Black Lives Matter at School Week – Feb 3-7, 2020
Books available in the library!
Nonfiction:
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Buck by MK Asante
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie by Count Basie
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Power 50 edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodard
Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
Vernon Can Read! by Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Blues All Around Me by B.B. King
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (edited by Clayton Carson)
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The Black Panthers: Portraits from An Unfinished Revolution edited by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
Fiction:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Aluta by Adwoa Badoe
Another Country by James Baldwin
Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak? by Edwidge Danticat (short stories)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth 1) by N.K. Jemisin
Fiction (continued):
The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth 2) by N.K. Jemisin
Amiable with Big Teeth by Claude McKay
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Kabu-Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor (short stories)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Poetry Collections:
I Shall Not be Moved by Maya Angelou
In the Mecca by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ego-Tripping by Nikki Giovanni
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (ed.)
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
Graphic Novels / Comics:
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book One by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze
March 1-3 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell
Picture Books:
Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers
Jazz by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers
Drama:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Fences by August Wilson