Black History Month 2024 - Queens Public Library

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Booklist

Booklist

Adult Fiction Adult Nonfiction Young Adults Children

Adult Fiction

Don't Cry For Me
by Daniel Black

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis

Passing
by Nella Larsen

The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride

The Scent of Burnt Flowers
by Blitz Bazawule

The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead

Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan

The Prophets
by Robert Jones, Jr.

Yonder
by Jabari Asim

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans

Wild Women and the Blues
by Denny S. Bryce

Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue

Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi

The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
by Dawnie Walton

Viper's Dream
by Jake Lamar

Monster in the Middle
by Tiphanie Yanique

Adult Nonfiction

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Illustrated Black History
by George McCalman

Say It Loud!
by Randall Kennedy

Lest We Forget
by Velma Maia Thomas

The Devil You Know
by Charles M. Blow

Sweet Home Café Cookbook: A Celebration of African American Cooking
by Albert G. Lukas and Jessica B. Harris

Well of Souls
by Kristina R. Gaddy

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
by Wil Haygood

Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
by Caseen Gaines

Black Art: a Cultural History
by Richard J. Powell

A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
by David Krasner

When Broadway Was Black
by Caseen Gaines

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
by Kevin Young (Editor)

From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore
by Daryl Cumber Dance

Icons of Black Music
by Charlotte Greig

Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
by Richard J. Powell

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty
by Connie Briscoe & Milton Washington

The Duke Ellington Reader
by Mark Tucker (Editor)

Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
by Michael Cunningham & Craig Marberry

The New Black West: Photographs from America's Only Touring Black Rodeo
by Gabriela Hasbun

Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
by Thomas F. DeFrantz

With a Crooked Stick―The Films of Oscar Micheaux
by J. Ronald Green

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
by Damien Lewis

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez (Illust.)

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