2021 Book Recommendations

January 2021

• Nnedi Okorafor - "After the Rain"
• Kiese Laymon - "How to slowly kill yourself and others in America"

February 2021

• Krystal Nikol - "Poems about Him"
• Cicely Tyson - "Just As I Am"

March 2021

• "Africanfuturism: An Anthology" - edited by Wole Talabi
• Brittle Paper

April 2021

• "High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing" - edited by Audrey Petty
• Heather Ann Thompson - "Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City"

May and June 2021

• Dr. Erika Gibson - "Preparing Girls for War"
• Brenda Jackson - "Finding Home Again"
• LaCharmine Jefferson - "Unfinished Business"
• Dr. Myrtle Means - "The Recipe for Ecstasy"
• Carla Moore - "Crash! Leading Through The Wreckage"
• Dr. Germaine Pentsil - "The Rebel Factory Series"
• Sheri Riley - "Exponential Living"
• Gin Noon Spaulding - "Jump-O-Ween"
• Ruth Watson - "Who Said a Girl Can't Be President?"
• Tywauna Wilson - "Girl, Get Up and Win!"

August 2021

• Michelle Poler - "hello, FEARS"
• Terry Smith - "The Art of Armed Robbery"

September 2021/October 2021

• Roxane Gay - "Hunger"
• bell hooks - "all about love"

November 2021

• Kayla Aliese Carter - "The Grim Reaper's Rifle"
• Anthony Frasier- "Raising the Game: The Untold Story of Jerry Lawson"

December 2021

• Nnedi Okorafor - "Remote Control" 
• Namina Forna "The Gilded Ones"