Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R.
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Pinkett Smith has spoken openly about her struggles with hair loss which is difficult for anyone but especially hard in the sexist and image-conscious world of American celebrity, where women, especially, endure an endless litany of comments about their appearance, their sartorial choices, their relationships and anything else people can find to pick apart.
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride.
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter.
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower by Brittney Cooper.
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon.
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Roxane Gay was amongst those who tweeted out in support of Dessen.
Poetry/Verse: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. He hands it to me and says, I thought you might like this, and I take the baby arm and tell him if hes not careful, I will fall in love and he says he would.
Historical Fiction: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed, Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink, Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden, Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden.
Thrillers/Mystery: Grown by Tiffany Jackson, Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson, Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson, Overturned by Lamar Giles.
Realistic Fiction: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi, Slay by Brittney Morris, I'm Not Dying With You Tonight Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the editor of The Selected Works of Audre Lorde and the author of the memoir Hunger, among others.
Romance: I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest, You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson, Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant, Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson.
Science-Fiction: A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope edited by Patrice Caldwell, Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson, The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow, Mirage by Somaiya Daud.
Brown, Cinderella is Deadby Kalynn Bayron, Legendbornby Tracy Deonn, Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Fantasy: A Song of Wraiths and Ruinsby Roseanne A.