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Read Black ... History

In February, the Read Black Book Club meets for the first round-robin style Book Chat of 2025. What better time than now to read something centering Black history, in any category you choose! Here are some recommendations of history books, biographies, literary fiction, fantastical fiction, romance novels, graphic novels, and everything in between to try, then join Read Black to tell us about it on February 22.

Pima County Public Library

34 items

  • BookNew York : Knopf, 2008. — Fiction Morrison
  • Downloadable AudiobookMacmillan Audio, 2024
  • BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024] — Fiction Dennings TEEN
  • Sisters in Arms

    a Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II

    Alderson, Kaia
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — Fiction Alderson
  • May We Forever Stand

    a History of the Black National Anthem

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    BookChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] — 782.25089 P4295m 2018
  • Graphic NovelNew York : Broadway Books, [2014] — Fiction Brooks
  • BookNew York : AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 782.42164 Q389h 2024
  • The 1619 Project

    a New Origin Story

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — 973 On21 2021
  • BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2023] — Fiction Sanders
  • Begin Again

    James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

    Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
    BookNew York : Crown, [2020] — 305.80097 G467b 2020
  • BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — Fiction Riley
  • Almost There

    a Twisted Tale Novel

    Rochon, Farrah
    BookLos Angeles ; New York : Disney/Hyperion, 2022. — Fiction Rochon TEEN
  • Half American

    the Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    Delmont, Matthew F.
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — 940.5403 D382h 2022