Black History Month reading suggestions

 

To celebrate Black History Month, we have selected our choice of recommended titles. Follow the link to request an title to collect from your local library. You will need your library card and PIN. Forgotten your PIN?
 

Adult Fiction

Five Days in Florence by Lorraine Brown

Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Public Enemy by Tim Grierson

Harlem After Midnight by Louise Hare

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
 

Adult Non-Fiction

Just Sayin’: My Life in Words by Malorie Blackman

Maybe I Don’t Belong Here by David Harewood

Black British Lives Matter by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

How (Not) To Be Strong by Alex Scott

100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osbourne

Black History Walks by Tony Warner
 

Children’s Fiction

Hey You! by Dapo Adeola

Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston

Look Up! by Nathan Bryon

The Door of No Return by Alexander Kwame

The Case of the Chaos Monster by Patrice Lawrence

Portraits and Poison by J. T. Williams

Harbour Me by Jacqueline Woodson

Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
 

Children’s Non-fiction

Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke

Musical Truth by Jeffrey Boakye

Black Joy by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Timi Sotire

Everyday Action, Everyday Change, by Natalie Evans

Black In Time by Alison Hammond

Rosa Parks by Izzi Howell

The Extraordinary Life of Serena Williams by Shelina Janmohamed

Black and British by David Olusoga

You Can Do It by Marcus Rashford

Black History Matters by Robin Walker

Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson