12 Books By Black Authors

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76 participants (539 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read one book by a Black author a month for the whole year. It doesn’t matter the genre, author’s gender, release date, traditional published or indie. As long as the author is Black it counts! Use #12BooksByBlackAuthors if you post on social media. 

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The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice

The Bookshop Sisterhood

Michelle Lindo-Rice

359 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

fiction literary emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Charmed by Desiree M. Granger

Moon #3

Charmed

Desiree M. Granger

331 pages • 2020 • 2 editions

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley

6h 12m • 2010 • 17 editions

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon

Ways of Sunlight

Sam Selvon

208 pages • 1957 • 2 editions

fiction short stories informative reflective slow-paced
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

146 pages • 2021 • 48 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks

224 pages • 1994 • 18 editions

nonfiction education feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson

215 pages • 1933 • 43 editions

nonfiction education history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel

1h 35m • 2021 • 17 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams

Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams

14h 1m • 2023 • 23 editions

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration by Natalie Daise

Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration

Natalie Daise

23 pages • 2 editions

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fiction childrens medium-paced