Recommending Books by Black Authors || 2023 [CC]

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📚 The Books 📚

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
I Love Me! by Marvyn Harrison & Diane Ewen
Oxygen Mask by Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
Bless the Daughter Raised by A Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Christmas In Rosebend by Naima Simone
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Consumed by Aja Barber
Grown: Black Girl's Guide to Glowing Up by Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

⚡️Content Warnings ⚡️

All Boys Aren't Blue: Racism, homophobia, police brutality, violence, sexual assault, grief
The Office of Historical Corrections: death, cancer, grief, racism and internalised racism, violence, car crash, suicide, murder
Oxygen Mask: covid pandemic, racism, climate change
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry: racism, classism, divorce, dementia, blackmail, cyberbullying
What Happened to You?: child whipping as discipline, domestic abuse, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, divorce, guild abuse, death row, racism, death
Bless the Daughter Raised by A Voice in Her Head: racism, xenophobia, war, grief, cancer, death, sexual assault, displacement due to war, bulimia
Christmas In Rosebend: grief
Things I Have Withheld: racism, sexism, child abuse, mentions of rape and child molestation, transphobia, homophobia, grief, police brutality
Red at the Bone: mentions of drug addiction, smoking, racism, mentions of massacre, miscarriage, grief, cancer, 9/11
Black and Female: racism, colonialism, slavery, sexism
Recitatif: bullying, ableism, racism
Opposite of Always: death, sickle cell anaemia, racism
Grown: Black Girl's Guide to Glowing Up: racism, colourism, texturism, fatphobia (tackling all of these subjects and warning about them)
Hunger: gang rape, fatphobia, fat shaming, bullying, smoking, bulimia, self-loathing
Wash Day Diaries: dementia, depression, stalking
White Smoke: drug addiction, anxiety, trauma, sleep paralysis, racism, false imprisonment, fire
On the Come Up: mentions of past drug addiction, racism, profiling, overpolicing, drug dealing, gang behaviour, gaslighting

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