#ReadingBlackout: 28 Days of Books by Black Authors
Celebrating Black History Month
Nonfiction
- Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lines by Dick Gregory
- All About Love by bell hooks
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement by Charlene Carruthers
- Hip-Hop is History by Questlove and Ben Greenman
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
- A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Fiction
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Palaver by Bryan Washington
- Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Talk by Darrin Bell
- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Note: Links here will open in a new window and go to Overdrive, a collection of e-books and audiobooks made available to the CMU community and to Mesa County Public Libraries cardholders. Find a title you're interested in? Use the free Libby app to read or listen. (Not sure how? See the information below!)
Want more? Check out Overdrive's (even longer!) African American Nonfiction and African American Fiction lists!
If you want to read any of these titles as ebooks, or listen to them as audio books, follow these steps to use your MavCard:
- Download the Liby app
- "Do you have a library card?" --> Yes!
- "Search for library" by zipcode
- "Marmot Library Network"
- "Sign in with my card"
- "Colorado Mesa University"
- Use your MavZone login.
- Enjoy!
Don't have a CMU MavCard to access Libby?
- You can use Libby with your Mesa County Public Libraries card, too!
- Don't have one? Get the process started today!
Want to access the book in print?
- Chat with Librarians at CMU -- or Librarians at MCPLD -- for help getting access to titles of interest in the format you prefer!