Here are my latest favorites — by no means an exhaustive list — just books that have been published recently or I’ve just read recently (and some older favorites) that include or are written by people of color. There are SO many great books out there and for most of the ones listed here you can look up the author to find a greater selection of their wonderful books. I also can’t help include African themes in African-American History Month.
Novels, Non-Fiction:
The Mighty Miss Malone, Christopher Paul Curtis
Bird in a Box, Andrea Davis Pinkney
Camo Girl, Kekla Magoon
The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon
Tyrell, Coe Booth
Flygirl, Sherri L. Smith
One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams Garcia
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose
Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
Zora and Me, Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
Mare’s War, Tanita S. Davis
The First Part Last, Angela Johnson
The Lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
Glory Be, Augusta Scattergood
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, Linda Sue Park
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan, John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Tyrone Geter
They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Picture Books:
We Are America, Walter Dean Myers
Of Thee I Sing, Barrack Obama
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song, Ashley Bryan
Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Martin’s Big Words, Doreen Rappaport
My People, Langston Hughes with Photographs by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson
One Million Men and Me, Kelly Starling Lyons
Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges, Ruby Bridges
Rosa, Nikki Giovanni
Back of the Bus, Aaron Reynolds
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman, Floyd Cooper
Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, Jeanette Winter
Odetta: The Queen of Folk, Stephen Alcorn
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, Katie Smith Milway
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, Laban Carrick Hill
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, Alan Schroeder
Underground, Shane W. Evans
