Books I've Read in the Past Twelve Months
In no particular order:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Unbound:My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas
Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
They Cant Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Luster by Raven Leilani
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Hagar Poems by Mohja Kahf
If God is a Virus by Seema Yasmin
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan
The Best Prey by Paige Quiñones
I am the Darker Brother: an Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
