Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter Reading List
Fiction & nonfiction books written by Black authors about Black teens & Black history
FICTION
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo – Y Fic ACE / Overdrive ebook / Hoopla ebook & audiobook
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi – Y Fic BLA / Overdrive ebook
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles – Y Fic COL
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis / Overdrive ebook / Hoopla ebook & audiobook
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany Jackson – Y Fic JAC / Overdrive ebook / Hoopla ebook & audiobook
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson – Y Fic JAC / Overdrive ebook / Hoopla ebook & audiobook
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal / Overdrive ebook & audiobook / Hoopla ebook
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon – Y Fic MAG
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon – Y Fic MAG / Overdrive ebook
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina – Y 741.5 MED
SLAY by Brittney Morris – Y Fic MOR / Overdrive ebook
Monster by Walter Dean Myers – Y Fic MYE / Overdrive ebook & audiobook / Hoopla ebook
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older – Y Fic OLD / Hoopla audiobook
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro – Y Fic OSH / Overdrive audiobook / Hoopla audiobook
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell / Hoopla audiobook
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely – Y Fic REY / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds – Y Fic REY / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay – Y Fic RIB / Overdrive ebook
Dear Martin by Nic Stone – Y Fic STO / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
Jackpot by Nic Stone – Y Fic STO / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – Y Fic THO / Overdrive ebook & audiobook / Hoopla ebook & audiobook
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas – Y Fic THO / Overdrive ebook & audiobook / Hoopla audiobook
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson – Y Fic WAT / Overdrive ebook
NONFICTION
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson / Hoopla audiobook
Between the World & Me by Ta-nehisi Coates – Y 305.896 COA / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi – 305.896 KEN / Overdrive ebook & audiobook
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson – Y 353.48 STE (YA adaptation) & 353.48 STE (original) / Overdrive ebook (YA adaptation), ebook (original), & audiobook
March series by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin – Y 741.5 LEW / Overdrive ebook / Hoopla ebook
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin – Y 305.896 FUL
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo – 305.8 OLU / Overdrive ebook & audiobook / Hoopla audiobook
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi / Overdrive ebook
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett / Hoopla ebook
This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell / Overdrive ebook
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, with Tonya Bolden – Y 305.896 AND
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele – Y 305.896 KHA / Hoopla audiobook
