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We’re honoring Black History Month the way we know We’re honoring Black History Month the way we know best: through stories that challenge, illuminate, comfort, and transform. Stories that remind us that Black history is American history—and literary history. What’s in your Black History Month reading stack? Drop your recs below! FICTION "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" — James McBride "James" — Percival Everett "Homegoing" — Yaa Gyasi "The Wilderness" — Angela Flournoy "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies" — Deesha Philyaw "Half of a Yellow Sun" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Devil in a Blue Dress" — Walter Mosley "The Nickel Boys" — Colson Whitehead "The Vanishing Half" — Brit Bennett NONFICTION "The Jailhouse Lawyer" — Calvin Duncan & Sophie Cull "Stony the Road" — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" — Isabel Wilkerson "Punch Me Up to the Gods" — Brian Broome "An Unspeakable Hope" — Leon Ford "Brothers and Keepers" — John Edgar Wideman "Rhetoric, Intersectionality, and Black Women in Pittsburgh" — Tahira J. Walker "The House at Sugar Beach" — Helene Cooper "That’s How They Get You" — Edited by Damon Young YOUNG ADULT "Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy" — Angie Thomas "The Family I’m In" — Sharon G. Flake "New Kid" — Jerry Craft "Ghost Boys" — Jewell Parker Rhodes "Long Way Down" (Graphic Novel Edition) — Jason Reynolds (art by Danica Novgorodoff) "Yesterday Is History" — Kosoko Jackson "Out of My Mind" — Sharon M. Draper "The Sun Is Also a Star" — Nicola Yoon "Scythe" — Neal Shusterman

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      • Adriana Ramírez
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