Black History Month 2020

8th October, 2020

Oneworld is committed to publishing diverse voices from around the world. To mark Black History Month 2020, we’re celebrating our black authors, and books that explore black history. 

Fiction: 

A Cupboard Full of Coats – Yvvette Edwards

The Book of Night Women – Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James

The Sellout  – Paul Beatty

The White Boy Shuffle – Paul Beatty

An American Marriage – Tayari Jones

Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones

Kintu – Jennifer Makumbi

The First Woman – Jennifer Makumbi

His Only Wife – Peace Adzo Medie

Beneath the Darkening Sky – Majok Tulba

Hiding in Plain Sight – Nuruddin Farah

The Lost Child – Caryl Phillips

Can I Touch Your Hair? – Charles Waters

Another Brooklyn – Jacqueline Woodson

The Meursault Investigation – Kamel Daoud

Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn

Patsy – Nicole Dennis-Benn

Non-fiction:

House of Music – Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

On the Other Side of Freedom – DeRay Mckesson

Skin Deep – Gavin Evans

Breaking Sudan – Jok Madut Jok

Inside the Gender Jihad – Amina Wadud

Black Tudors – Miranda Kaufmann