Dive deeper in Sonoma County Library's Together at the Table series by exploring the following materials.
MATERIALS LIST
Explore this topic further through extensive booklists of materials available to check out in the library. Materials are available for kids, families, teens and adults and come in a variety of formats including fiction, nonfiction, picture books, DVDs and graphic novels.
The materials on this list offer people of all ages opportunities to dig deeper into the topic of Blackness in America, to gain an understanding historical and current experiences, the impacts of on our country and communities, and how this topic shaped and continues to shape our nation.
NONFICTION
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria: and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
The Warmth of Other Suns: the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson
We Gon' Be Alright: notes on race and resegregation by Jeff Chang
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Can't Breathe: a killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Locking Up Our Own: crime and punishment in black America by James Forman
Long Shot: the triumph and struggles of an NBA freedom fighter by Craig Hodges
Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools by Monique Morris
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
We were eight years in power: an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Roots by Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcom X
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
White Rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carole Anderson
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
Tears We Cannot Stop: a sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Of Poetry and Protest: from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin edited and compiled by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr
The Color of Law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
FICTION
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Lightning Men: a novel by Thomas Mullen
Amiable with big teeth: a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem by Claude McKay
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Underground Railraod by Colson Whitehead
Native Son by Richard Wright
Sing, Unburied, Sing: a novel by Jesmyn Ward
The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
Rusty Puppy by Joe R. Lansdale
Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar
TEENS
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
March. Book One, March. Book Two,March Book Three by John Lewis
Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Soaring Inspiration: the journey of an original Tuskegee airman by Granville Coggs and Anita Coggs Rowell
Loving Vs. Virginia: a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case by Patricia Hruby Powell
Ahgottahandleonit by Donovan Mixon
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
X: a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
CHILDREN'S
It All Comes Down to This by Karen English
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
The Other Half of my Heart by Sundee Tucker Frazier
28 Days: moments in Black history that changed the world by Charles R. Smith
Knock Knock: my dad's dream for me by Daniel Beaty 
We March by Shane Evans
I, Too, Am American by Langston Hughes
The Book Itch: freedom, truth and Harlem's greatest bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Armstrong & Charlie by Steven Frank
One Good Thing About America by Ruth Freeman
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds
Roll Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Youngest Marcher: the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks by Cynthia Levinson
Radiant Child: the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Calico Girl by Jerdine Nolen
Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston WeatherfordDOCUMENTARIES
The Black Panthers Vanguard of the Revolution by Stanley Nelson
Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
13th by Ava DuVernay
Dark Girls by Stephanie A. 
The African Americans many rivers cross by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson
Slavery by Another Name by Sam Pollard
The Black List by HBO Documentary Films
Soundtrack for a Revolution by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: a documentary in 9 chapters by Goran Hugo Olsson The Together at the Table project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
The opinions expressed herein do not reflect the position of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Srevices, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library, and no official endorsement by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library should be inferred.
