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Important Black Books Coming Out in 2023

Book cover image of Country Place: A Novel by Ann Petry
Book cover image of We Are Here by Tami Charles
Book cover image of Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ Guide to Excellence by William R. Harvey
Book cover image of The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Book cover image of Mermaid and Pirate by Tracey Baptiste
Book cover image of Black Women’s Wellness: Your I’ve Got This! Guide to Health, Sex, and Phenomenal Living by Melody T. McCloud
Book cover image of The Playbook by Kwame Alexander
Book cover image of The (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
Book cover image of The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
Book cover image of Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Book cover image of The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts by Tiya Miles
Book cover image of Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage
Book cover image of The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Book cover image of Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford
Book cover image of Burning Season by Kiki Swinson
Book cover image of Chrome Valley: Poems by Mahogany L. Browne
Book cover image of The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden
Book cover image of School Trip by Jerry Craft
Book cover image of Rosewater by LIV Little
Book cover image of My Red, White, and Blue by Alana Tyson
Book cover image of Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate by Thomas Aiello
Book cover image of Greenland (paperback) by David Santos Donaldson
Book cover image of The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Book cover image of Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson by Angela Joy
Book cover image of The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations by Kevin Powell
Book cover image of Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown
Book cover image of School Trip (Paperback) by Jerry Craft
Book cover image of Above Ground by Clint Smith
Book cover image of Last Seen in Lapaz by Kwei Quartey
Book cover image of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Book cover image of Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
Book cover image of Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D by Chuck D
Book cover image of Harlem at Four by Michael Datcher
Book cover image of Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
Book cover image of Angela Davis (paperback): An Autobiography by Angela Davis
Book cover image of Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
Book cover image of Outriders Africa: Essays on Exploration and Return by Layla Mohamed and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Book cover image of A Boy and His Mirror by Marchánt Davis
Book cover image of Miss Muriel And Other Stories by Ann Petry
Book cover image of Skeleton and Secrets: Black Camelot’s #5 by Darius Myers
Book cover image of Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider by Stacy Spikes
Book cover image of Sugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5 by Whoopi Goldberg
Book cover image of Pregnant While Black: Reshaping the Story of an American Tragedy by Monique Rainford
Book cover image of You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Book cover image of Quietly Hostile: Essays by samantha irby
Book cover image of A Song for Juneteenth by Zetta Elliott
Book cover image of Love, Honor, Betray by Mary Monroe
Book cover image of Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
Book cover image of In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Book cover image of She Persisted: Simone Biles by Kekla Magoon
Book cover image of The Love You Save: A Memoir (Original) by Goldie Taylor
Book cover image of A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor
Book cover image of Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes
Book cover image of I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir by Debra Lee
Book cover image of You Never Know: A Novel of Domestic Suspense by Connie Briscoe
Book cover image of Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made (2023) by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Book cover image of A Fire in the Hills by Afaa Michael Weaver
Book cover image of Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
Book cover image of The Smallest Spot of a Dot: The Little Ways We’re Different, the Big Ways We’re the Same by Linsey Davis
Book cover image of Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Book cover image of So to Speak by Terrance Hayes
Book cover image of Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Book cover image of Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Book cover image of That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown
Book cover image of Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head by Alex Wheatle
Book cover image of What Does Brown Mean To You? by Ron Grady
Book cover image of Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
Book cover image of Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden
Book cover image of Around the Way Girls 12 by Treasure Hernandez and La Jill Hunt
Book cover image of Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney
Book cover image of I Am Big by Itah Sadu
Book cover image of The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda Armand
Book cover image of Empty Vows by Mary Monroe
Book cover image of Hair Love ABCs by Matthew A. Cherry
Book cover image of Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable by Zain Asher
Book cover image of Beats and Blow by Shaun Sinclair
Book cover image of Little Daymond Learns to Earn by Daymond John
Book cover image of What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter
Book cover image of Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker
Book cover image of The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
Book cover image of How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander
Book cover image of The Time of Your Life by Sandra Kitt
Book cover image of After the Lights Go Down: A Workplace Reunion Romance (Original) by Donna Hill
Book cover image of The Narrows by Ann Petry
Book cover image of I Love My People by Kim Singleton
Book cover image of Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe
Book cover image of Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
Book cover image of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Book cover image of Jamel Shabazz: Albums by Jamel Shabazz
Book cover image of Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You by Michael Walrond
Book cover image of Summer on Sag Harbor by Sunny Hostin
Book cover image of Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman
Book cover image of Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten
Book cover image of Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Book cover image of Track Star #4 by Kelly Starling Lyons
Book cover image of Better Than I Know Myself (2023) by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Book cover image of Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford
Book cover image of Wade in the Water by Nyaneba Nkrumah
Book cover image of Wash Day by Tiffany Golden
Book cover image of A Recipe for More by Sara Elise
Book cover image of Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
Book cover image of Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today by Eboni K. Williams
Book cover image of Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth by Clyde W. Ford
Book cover image of Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing
Book cover image of Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand
Book cover image of My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson
Book cover image of Daughter in Exile by Bisi Adjapon
Book cover image of The Talk by Darrin Bell
Book cover image of Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions by Heather McTeer Toney
Book cover image of Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Book cover image of Figure It Out, Henri Weldon by Tanita S. Davis
Book cover image of And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode
Book cover image of Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus
Book cover image of Nineveh: A Conflict Over Water by papi kymone freeman
Book cover image of Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Book cover image of Love Me as I Am (paperback) by Garcelle Beauvais
Book cover image of Right by My Side by David Haynes
Book cover image of Once in a Blue Moon by Sharon G. Flake
Book cover image of Fat Time and Other Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
Book cover image of Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out by Kelly Starling Lyons
Book cover image of Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee
Book cover image of Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure by Shauntay Grant
Book cover image of Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Book cover image of Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being: Second Edition by M. Shawn Copeland
Book cover image of Transitional: How to Live Your Authentic Life by Munroe Bergdorf
Book cover image of Put Your Shoes On & Get Ready! by Raphael G. Warnock
Book cover image of Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Book cover image of What Never Happened: A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
Book cover image of An Earth Song (Petite Poems) by Langston Hughes
Book cover image of Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church by Lenny Duncan
Book cover image of Jackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist by Liz Montague
Book cover image of Looking for Happy by Ty Chapman
Book cover image of Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph by Bill Bellamy
Book cover image of Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
Book cover image of Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter by Therese Taylor-Stinson
Book cover image of Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Brahm Revel
Book cover image of Cape by Kevin Johnson
Book cover image of You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Boston Weatherford
Book cover image of Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
Book cover image of The Enchanted Bridge by Zetta Elliott
Book cover image of Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century by Jasmine Brown
Book cover image of The DOS and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
Book cover image of Far from the Tree by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Book cover image of Madam X by Niobia Bryant
Book cover image of Things Past Telling (paperback) by Sheila Williams
Book cover image of Prayer with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional by Myles Munroe
Book cover image of Black and Female: Essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Book cover image of Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
Book cover image of Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
Book cover image of The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings 2) by Claribel A. Ortega
Book cover image of I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History by Emmanuel Iduma
Book cover image of Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments by Gayl Jones
Book cover image of Juneteenth by Van G. Garrett
Book cover image of Salat in Secret by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Book cover image of Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance by William L. Katz
Book cover image of She Persisted: Dorothy Height by Kelly Starling Lyons
Book cover image of I’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett by Tiania Haneline and Scarlett Gray Smith
Book cover image of Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
Book cover image of The Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2) by Dhonielle Clayton
Book cover image of Hey Otter! Hey Beaver! by Brian Pinkney
Book cover image of The Last Suspicious Holdout (paperback): Stories by Ladee Hubbard
Book cover image of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Book cover image of Africana: A Cookbook of Recipes and Flavors Inspired by a Rich Continent by Lerato Umah-Shaylor
Book cover image of The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Book cover image of Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law by Bruce Jackson
Book cover image of Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era (Hardback) by Nigel I. Malcolm
Book cover image of A Family Prayer by Shay Youngblood
Book cover image of The Mermaid Princesses: A Sister Tale by Maya Cameron-Gordon
Book cover image of Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
Book cover image of You So Black by Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.
