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Black Resource Guide

Resource guide celebrating Black history and the cultural, political, and creative contributions of Black Americans.

Children's Books

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525553366
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534425361
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Crown: An ode to the fresh cut by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781572842243
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Skin Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry
ISBN: 9781734086560
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Imani's Moon by Janay Brown-Wood; Hazel Mitchell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781934133576
Publication Date: 2014-10-14
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399257742
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers; Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062667137
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Going down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781561459384
Publication Date: 2019-04-02

Novels

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780679601722
Publication Date: 1995-08-22
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780307271082
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
ISBN: 9781501196027
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Beloved by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781400033416
Publication Date: 2004-06-08
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
ISBN: 9780735220171
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
ISBN: 9781250170972
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780151191543
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
ISBN: 9780525536291
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 9780807083109
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9781419709470
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
Graphic novel
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
ISBN: 9780802127358
Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780385334570
Publication Date: 2000-06-13
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
ISBN: 9781594634659
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780679732761
Publication Date: 1995-03-14
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Black Panther: A nation under our feet. Book 1
ISBN: 1302493183
Publication Date: 2016-08-31
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Native Son by Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780061148507
Publication Date: 2008-04-29
Passing by Nella Larsen; Emily Bernard (Introduction by); Thadious M. Davis (Notes by)
ISBN: 9780142437278
Publication Date: 2003-02-04
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
ISBN: 9780062662804
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780525535270
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
The Street by Ann Petry; Tayari Jones (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780395901496
Publication Date: 1998-03-15
Available at Brooklyn Public Library
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780060838676
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
The Underground Railroad: A novel by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Incognegro: a Graphic Mystery by Mat Johnson; Warren Pleece (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781506705644
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Graphic novel
Available at Brooklyn Public Library

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