Unspeakable The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper
Published 2021
32 pages
The most popular black experience books of 2021
These books tell the stories of Black people in Africa and across the diaspora. History, family, music, struggle and joy fill novels, memoirs, poetry and essays, written by some of the finest authors at work. There are classics, and the new voices shaping literature today. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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Wild Rain
Beverly Jenkins
Published 2021
355 pages
Three Girls from Bronzeville A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Dawn Turner
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Music is History
Questlove
Published 2021
351 pages
Change Sings
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long
Published 2021
32 pages
Run
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, Nate Powell
Published 2021
152 pages
She Memes Well Essays
Quinta Brunson
Published 2021
293 pages
The Cost of Knowing
Brittney Morris
Published 2021
336 pages
Ophie’s Ghosts
Justina Ireland
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
The Disordered Cosmos A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Published 2021
318 pages
Caul Baby
Morgan Jerkins
2021 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Milo Imagines the World
Matt de la Peña, Christian Robinson
2021 · 2022 edition
40 pages
Revival Season
Monica West
Published 2021
304 pages
Island Queen
Vanessa Riley
Published 2021
592 pages
Black Birds in the Sky
Brandy Colbert
Published 2021
222 pages
San Fransicko
Michael Shellenberger
Published 2021
416 pages
The Conductors (A Murder & Magic Novel)
Nicole Glover
Published 2021
432 pages
Root Magic
Eden Royce
2021 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Against White Feminism
Rafia Zakaria
Published 2021
195 pages
Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third
Published 2021
272 pages
Fast Pitch
Nic Stone
Published 2021
192 pages
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Nichole Perkins
Published 2021
256 pages
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright - undifferentiated
Published 2021
240 pages
Red Island House
Andrea Lee
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages