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