This Black History Month, and every month, expand your reading list to include books written by Black authors that showcase Black love, Black success, Black joy and Black triumph. To help you curate your reading list this February, the team has rounded up their 28 favourite books to add to your reading list. Dive into these enacting stories centred around Black leads and from some of the best contemporary literary voices.

28 books to read this February written by Black authors

  1. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  2. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  3. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
  4. While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
  5. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
  6. The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole
  7. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
  8. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
  9. Society of Lies by  Lauren Ling Brown
  10. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
  11. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
  12. The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo
  13.  People Person By Candice Carty-Williams
  14. The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy
  15. Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr
  16. I’m So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson
  17. Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
  18. Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
  19. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  20. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström
  21. The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forst
  22. Holler Child, LaToya Watkins
  23. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
  24. The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
  25. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
  26. Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
  27. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  28. James by Percival Everett

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