In honor of Black History Month, we recently shared Kids and YA books by Black authors. This time, we’re sharing books for adults by Black authors–fiction, non-fiction, biography, and memoir. These books were suggested by NOPL librarians and staff members and are available to borrow or place on hold. Some titles are also available as e-books or audiobooks:
Fiction:
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dawn by Octavia Butler – Xenogenesis Trilogy #1
Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler – Xenogenesis Trilogy #2
Imago by Octavia Butler – Xenogenesis Trilogy #3
Parable of a Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
People of Means by Nancy Johnson
The Filling Station by Vanessa Miller
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver novel #3 by Walter Mosley
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Faebound: a novel by El-Arifi Saara – Faebound Trilogy #1
Cursebound by ElArifi Saara–Faebound Triology #2
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Non-Fiction
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston, forward by Alice Walker, edited by Deborah G. Plant
Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine by Uche Blacksock
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services–Notes of a Former Caseworker by Jessica Pryce
Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime & Politics for a Better America, by Sheriff David Clarke Jr., with Nancy French
Autobiographies, Memoirs, & Biographies
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland (memoir)
Lovely One: a memoir by Katanji Brown Jackson
Notes from a Young Black Chef: a memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (memoir/history)
Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (memoir)
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (biography)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (memoir)
