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Black History Month Books
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.47 — 898,831 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.15 — 754,809 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.27 — 686,281 ratings — published 1982
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.98 — 347,631 ratings — published 1937
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.29 — 531,482 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.95 — 436,001 ratings — published 1987
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.06 — 401,566 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.40 — 333,298 ratings — published 2015
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.47 — 341,881 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.36 — 267,925 ratings — published 1965
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,049,343 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.52 — 108,186 ratings — published 2010
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.32 — 371,451 ratings — published 2013
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.30 — 218,432 ratings — published 1979
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.91 — 188,004 ratings — published 1952
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,882 ratings — published 2010
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.11 — 253,168 ratings — published 1970
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.54 — 100,576 ratings — published 1963
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.16 — 87,517 ratings — published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.49 — 694,696 ratings — published 2016
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.73 — 372,324 ratings — published 1958
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,768 ratings — published 2001
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.79 — 522,077 ratings — published 2019
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,330 ratings — published 2016
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.07 — 110,185 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.12 — 735,854 ratings — published 2010
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.50 — 16,184 ratings — published 2007
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.94 — 359,029 ratings — published 2018
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.11 — 123,792 ratings — published 1845
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.30 — 42,378 ratings — published 1903
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.48 — 51,385 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.26 — 245,495 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni's Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.32 — 157,305 ratings — published 1956
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.17 — 163,814 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.11 — 223,787 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.54 — 36,098 ratings — published 2016
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,879 ratings — published 1995
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.38 — 95,510 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.50 — 104,807 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.63 — 231,898 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.58 — 28,477 ratings — published 1981
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.04 — 68,652 ratings — published 1953
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.21 — 168,360 ratings — published 1993
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.34 — 227,969 ratings — published 2020
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.35 — 134,965 ratings — published 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.38 — 70,096 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.38 — 114,544 ratings — published 2019
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,695 ratings — published 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 3.67 — 294,244 ratings — published 2018
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as black-history-month)
avg rating 4.34 — 159,093 ratings — published 2006
“Justice Beyond Month (Sonnet 1182)
Pride that ends with the end of June,
is but an episode of looney tunes.
Divergence that dies with April's wake,
is no inclusion but bark of buffoons.
Black history that ends with the end of February,
is not solidarity but a hashtag cacophony.
Women's history that ends with the end of March,
is no celebration but a sacrilege of equality.
When AAPI are only visible in the month of May,
It ain't no visibility but a mockery of life.
When nativeness is welcome till October 15th,
It ain't integration but desecration of light.
Awareness is justice when it reduces prejudice.
But one that's trendy only in specific months,
is no awareness but a different kind of malice.
Acceptance is awareness, awareness is life.
100 calendars fall short to celebrate mindlight.”
― Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
Pride that ends with the end of June,
is but an episode of looney tunes.
Divergence that dies with April's wake,
is no inclusion but bark of buffoons.
Black history that ends with the end of February,
is not solidarity but a hashtag cacophony.
Women's history that ends with the end of March,
is no celebration but a sacrilege of equality.
When AAPI are only visible in the month of May,
It ain't no visibility but a mockery of life.
When nativeness is welcome till October 15th,
It ain't integration but desecration of light.
Awareness is justice when it reduces prejudice.
But one that's trendy only in specific months,
is no awareness but a different kind of malice.
Acceptance is awareness, awareness is life.
100 calendars fall short to celebrate mindlight.”
― Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Dedicated to Hitler
(Sonnet of Lesser Evil)
I'll write a book of german sonnets,
and dedicate it to Adolf Hitler.
The very thought makes you mad right!
I feel the same way when you
glorify Churchill as savior.
The west has systematically peddled
morons and monkeys as kings heroic,
white suffering is human suffering, while
the colored belong on national geographic.
Sure every society has its own troubles,
All of humanity has its inhumanity.
But the west doesn't have the high ground,
to pass judgment on ethics and morality.
If morality did have a scale,
West would be scraping the bottom.
If this tickles you the wrong way,
You are what is wrong with our western world.”
― Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
(Sonnet of Lesser Evil)
I'll write a book of german sonnets,
and dedicate it to Adolf Hitler.
The very thought makes you mad right!
I feel the same way when you
glorify Churchill as savior.
The west has systematically peddled
morons and monkeys as kings heroic,
white suffering is human suffering, while
the colored belong on national geographic.
Sure every society has its own troubles,
All of humanity has its inhumanity.
But the west doesn't have the high ground,
to pass judgment on ethics and morality.
If morality did have a scale,
West would be scraping the bottom.
If this tickles you the wrong way,
You are what is wrong with our western world.”
― Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
