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Omaha Reading Challenge 2023: Read a book by a Black writer

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list features titles by a Black writer. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • Book, 2022New York : Orbit, 2022. — FICTION Jemisin 2022
  • The Memory Librarian

    and Other Stories of Dirty Computer

    Monáe, Janelle,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2022] — SCIENCE FICTION Monae 2022
  • Book, 2011New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011. — FICTION Ward 2011
  • Here for It

    Or, How to Save Your Soul in America : Essays

    Thomas, R. Eric,
    Book, 2020New York : Ballantine Books, [2020] — B Thomas 2020
  • Wandering in Strange Lands

    a Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

    Jerkins, Morgan,
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — 305.896 Jerkins 2020
  • Koshersoul

    the Faith and Food Journey of An African American Jew

    Twitty, Michael, 1977-
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 641.5676 Twitty 2022
  • Book, 2021New York : MCD x FSG Originals, 2021. — FICTION Purnell 2021
  • Book, 2021Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — FICTION Askaripour 2021
  • Undrowned

    Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals

    Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-
    Book, 2020Chico, CA ; Edinburgh, Scotland : AK Press, [2020] — 306.45 Gumbs 2020
  • Book, 2020New York : Flatiron Books, [2020] — FICTION Cosby 2020
  • Book, 2022New York : Penguin Press, 2022. — B Enninful 2022
  • Black Is the Body

    Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

    Bernard, Emily, 1967-
    Book, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — B Bernard 2019
  • Black Nature

    Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

    Book, 2009Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009. — 811 Black 2009
  • Book, 2021New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION Williams 2021