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Black History Month

A list of books celebrating Black voices, recommended by the Booksellers at Powell's Books.

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

What Napoleon Could Not Do by DK Nnuro

Assembly by Natasha Brown

This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley

Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

Of Blood and Sweat by Clyde W. Ford

Black Ghost of Empire by Kris Manjapra

Inciting Joy by Ross Gay

Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

The Rage of Innocence by Kristin Henning

An Autobiography of Skin by Lakiesha Carr

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevieve West

South to America by Imani Perry

Speaking of Race by Celeste Headlee

A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks

Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams

Fast Pitch by Nic Stone

The 1619 Project by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Nina by Traci N. Todd

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