12 Books By Black Authors

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67 participants (336 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read one book by a Black author a month for the whole year. It doesn’t matter the genre, author’s gender, release date, traditional published or indie. As long as the author is Black it counts! Use #12BooksByBlackAuthors if you post on social media. 

Challenge Books

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

6 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Deacon King Kong

James McBride

370 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Magnolia: A Perfect Love by Asia Monique

Magnolia: A Perfect Love

Flower Sisters #1

Asia Monique

5 hours, 1 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction romance emotional lighthearted fast-paced
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Eve L. Ewing

12 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction history race
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

169 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

3 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

Nikki Giovanni

124 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

This Could Be Us

Skyland #2

Kennedy Ryan

12 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Cinderella Masquerade by LaQuette

Cinderella Masquerade

Texas Cattleman's Club: Ranchers and Rivals #7

LaQuette

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Sky Full of Elephants

Cebo Campbell

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction magical realism science fiction adventurous challenging hopeful slow-paced