LibraryAware February: ADULT Read a book by a Black author in honor of Black History Month

Check out these suggested titles for adults:

As the Wicked Watch
by Tamron Hall

After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women in the first novel of a new series from the Emmy Award-winning journalist.

All That She Carried : the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles

The story of how three generations of Black women have passed down a family treasure—a sack filled with a few precious items given from an enslaved woman to her daughter in 1850s South Carolina.

Blacktop Wasteland
by S. A. Cosby

Compelled by poverty to agree to a lucrative final heist that will allow him to go straight, a skilled getaway driver finds his efforts complicated by racial dynamics and the ghosts of his past.

Blood Grove
by Walter Mosley

After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.

The Fifth Season
by N. K Jemisin

A first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.

Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead

A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist, in the new novel from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad.

The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books, 26-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel is hired until she after a string uncomfortable events, is elevated to Office Darling, leaving Nella in the dust.

A Spell for Trouble
by Esme Addison

Aleksandra Daniels returns to Bellamy Bay, North Carolina to help her estranged relatives run their herbal apothecary and discovers rumors about her family being magical healers descended from mermaids after her aunt Lidia is arrested for poisoning a local.

The Undertakers
by Nicole Glover

Magical practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia, Hetty and Benjy Rhodes investigate the deaths of a father and son linked to the recent fires plaguing the city.

What You Don't See
by Tracy Clark

When a celebrity stalking turns deadly and lands her policeman friend in the hospital, private investigator Cass Raines must find and bring the attacker to justice.

While We Were Dating
by Jasmine Guillory

Featuring Ben Stephens, Theo’s brother from The Wedding Party, this charming and hilarious new romance finds Ben and a famous actress struggling to keep their working relationship strictly professional.

Wolf Point
by Ian Smith

When Walter Griffin, a prominent Black Chicagoan insider, is found in a watery grave at Wolf Point, his death ruled a suicide, PI Ashe Cayne investigates on behalf of Griffin’s children and navigates a city rotting with corruption, racial tensions and sketchy backroom deals where it’s every man for himself.