Long-Term Diverse Reading Challenge - hosted by tsprengel

Race/Ethnicity - Read a book about the Black experience
All books added
Color by Countee Cullen

Color

Countee Cullen

108 pages • digital • 1925

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

11 hours, 40 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction education race challenging informative sad medium-paced
Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

288 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography history politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy

Black Teacher

Beryl Gilroy

272 pages • digital • 1976 user-added

nonfiction biography historical history memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

396 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction crime poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay, Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith

Jackie Kay, Jackie Kay

208 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction biography memoir music informative reflective slow-paced
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Esau McCaulley

240 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir race emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
X: A Novel by Kekla Magoon, Ilyasah Shabazz

X: A Novel

Malcolm X #1

Kekla Magoon, Ilyasah Shabazz

384 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction historical young adult adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race by John Frederick Bell
Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race
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John Frederick Bell

Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race

Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

John Frederick Bell

missing page info • digital user-added

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced