Black Lives Matter: Adult Fiction

February 9, 2021 | Patton

The following books affirm as well as celebrate Black lives, experiences, culture, and offer openings for discussions about racial injustice. Click here for more titles on the topic.

An American marriage by Tayari Jones
There you are by Mathea Morais
Go tell it on the mountain by 1924-1987 James Baldwin
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel by Jesmyn Ward
The Nickel boys : a novel by 1969- Colson Whitehead
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
Friday black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Three-fifths : a novel by John Vercher
The bluest eye by Toni Morrison
Ring shout : or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the end times by P. Djèlí Clark

Graphic Novels

Sports is hell by artist Ben Passmore
Big Black : Stand at Attica by 1933-2004 Frank Smith
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Hot comb by illustrator Ebony Flowers
Vindication by M. D. Marie
Bitter root. Volume one, Family business by creator 1968- David Walker
March. Book 1 by 1940 February 21- John Lewis