Reading List | Black History Month

Here is a reading list of books by Black authors available in the OSU-OKC library:

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Hunger by Roxane Gay
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Warmth of Other Sun by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Culture by Emma Dabiri
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

For more information visit the OSU-OKC Library.