We're observing African Heritage Month by sharing some of our library’s books written by authors of color. These books, most of them written for a young adult audience, go above and beyond when it comes to representation—and it’s something that the library community, authors, and readers continue to fight for every day. So, in honor of Black History Month, we want to take a look at some of the books that have been influential in this wave of representation and encourage you to read your way through the month!
All American Boys by
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
American Street by Ibi
Zoboi
Beasts Made of Night by
Tochi Onyebuchi
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen
Oyeyemi
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline
Woodson
Buried Beneath the
Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Children of Blood and
Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Copper Sun by Sharon
Draper
Crossing Ebenezer Creek
by Tonya Bolden
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Dread Nation by Justina
Ireland
Everything Everything by
NicolaYoon
Game by Walter Dean
Myers
Harbor Me by Jacqueline
Woodson
Harlem Summer by Walter
Dean Myers
Learning to Breathe by Janice
Lynn Mather
Little & Lion by
Brandy Colbert
Long Way Down by Jason
Reynolds
Monday’s Not Coming by
Tiffany D. Jackson
Monster by Walter Dean
Myers
The Belles by Dhonielle
Clayton
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence
Hill
The Crossover by Kwame
Alexander
The Hate You Give by
Angie Thomas
The Illegal by Lawrence
Hill
The Poet X by Elizabeth
Acevedo
The Sun Is Also A Star
by NicolaYoon
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz