The Year of Reading Challenge is celebrating Black History Month!
In February get a chance to win a gift card by reading a book by an African-American author or about African-American history. This is a list of recommendations if you need help selecting a title, but books do not need to come from this list. The recommendations were put together by NCPL staff and using the NoveList database, which you can use here.
To find out more about The Year of Reading Challenge, check out my blog about it here. Ready to dive in? Sign up in Beanstack here. It’s never too late to register!
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
On the Seventh Day by T. D. Jakes
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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