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
Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Amanda Redd
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Daddy Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson
Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird by Misty Copeland
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
Happy to be Nappy by bell hooks
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Mixed Me by Taye Diggs
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
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
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
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
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
New Kid by Jerry Craft
One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Books for Teens and Young Adults
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
March by John Lewis
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Adult Fiction
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Adult Nonfiction
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Yellow House by Sarah Broom