hubbard
Stories History Ransome
Easy Fiction and Easy Nonfiction
Easy Fic Grimes Nikki
Easy Fic Lyons Kelly Starling
The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane
Easy Fic Smith Nikki Shannon
Easy Nonfic 305.8 L56L c. 1
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Easy Nonfic 323.11 Sh4c
Easy Nonfic 788.9 An2t
Easy Nonfic 796.332 Ea5r
Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction
J Fiction Alexander Kwame
J Fiction Draper Sharon
J Fiction Johnson Varian
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
J Fiction Mbalia Kwame
J Fiction Rhodes Jewell Parker
J Fiction Shabazz Ilyasah
Piecing Me Together & Ways to Make Sunshine
J Fiction Watson Renee
J Fiction Williams Alicia
J Fiction Woodson Jacqueline
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
J Fiction Zoboi Ibi
J Nonfic 741.5 C84n
We are the Ship: the story of Negro League Baseball
J Nonfic 796.357 N33w
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
J Nonfic 808.1 AL2o
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
J Nonfic 817 H11w
The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives
J Nonfic 973.0496 G82w
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
J Nonfic 973.0496 H24L
Teen Fiction
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Teen Coles Jay
Let Me Hear A Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
Teen Jackson Tiffany
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Teen Magoon Kekla
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Teen Reynolds Jason
Teen Stone Nic
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Teen Thomas Angie
If You Come Softly and Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
Teen Woodson Jacqueline
Teen Non-Fiction
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Teen 305.8 K33s 2020
Fiction
Fiction Bennett Brit
Fiction Coates Ta-Nehisi
Fiction Yaa Gyasi
The Broken Earth series
Fiction Jemisin N.K.
Fiction Reid Kiley
Fiction Taylor Brandon
Fiction Ward Jesmyn
Fiction Whitehead Colin
Fiction Woodson Jacqueline
Non-Fiction
305.42 G25 2014
305.8 K34h 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
305.8 K34s 2016
305.896 L45h 2018
811 J71h 2019
921 B79y 2019