Black History Month Reading Lists

Angelou, Maya

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Baldwin, James

Early Novels and Stories

Carroll, Rebecca

Sugar in the Raw : Voices of Young Black Girls in America

Clifton, Lucille

Two-Headed Woman: Homage to My Hips

Cose, Ellis

The Rage of a Privileged Class

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Bud, Not Buddy

Danticat, Edwidge

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Dryden, Charles W.

A-train : Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

Du Bois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk

Ellison, Ralph

Invisible man

Gaines, Ernest J.

A Lesson Before Dying

Gates, Henry Louis

The Future of the Race

Haley, Alex

Roots : The Saga of an American Family

Mathis, Deborah

Yet a stranger : Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home

McBride, James

The Color of Water

McMillan, Terry

Who Asked You?

Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Naylor, Gloria

Mama Day

Obama, Barack

The Audacity of Hope

Page, Clarence

Showing My Color : Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

Painter, Nell Irvin

Sojourner Truth : A Life, a Symbol

Reynolds, Jason

The Boy in the Black Suit

Shange, Ntozake

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can

West, Cornel

Restoring Hope : Conversations on the Future of Black America

Race Matters

Smitherman, Geneva

Black Talk : Words and Phrases From the Hood to the Amen Corner

Whitehead, Colson

The Nickel Boys : a Novel