Book cover image of The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Book cover image of Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett
Book cover image of Dreamer by Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson Elysée
Book cover image of Summertime & the Livin’ is Easy by Edwina Louise Dorch
Book cover image of How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Book cover image of Jump In! by Shadra Strickland
Book cover image of You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce by Carmella Van Vleet and Chiquita Mullins Lee
Book cover image of The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Book cover image of Where I’m Coming from by Barbara Brandon
Book cover image of To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton
Book cover image of Pieces of a Man by Jamel Shabazz
Book cover image of My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
Book cover image of The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
Book cover image of The Overnights: An Ashe Cayne Mystery by Ian K. Smith
Book cover image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire by Loida Lewis and Blair S. Walker
Book cover image of Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Book cover image of Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
Book cover image of My Baba’s Garden by Jordan Scott
Book cover image of Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome
Book cover image of Pride by Victoria Christopher Murray
Book cover image of Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Book cover image of The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
Book cover image of Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes by Stephen A. Smith
Book cover image of A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney
Book cover image of A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 2 (1919-1945): A History of the African American Athlete by Arthur Ashe
Book cover image of Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines
Book cover image of The Wisdom and Legacy of Myles Munroe: The Kingdom of God: The Definitive Teaching on Rediscovering, Understanding, and Applying Kingdom Principles by Myles Munroe
Book cover image of Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley
Book cover image of If You Call My Name: The Collected Memoirs of Black Enslaved People by Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano
Book cover image of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
Book cover image of I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
Book cover image of Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins
Book cover image of Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! by Janice N. Harrington
Book cover image of The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon
Book cover image of Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
Book cover image of A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918): A History of the African American Athlete by Arthur Ashe
Book cover image of Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Book cover image of In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America by Brianna Holt
Book cover image of Don’t Cry for Me (paperback) by Daniel Black
Book cover image of River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Book cover image of In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People by atalie Renee Perkins and Hal Taussig
Book cover image of Double The Lies: An Annalee Spain Mystery (Book 2) by Patricia Raybon
Book cover image of A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
Book cover image of In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
Book cover image of Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
Book cover image of The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Book cover image of The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens by Scubie Albie
Book cover image of Come Home Safe by Brian Buckmire
Book cover image of Even If the Sky Is Falling by Taj McCoy
Book cover image of Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
Book cover image of The Foreign Exchange by Veronica G. Henry
Book cover image of You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
Book cover image of Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
Book cover image of The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Book cover image of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy
Book cover image of What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman by Lerita Coleman Brown
Book cover image of Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Book cover image of An American Story by Kwame Alexander
Book cover image of Wifey’s Next Come Up by Kiki Swinson
Book cover image of A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
Book cover image of The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Book cover image of Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans
Book cover image of No Sweet Without Brine: Poems by Cynthia Manick
Book cover image of History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey Baptiste
Book cover image of Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century by Janet Cheatham Bell
Book cover image of Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson
Book cover image of A Bitter Pill to Swallow - Bookstore edition by Tiffany Gholar
Book cover image of Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates by Maria Fee
Book cover image of Little Troublemaker Makes a Mess by Luvvie Ajayi
Book cover image of The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
Book cover image of The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback) by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Book cover image of BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art by Zaria Ware
Book cover image of We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
Book cover image of Baby, Sleepy Baby (board book) by Atinuke
Book cover image of All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration by Glenda Armand
Book cover image of Laws of Wrath by Eriq La Salle
Book cover image of In My Grandmother’s House (paperback): Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit by Yolanda Pierce
Book cover image of How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
Book cover image of Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye Duncan
Book cover image of Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
Book cover image of Zora Books Her Happy Ever After: A Rom-Com Novel (Original) by Taj McCoy
Book cover image of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Revised) by Ibram X. Kendi
Book cover image of Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Reneé
Book cover image of White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance by Guilaine Kinouani
Book cover image of Chameleon: A Black Box Thriller by Remi Adeleke
Book cover image of On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Book cover image of The Last One by Rachel Howzell Hall
Book cover image of Ketanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court by Kekla Magoon
Book cover image of Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Book cover image of Nobody’s Magic (Paperback) by Destiny O. Birdsong
Book cover image of It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson
Book cover image of A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
Book cover image of Not an Easy Win by Chrystal D. Giles
Book cover image of Flipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean by Linda Ravin Lodding and Dipesh Pabari


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