Black Books


Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Seven Days in June
The Vanishing Half
The Hate U Give
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Kindred
Honey & Spice
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
The Color Purple
The Bluest Eye
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
The Souls of Black Folk
Between the World and Me
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
On the Come Up by Angie ThomasWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoBlack Enough by Ibi ZoboiI Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina ForestWatch Us Rise by Renée  Watson
Black Heroines 2019
68 books — 27 voters
Charming as a Verb by Ben PhilippeThe Voting Booth by Brandy ColbertA Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. GrandisonNow That I've Found You by Kristina ForestNot So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
2020 Black YA Contemporary Romances
7 books — 13 voters

Motown by Adam WhiteThe Supremes by Mark RibowskyBlue Monday by Rick ColemanMichael Jackson by Chris       RobertsBeyoncé in Formation by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Black Music Artists
12 books — 1 voter
Magic Dark, Magic Divine by A.J. LockeRequiem of Silence by L. PenelopeDead Dead Girls by Nekesa AfiaWhere the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah DassThe Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon  Richardson
Black Heroines 2021
36 books — 3 voters

People swear they know the whole me. They tend to assume I’ve never been through anything cold since I exude a warm innocence.
Zara Hairston, It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

Dylan Moran
Fran Katzenjammer: "You need someone normal around here". Bernard: "Normal! He's normal is he, is he"? Fran Katzenjammer: [chuckles] Bernard: "What am I then"? Fran Katzenjammer: "Well you're a freak, Bernard, you know that". Bernard: [pauses then blurts] "Yes. I know. But I have rights"! ...more
Dylan Moran

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