February has gotten away from us, but we still want to post
a reading list for Black History Month.
Since it will not be possible to read all of these in what remains of
this month, we remind you that the contributions of Black people
(African-Americans and Blacks from all over the world) to science, culture,
history and math can be celebrated year-round, not just confined to a
celebration month.
We’ve had a Black Fiction brochure for several years now,
but we’ve stopped updating it because it has become impossible to fit all the
authors in a brochure format…and that’s just the fiction writers! With the conversion to our new catalog
system, we are working on a way to do author lists within the catalog. Currently we can only list by book title,
which is how our Black History Reading List is laid out.
Fiction is definitely included in our Black History Month
Reading List because stories can capture truth, but non-fiction and biography
are also important. We’ve put together
our reading list from several sources. We
started with several internet lists and added some titles of our own. These lists contain fiction and non-fiction,
scholarly and easy reads, and books for all ages. Some of the books on these lists didn’t make
ours because they are not in our collection; if you see something you’d like to
read or that you think we should have, let us know!
We hope you will find at least one book from our list that
makes its way to your list.
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HERE to check out our recommendations.
Some of the lists we consulted are linked below. Happy reading!
