At the end of last year, Hope Wabuke posted a Year in Review of the best books by Black authors on
The Root. As we come up on Black History Month, it seemed only right to highlight some of those books and let you know which are in the COD Library's collection.
This list includes stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction. You'll find many in print on the New Book shelves, but others are also available as e-books and audiobooks via
Overdrive. And for those we don't yet have, you can use
I-Share to request the title from one of our neighboring Illinois academic libraries.
- An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
- Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
- Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
- A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley
- Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
- The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
- Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith
- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- Heavy, Kiese Laymon
- Barracoon: The Last Black Cargo, Zora Neale Hurston
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Feel Free, Zadie Smith
- Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture, edited Roxane Gay
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, edited by Glory Edim
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, Morgan Jerkins