Bookshelf
Here's just a small sampling of my favorite books.
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African American Curated Collection Starter Pack
This is the fancy curio cabinet you aren’t allowed to open (but open it - read these books!). This is the nice couch with the plastic.
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Bloodline by Ernest J Gaines
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Good Cry by Nikki Giovani
The Bluest Eye (the purple copy, honey!) by Toni Morrison
Fences by August Wilson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Jubliee by Margaret Walker
Parable of the Talents, Parable of the Sower, Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison
Melanatedreader’s Intentional Antiracist Book Starter Pack
Young Adult
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Tyrell by Coe Booth
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X Kendi & Jason Reynolds
Adults
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
Stateway's Garden by Jasmon Drain
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
No Ashes In the Fire by Darnell More
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Heavy by Kiese Jaymon
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Hardin
Melanatedreader’s Young Adult Favorites
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Tyrell by Coe Booth
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X Kendi & Jason Reynolds