Here are 10 great book recommendations from some of the best.
If you’re looking for your next great read, we’ve got you covered.
We reached out to them for recommendations for equally stellar reads form other Black authors.
Scribner
Here are their picks.
You won’t be the same after reading it.
This is a balancing act that cannot be overlooked.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This question is at the core of Dante Stewart’s heart-wrenching memoir,Shoutin' in the Fire.
Before 2016, Stewart’s path in life was all but set.
He’d played football for one of the best college teams in the States.
HarperCollins
He’d married the love of his life.
And he was a prodigious preacher-in-training at a church in Georgia.
For the record, Stewart is Black.
Crown
And this church he was going to be the first Black preacher at?
We need more writing like this in the world.
This is a book that does what all art should do: make the unseen impossible to ignore.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Her absent mother doesn’t see her.
Her ultra-religious father doesn’t see her.
And no one in her midwestern town sees her.
Running Press
Yes, you read that right.
-Mateo Askaripour
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