Book List 2026 Inspiring Journeys Reading List Updated: January 8, 2026 Books in this List With Open Hands: A Story About Biddy Mason Library Catalog OverDrive The ABCs of Black History Library Catalog OverDrive Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Library Catalog OverDrive hoopla Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History Library Catalog OverDrive The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop Library Catalog OverDrive Hair Like Obama's, Hands Like Lebron's Library Catalog OverDrive Ablaze With Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas Library Catalog OverDrive Poemhood: Our Black Revival Library Catalog OverDrive Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South Library Catalog OverDrive Black History is Your History Library Catalog OverDrive King: A Life Library Catalog OverDrive Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832 Library Catalog OverDrive Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel Library Catalog OverDrive The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood Library Catalog OverDrive Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known Library Catalog OverDrive Before 13th: A Graphic Novel Library Catalog OverDrive American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky Library Catalog OverDrive Female, Gifted, and Black: Awesome Art and Literary Pioneers Who Changed the World Library Catalog OverDrive Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America Library Catalog OverDrive Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 Library Catalog L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles From the Great Depression to the Present Library Catalog The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles Library Catalog OverDrive No Crystal Stair: African-Americans in the City of Angels Library Catalog OverDrive Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View Library Catalog OverDrive Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era Library Catalog We Now Belong to Ourselves: J.L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America Library Catalog OverDrive
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South Library Catalog OverDrive
American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky Library Catalog OverDrive
Female, Gifted, and Black: Awesome Art and Literary Pioneers Who Changed the World Library Catalog OverDrive
L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles From the Great Depression to the Present Library Catalog
The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles Library Catalog OverDrive
We Now Belong to Ourselves: J.L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America Library Catalog OverDrive
