One of my goals for 2018 was to read more of what I want.
This new year I've curated an eclectic mix of old and new, fiction and non-fiction. This list is by no means set in stone, but a starting point for the year. I hope to get to all of them, but I'm sure to read others that are not listed here as well (my reading list grows faster than I can keep up!). I'll be posting thoughts and reflections on my favorite reads throughout the year.
What's your favorite book related to Black culture? What's on your reading list for 2018? (Leave a comment below!)
Here's my reading list for 2018 (in no particular order):
Fiction:
American Street—Ibi Zoboi
Another Brooklyn—Jacqueline Woodson
Go Tell It On the Mountain—James Baldwin
Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
The Hate You Give—Angie Thomas
The Sellout—Paul Beatty
Sing, Unburied, Sing—Jesmyn Ward
Halsey Street—Naima Coster
Swing Time—Zadie Smith
The Color Purple—Alice Walker
Mudbound—Hillary Jordan
Non-Fiction:
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America—Ibram X Kendi
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.—Chancellor Williams
Negroland: A Memoir—Margo Jefferson
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation—Natalie Moore
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color—Andrea J. Ritchie
Last Black Unicorn—Tiffany Haddish
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy—Ta-Nehisi Coates
Buck: A Memoir—M.K. Asante
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America—Richard Rothstein
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X—Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir—Patrisse Khan-Cullors
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir—Jennifer Lewis
Poetry:
Electric Arches—Eve L. Ewing
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“Once you learn to read you will be forever free.”