Black History Month 2023 - Queens Public Library

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

Adult Nonfiction

Democracy in Black
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Black Ghost of Empire
by Kris Manjapra

African Founders
by David Hackett Fischer

Half American
by Matthew F. Delmont

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
by Kyle T. Mays

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson

American Sirens
by Kevin M. Hazzard

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
by National Museum of African American History and Culture

Well of Souls
by Kristina R. Gaddy

The Annotated African American Folktales
by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
by Virginia Hamilton

The Black Book
by Middleton A. Harris

Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
by Larry Eugene Rivers

The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts

Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames

Slavery in New York: The African American Experience
by Ira Berlin

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island
by Emily Meggett

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt
by Mark M. Smith

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
by Gerald Horne

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
by Eric Foner

CD AUDIOBOOK

We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
by David Chanoff & Louis W. Sullivan

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
by Jacqueline L. Tobin & Raymond G. Dobard

Fighting for America: Black Soldiers–the Unsung Heroes of World War II
by Christopher Paul Moore

Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II
by Maggie M. Morehouse

One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC
by Charity Adams Earley

The Harlem Hellfighters
by Max Brooks

Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
by Philip Dray

The Half Has Never Been Told
by Edward E. Baptist

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
by Kate Masur

Black Prophetic Fire
by Cornel West

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by James H. Cone

Black Fortunes
by Shomari Wills

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
by Spencer Crew

The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
by Kristen Green