Historical Fiction for Black History Month

February is Black History Month! Celebrate with one of these historical fiction titles by Black authors released in the last ten years, most since 2020. 

Enslavement

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, print | large print | audio | playaway | ebook | eaudio
• Grace, Natashia Deón, print | eaudio 
• Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
• The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr., print | large print | ebook | eaudio
• Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy, print | audio | ebook
• Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

Civil War

• An Extraordinary Union, Alyssa Cole, print | ebook | eaudio
• The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
• Black Cloud Rising, David Wright Faladé, print | ebook | eaudio

1900s-1920s

• Ring Shout, P. Djeli Clark, print | ebook | eaudio
• Coleman Hill, Kim Coleman Foote, print
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle, print | ebook | eaudio

WWII

• Sisters in Arms, Kaia Alderson, print | ebook | eaudio​

​1950s

• The Reformatory*, Tananarive Due, print
• The House of Eve, Sadeqa Johnson, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
• On the Rooftop, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, print | ebook | eaudio

1960s

• Deacon King Kong, James McBride, print | ebook | eaudio
• Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West, print | ebook
• Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
• The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

1970s

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
• Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

1980s

• The Unsettled*, Ayana Mathis, print
• A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, print | ebook | eaudio

1990s

• What’s Mine and Yours, Naima Coster, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
• What the Fireflies Knew, Kai Harris, print | ebook | eaudio
• Memphis, Tara M. Stringfellow, print | ebook | eaudio

Multiple time periods

• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, print | ebook | eaudio
• In West Mills, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, print | ebook
• Monster in the Middle, Tiphanie Yanique, print | ebook | eaudio

*These titles are very new—it's likely that ebooks will be added to the collection soon!