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Read Woke @ Goodnow

Adults’ Book Recommendations:

African American Voices


 

Fiction

An American Marriage

  • Tayari Jones

Blacktop Wasteland

  • S. A. Cosby

The Good Lord Bird

  • James McBride

Juneteenth

  • Ralph Waldo Ellison

The Mothers

  • Brit Bennett

Riot Baby

  • Tochi Onyebuchi

The Sellout

  • Paul Beatty

 

Nonfiction

Between the World and Me

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  • Richard Rothstein

The Fire Next Time

  • James A. Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

  • Jesmyn Ward

Heavy: An American Memoir

  • Kiese Laymon

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • Rebecca Skloot

Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

  • Catherine Kerrison

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

  • Bryan Stevenson

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

  • Issa Rae

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

  • Erica Armstrong Dunbar

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

  • Darnell L. Moore

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

  • Isabel Wilkerson

The Yellow House

  • Sarah M. Broom

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