Walsall Council’s Library Service has developed a reading list that includes a range of titles available through the libraries themselves, eBooks, or eAudiobooks. They are available free through the Borrow Box app with a Walsall library card.
For more information, visit the Walsall Council website.
Adult Non-Fiction
Name of book | Author |
Natives | Akala |
And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou |
Letters To My Daughter | Maya Angelou |
Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community & the Great War | Stephen Bourne |
Mother Country: real stories of the Windrush children | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff |
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race | Reni Eddo-Lodge |
Empire’s Crossroads– A History of the Caribbean | Carrie Gibson |
The truths we hold: an American journey | Kamala Harris |
Who Am I Again? | Lenny Henry |
Voices of the Windrush generation: the real story told by the people themselves | David Matthews |
Mandela | Martin Meredith |
A promised land | Barack Obama |
Becoming | Michelle Obama |
Black and British: A Forgotten History | David Olusoga |
Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers | Emy Onuora |
Me and white supremacy: how to recognise your privilege, combat racism and change the world | Layla F Saad |
Hidden figures: the untold story of the African-American women who helped win the space race | Margot Lee Shetterly |
The Good Immigrant | Nikesh Shukla |
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah | Benjamin Zephaniah |
Adult Fiction
Name of book | Author |
The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman |
Washington Black: a novel | Esi Edugyan |
Invisible man | Ralph Ellison |
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
Cane warriors | Alex Wheatle |
The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
American Histories | John Edgar Wideman |
Red at the bone | Jacqueline Woodson |
Junior Non-Fiction
Name of book | Author |
When Rosa Parks Met Martin Luther King JR | Zoe Clarke |
Resistance and Abolition | Dan Lyndon |
Africa and the Slave Trade | Dan Lyndon |
Community and Identity | Dan Lyndon |
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies | DK |
Who was Rosa Parks? | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
Black and British: a short, essential history | David Olusoga |
Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round | Doreen Rappaport |
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad | Philip Steele |
Black History Matters | Robin Walker |
Martin Luther King | Verna Wilkins |
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