Collage of 2022’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Click for more detail about The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Click for more detail about His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Click for more detail about Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Click for more detail about The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
Click for more detail about Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Click for more detail about The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
Click for more detail about When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Click for more detail about Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
Click for more detail about Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves
Click for more detail about Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Click for more detail about Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Click for more detail about Concentrate: Poems by Courtney Faye Taylor
Click for more detail about South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
Click for more detail about Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile
Click for more detail about Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Click for more detail about midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers by Ianna A. Small
Click for more detail about The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Click for more detail about To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis
Click for more detail about On My Papa’s Shoulders by Niki Daly
Click for more detail about The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
Click for more detail about Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Click for more detail about Akie & Ebuka Got into Trouble by Uzoma R. Ezekwudo
Click for more detail about You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
Click for more detail about Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma by Guilaine Kinouani
Click for more detail about Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Click for more detail about Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Michael K. Williams
Click for more detail about How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta
Click for more detail about Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior
Click for more detail about Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Click for more detail about Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Click for more detail about Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
Click for more detail about The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Click for more detail about Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend
Click for more detail about Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman
Click for more detail about By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham
Click for more detail about Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson