Look through your bookshelves and assess whether you need to diversify the voices that you’re reading. Our guess is you probably do – that we all do.
Reading work from a range of diverse voices can only better our understanding of each other and of plight’s we might not otherwise consider. But that being said, work by Black writers isn’t there just to educate the white reader. There’s so much joy and celebration in these book picks, as well as heavier reads that call for deeper reflection and then action.
If you’re looking for your next unputdownable read, we think you’ll find it here. There’s Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, which we’ve been recommending to anyone who will listen since we finished it, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo whose skillful portraying of womanhood had us crying in the work kitchen, and classics like poems by Langston Hughes. Anyone who grew up in the Noughties might recognise Keisha the Sket, an online coming-of-age story written in 2005 by the-then 13-year old Jade LB. It’s being published as a book for the first time and we reckon it’s about to be discovered by a whole new millennial fan base.
After more books content? We’ve got sleep books, cookbooks, poetry books, romance novels, true crime books, autobiographies, vegetarian cookbooks, mental health books and adult colouring books. We’ve also got coffee table books, summer books, vegan cookbooks and books by black authors. Don’t say we don’t treat you.
Scroll to see our top 33 books by Black authors.
