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Booklist

Adult Fiction

All we were promised : a novel
by Ashton Lattimore

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The Underground Railroad
by Coulson Whitehead

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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler

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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan

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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

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Ella: A Novel
by Diane Richards

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The Prophets
by Robert Jones Jr.

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The complete fiction : Passing, Quicksand, and the stories
by Nella Larsen

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The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride

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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis

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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans

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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

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Adult Nonfiction

The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson

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Illustrated Black History
by George McCalman

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Love & whiskey : the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green, and the improbable rise of Uncle Nearest
by Fawn Weaver

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The 1619 Project : a new origin story
by Nikole, editor Hannah-Jones

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The Black utopians : searching for paradise and the Promised Land in America
by Aaron Robertson

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BLK MKT vintage : reclaiming objects and curiosities that tell black stories
by Stewart Kiyanna, Jannah Handy

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When Broadway Was Black
by Caseen Gaines

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The image of the Black in western art
by David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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

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Rooted : the American legacy of land theft and the modern movement for Black land ownership
by Brea Baker

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In slavery’s wake : making Black freedom in the world
by Paul Gardullo

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The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America
by Larry Tye

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The secret lives of numbers : an hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers
by Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell

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Young Adults

Black Internet Effect
by Shavone Charles, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illust.)

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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by Brandy Colbert

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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
by Monica Edinger, Lesley Younge

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The Spirit of Freedom: Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement
by Marty Gitlin

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A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
by Hakeem M. Oluseyi

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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Canged America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney (Illust.)

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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
by Angela Shante

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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Jundge to Barack Obama
by Ray Anthony Shepard, R. Gregory Christie (Illust.)

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Children

Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
by Gene Barretta, Frank Morrison (Illust.)

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Black Trailblazers: 30 Courageous Visionaries Who Broke Boundaries, Made a Difference, and Paved the Way
by Bijan Bayne, Joelle Avelino (Illust.)

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Who Was Booker T. Washington
by James Buckley, Jake Murray (Illust.)

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Mary McLeod Bethune
by Amy Robin Jones

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Madam C.J. Walker: The Beauty Boss
by Janel Rodriguez, Subi Bosa (Illust.)

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Jerry Changed the Game: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
by Don Tate, Cherise Harris (Illust.)

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She Persisted: Oprah Winfrey
by Renee Watson, Gillian Flint (Illust.)

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A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
by Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, Byron McCray (Illust.)

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