Collage of 2021’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Click for more detail about All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Click for more detail about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Click for more detail about Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Click for more detail about The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Click for more detail about The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Click for more detail about Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
Click for more detail about Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
Click for more detail about Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Click for more detail about Sho by Douglas Kearney
Click for more detail about The Between by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks
Click for more detail about We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
Click for more detail about The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Click for more detail about My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Click for more detail about Praise Song for the Widow by Paule Marshall
Click for more detail about Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about Palmares by Gayl Jones
Click for more detail about The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Click for more detail about May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Click for more detail about Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
Click for more detail about Black Bottom Saints (Paperback) by Alice Randall
Click for more detail about The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Click for more detail about Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
Click for more detail about Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Click for more detail about How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
Click for more detail about Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Click for more detail about Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
Click for more detail about Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Click for more detail about The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Click for more detail about The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Click for more detail about The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Click for more detail about How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Click for more detail about The Three Mothers (Hardcover) by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Click for more detail about In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Click for more detail about Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle
Click for more detail about Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Click for more detail about While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Click for more detail about Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
Click for more detail about The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel by David Bradley
Click for more detail about Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva