Black History Month Booklist
February is Black History Month! We've compiled a booklist for all ages to help celebrate the importance of black history and of the contributions of African Americans to our history and culture.
Click on a title to find it in our catalog; and find many more titles at cobbcat.org.
Children's Picture Books
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
Baby Blessings by Deloris Jordan
Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Amanda Redd
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Daddy Speaks Love by Leah Henderson
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
Happy to be Nappy by bell hooks
I Am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown
Mama’s Home by Shay Youngblood
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
We Are Here by Tami Charles
Who Will You Be? by Andrea Pippins
Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne
The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson
Children's Nonfiction
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikk Grimes
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children by Davida Adedjouma
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Garcia-Williams
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
Fibbed by Elizabeth Agyemang
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Holler of the Fireflies by David Barclay Moore
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds
New Kid by Jerry Craft
One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Books for Teens and Young Adults
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
March by John Lewis
Okoye to the People by Ibi Zoboi
One True Loves by Elise Bryant
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L. Browne
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Adult Fiction
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Anywhere You Run by Wanda Morris
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride
Yonder by Jabari Asim
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Adult Nonfiction
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Buses are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
The Hill We Climb and Other Poems by Amanda Gorman
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, & Truth edited by Wade and Virginia Hudson
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin