16 popular books about Black History, according to Goodreads

With the dawn of Black History Month comes deep reflection, reverence and appreciation — regardless if your roots pay homage to the national month or not.While it’s important to honor and amplify Black voices (and learn from the highs-and-lows-filled history) all throughout the year, February’s Black History Month is that year-round honor, just shouted from a megaphone.In the workplace, on social media and throughout bookstore shelves.To gain perspective, expand upon your knowledge and understand history and first-person accounts some more, we rounded up the 16 most popular books about Black History, according to Goodreads members.From critically acclaimed memoirs to investigative reporting accounts, you’ll have quite a few paperbacks (or Audible books, if you prefer listening rather than flipping) to add to your reading list.Sign up for an Audible membership for listening to these titles on the go.Deemed “a landmark biography,” per Goodreads, this prize-winner was written by two Washington Post reporters, revealing how systemic racism shaped the happenings of George Floyd’s life.

From roots in North Carolina’s tobacco fields to continuous inequality in housing, education and so forth, it’s a raw-honest read worth picking up.As a “galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America’s unsolved problem with race,” according to Goodreads, this Pulitzer Prize finalist helps to explore the attitudes and experiences that the author self-describes as the Trayvon Generation — an era brutalized by inequality that is expounded upon in this elongated essay.With this book, contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith “leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks — those that are honest about the past and those that are not — that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves,” per Goodreads.Taking place in a Monticell...