February 28, 2018

A reading list for February

Every day during the month of February, I shared a book recommendation on Twitter in recognition and celebration of Black History Month.

I’ve collected that full list below, for those of you that don’t want to go on Twitter to piece it all together.

Day 1: The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Day 2: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Day 3: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

Day 4: The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell

Day 5: We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

Day 6: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Day 7: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Day 8: Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Day 9: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Day 10: You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson

Day 11: Hunger by Roxane Gay

Day 12: Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Day 13: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Day 14: Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

Day 15: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Day 16: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Day 17: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Day 18: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Day 19: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Day 20: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Day 21: Brother, by David Chariandy

Day 22: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Day 23: March (all three parts of the trilogy) by John Lewis

Day 24: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Day 25: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Day 26: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

Day 27: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Day 28: Beloved by Toni Morrison