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Ok so every day on Instagram I've been posting book recommendations for my NB followers to learn more about Black authors and their stories. I thought I'd also post here in a thread too. Please leave any recommendations or suggestions for me in the comments!
This list is by no means exhaustive so add your favorites to this list! These are fiction or non-fiction (and sometimes, biomythographies
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson.
)Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
Learn more about the 13th amendment and how slavery still exists within the prison system.
Learn more about the 13th amendment and how slavery still exists within the prison system.
Wild Seed (Series) by Octavia Butler
You don't know science fiction/horror until you read this series.
You don't know science fiction/horror until you read this series.
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
I've Been Meaning to Tell You - A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy
A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
