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New Books by Black Authors to Add to Your Summer Reading List

June 13, 2018

Who doesn't love a great summer read? So far, 2018 has been an awesome year for book releases by black authors.  Consider this list as a supplement to our 2018 Reading List posted earlier this year:

Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) By Anthony Ray Hinton

Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist  by Francesca Ramsey

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Creative Quest by Questlove

Whats on your reading list this summer? Leave a comment!

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Hi, I'm Leah. Welcome to You Are Black Gold, a blog celebrating Black history and culture from a millennial perspective!

Hi, I'm Leah. Welcome to You Are Black Gold, a blog celebrating Black history and culture from a millennial perspective!

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