Black History Month

Canada Reads American Style

Rebecca and Tara celebrate Black History Month with their picks and TBR!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
• Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall
• The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
• South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
• Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
• Lies About Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters by Omekongo Dibinga
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall; illustrated by Hugo Martínez

Tara (@onabranchreads)

• Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
• https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/moon-of-the-turning-leaves/
• In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
• Dread Nation; Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
• James; The Trees by Percival Everett
• The African Samurai by Craig Shreve
• Frying Plantain; River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta
• George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke