Black & Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Reading List

Here are some of our favorite books by BIPOC authors!

fiction

  1. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

  2.  Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

  3. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

  4. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

  5. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  6. The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

  7. No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

  8. The Talking Drum by Lisa Braxton

  9. Bivouac by Kwame Dawes

  10. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

  11. Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor

  12. One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet

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young adult

 

  1. This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

  2. Wings of Ebony by J. Elle

  3. Slay by Brittney Morris

  4. Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

  5. Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall

  6. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

  7. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

 

nonfiction

  1. American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

  2. Ida B. The Queen by Michelle Duster

  3. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

  4. This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe

  5. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

  6. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  7. The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

  8. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

  9. #veryfat #verybrave by Nicole Byer

  10. Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

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poetry & zines

  1. The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

  2. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

  3. Black Girl Magic: A Poem by Mahogany L. Browne & Jess X. Snow

  4. The Nez Perce Indians by John Gerlach

  5. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

  6. Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker

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picture books & chapter books

  1. Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams

  2. Curls by Ruth Forman & Geneva Bowers

  3. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

  4. The Magic in Changing Your Stars by Leah Henderson

  5. The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

  6. Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

  7. The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banai

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