Browse the Collection
African American Books
Lists and More
Kindred Lists, Blog Posts, and other things
Black History Month Reads for Kids!
Titles recommended by the Kindred Team and available at the Eckstrom-Columbus Library Branch.
Black Girls and Black Women Who Led the Way
Read about all the amazing Black Women who have contributed so much to our world, and the Black Girls who are following in their footsteps.
Black History Month
Black History and Stories - Picture and Non-fiction books on Black history for children!
Black History through the eyes of romance authors
Explore these histories of Black folks falling in love and doing all kinds of other amazing things.
Chapter books & graphic novels for kids by Black authors
Celebrate Black History Month with this list of books for young readers!
Celebrating Black Authors - YA Edition!
This list has books of romance, horror, and literary fiction (just to name a few). I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Celebrate Black History for kids
Black scientists, inventors, teachers, artists, poets, politicians, and mathematicians
Black History through graphic novels
This list contains the stories of Black history through graphic novels. Some intended for children while others contain adult content.
Autobiographies & Memoirs to read for Black History Month
This list contains the stories of Black Americans told in their words. Perfect for reading in Black History Month and all year long.
Black Queer History
It's Black History Month! These nonfiction titles from our collection cover Black history (and the present day) from a queer perspective.
New Black History
Here are fiction and nonfiction books by Black authors about people and events in Black history published in the last couple of years.
Read Black Book Chat - December 2025
Every December, we focus primarily on books that came out in the past 12 months, but there are a few others that we wanted to highlight.
Read Black Recs: 2025 Releases
Every year for December's Read Black Book Chat, we discuss books that were released in the previous 12 months.
Read Black Book Chat - October 2025
The Read Black Book Club recently met - Here's the titles that were discussed, mostly works by Black authors centering the Black community.
Read Black Book Club Through the Years
Here is the collected list of all of the titles we've read together as the Read Black Book Club since 2021!
Beyond "Books Invited": 2024 Books We Didn't Get To
When the Kindred Team decided to compile the Books Invited to the Cookout book list, we know we might have missed some bangers.
