Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Halloween/BLACK-OWEEN-ATHON: TBR/Mood Read


 Black-Oween-Athon - Google Drive 

The Black-Oween-Athon is a readathon encouraging readers to read more novels by Black authors and with Black characters.

I'm a mood reader and just can't do a TBR. I also tend to finish only about 1-2 books a month thanks to everything else I have going on. So mines is not exactly a TBR, instead it is the list of books rec'd in the Google Drive above ^ and highlighted are books that I'm interested in reading this October, and/or any other month/day.!
Every October/Fall/Halloween I am drawn to read horror and mystery so this year I'm going to try to leave Stephen King alone and find more Black authors to read!

I have a bunch of books, that aren't highlighted, on my TBR but they aren't highlighted because they aren't on my Halloween/Fall TBR


 Orange:Blackoween/Halloween TBR                  Yellow:Read



Group Read: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Black Queer, Trans, & Non-Binary Book Recs

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon

The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters

Running with Lions by Julian Winters

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner

Queer Africa (Selected Stories)

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

 

Black Fantasy Recs

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

How Long ‘Til Black Future by N.K. Jemisin

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Binti Series by Nnedi Okorafor

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeymi

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Fallin in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson

Dark Matter by Sheree Thomas

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Skinfolk by Nalo Hopkinson

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

The Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorafor

 

Black Mermaids & Sirens Recs

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci, Illustrator: Brain Pinkney

Mermaid Dreams by Kate Pugsley

The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Mermaid’s Twin Sister: More Stories from Trinidad by Lynn Joseph

The House of Whispers by Nalo Hopkinson

 

Black Author: Thriller Recs

The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey

The Unkind Hours by Dwayne Alexander Smith

The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith

Treasure in Exile by S.W. Hubbard

Between Black and White by Robert Bailey

The Cutting Season Attica Locke

Redemption (Urban Paranormal) by Edwina Fort

Makeup and Mayhem by Ava Zuma

Temple Secrets by Susan Gabriel

The Tangled Woods (Dark Corners Series) by Emily Raboteau

Nana by Brandon Massey

Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

 

Black Mystery Recs

A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette

Louisiana Hotshot: A New Orleans Murder Mystery by Julie Smith

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Highway 59 series by Attica Locke

Detective Elouise Norton series by Rachel Howzell Hall

Fearless Jones Series by Walter Mosely

Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

Pennywise by Jill Brock

Vernetta Henderson Series by Pamela Samuels Young

Down the River Unto the Sea Walter Mosley

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

 

Black Witches Recs

Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorafor

Conjured Women by Afia Atakora

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Apprentice: The Last Witch of Rome by Rhett Gervais

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

 

Black Historical Fiction Recs

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet

The Water Dancer by Ta-nehisi Coates

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Mustard Seed by Laila Ibrahim

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Golden Poppies by Laila Ibrahim

Chosen by Rehett Gervais

House of the Patriarch by Barbara Hambly

The Moon Above by Brett Davis

When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Apprentice: The Last Witch of Rome by Rhett Gervais

Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Small Country by Gael Faye

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

Beloved by Toni Morrison

 

 

Intersectionality by Black Author Recs

(black authors don’t often say the word intersectionality in their work YET, though what they write about is intersectional).

On Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw

How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Can We All Be Feminists, edited by June Eric-Udorie

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Me, You, and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

The Grace of Silence by Michelle Norris

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

Hunger by Roxanne Gay

Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

Under the Udala Tree by Chinelo Okparanta

Slay in Your Lane by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

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