The Black Books They Don’t Want You to Read

Read Pen America’s report, “Banned in the USA” to learn about book banning nationwide.

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Book cover of The Bluest Eye
Book cover of Push
Book cover of The Hate U Give
Book cover of Beloved
Book cover of The Black Flamingo
Book cover of Allegedly
Book cover of The Poet X
Book cover of Watchmen
Book cover of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Book cover of Grown
Book cover of Homegoing
Book cover of All American Boys
Book cover of Juliet Takes a Breath
Book cover of Felix Ever After
Book cover of Ace of Spades
Book cover of Dear Martin
Book cover of Red at the Bone
Book cover of Half of a Yellow Sun
Book cover of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Book cover of A Good Kind of Trouble
Book cover of The Sacrifice of Darkness
Book cover of Little & Lion
Book cover of Ghost Boys
Book cover of Calvin
Book cover of Chosen
Book cover of Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
Book cover of Class Act
Book cover of Concrete Rose
Book cover of Sula
Book cover of Native Son
Book cover of New Kid
Book cover of How to Be an Antiracist
Book cover of Hurricane Child
Book cover of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Book cover of Dear Justyce
Book cover of The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Book cover of Light It Up
Book cover of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
Book cover of Between The World And Me
Book cover of Black Brother, Black Brother
Book cover of When I Was The Greatest
Book cover of Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Book cover of Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Book cover of Messenger
Book cover of 47
Book cover of Hands Up!
Book cover of Milo Imagines the World
Book cover of All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Book cover of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir
Book cover of Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
Book cover of Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches
Book cover of Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice
Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Book cover of Clap When You Land
Book cover of This Is Your Time
Book cover of The Only Black Girls in Town
Book cover of Born on the Water: The 1619 Project
Book cover of Monster
Book cover of Fallen Angels
Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (mass market)
Book cover of Monday’s Not Coming
Book cover of Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!
Book cover of American Street
Book cover of My Jim: A Novel
Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)
Book cover of Bronx Masquerade (Bound for Schools & Libraries)
Book cover of Native Son
Book cover of My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Book cover of Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Book cover of Sulwe
Book cover of A Sitting in St. James
Book cover of A Song Below Water
Book cover of Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Book cover of Tar Baby
Book cover of The Season of Styx Malone
Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Book cover of I Am Alfonso Jones
Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Book cover of All Because You Matter
Book cover of If You Come Softly
Book cover of Odd One Out
Book cover of Americanah
Book cover of Inheritance
Book cover of Instructions for Dancing
Book cover of Parable of the Sower
Book cover of Parable of the Talents
Book cover of Islandborn
Book cover of The Bridge
Book cover of Angel
Book cover of Angel of Greenwood
Book cover of Pet
Book cover of The Color Purple
Book cover of Antiracist Baby
Book cover of The Cost of Knowing
Book cover of The Creation
Book cover of Punching the Air
Book cover of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Book cover of King and the Dragonflies
Book cover of Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Book cover of Fences
Book cover of Firebug
Book cover of Forbidden
Book cover of The Fault in Our Stars
Book cover of The Fire Next Time
Book cover of From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Book cover of The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Book cover of Before I Let Go
Book cover of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Book cover of Before She was Harriet
Book cover of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Book cover of Long Way Down
Book cover of The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
Book cover of Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
Book cover of Love
Book cover of Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Book cover of Love to Langston
Book cover of Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
Book cover of Black Is a Rainbow Color
Book cover of Blended
Book cover of We March
Book cover of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Book cover of Girls from Da Hood
Book cover of The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Book cover of Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope
Book cover of Skeleton Key
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