2017 was filled with extreme highs and lows, HOWEVER, I read some amazing books! Take a journey with me on some of the best books I read this year, and books I have on my radar for 2018. Pssst! I can't talk about youth books by and for African American children in 2018. I'm serving on the 2019 and 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, and it's going to be hard, but I'm so excited.
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MY FAVORITE READS PUBLISHED IN 2017
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sisters by Lily Tuck
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It by Charlamagne tha God
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, & John Jennings
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
MY FAVORITE READS PUBLISHED PRIOR TO 2017 THAT I READ IN 2017
Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Anderson
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness by Maddie Dawson
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Imbue
Sins of the Father by Thelonious Legend
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth
Tyrell by Coe Booth
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks it Down by Joan Morgan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Runaway: How a Slave Defied America's First President by Bill Donahue
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Coming Clean: A Memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Lower Ed: How For Profit Colleges Deepen Inequality in America by Tressie McMillan Collum
BOOKS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2018!
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The House of Erzulie by Kirsten Imani Kasai
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullers and asha bandele
Abbott by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Hopefully I write more book reviews....make more BookTube videos...and rake up all the blessings in 2018.
Have an awesome year.
