
Celebrating Black History Month: Reading Recommendations
Celebrating Black History Month: Reading Recommendations
February marks Black History Month and 2022’s theme is “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day.” We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult and children’s books that celebrate Black voices.
February marks Black History Month and 2022’s theme is “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day.” We asked our editors of Quill & Quire for their favourite reads. See the recommended adult and children’s books that celebrate Black voices.

Adult Books
Shared by Attila Berki, Quill & Quire‘s acting review editor
On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
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Gutter Child by Jael Richardson
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The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
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Black Matters by Afua Cooper; Wilfried Raussert (photog.)
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Burning Sugar by Cicely Belle Blain
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Children’s Books
Shared by Inderjit Deogun, Quill & Quire‘s books for young people editor
Dear Black Girls by Shanice Nicole and Kezna Dalz, ill.
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Race with Me! by Andre De Grasse; Robert Budd; Joseph Osei Bonsu (ill.)
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Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Achievement by Lindsay Ruck and James Bentley, ill.
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Welcome to the Cypher by Khodi Dill
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#BlackInSchool by Habiba Cooper Diallo
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For more of our themed Reading Recommendations curated by the editors of Quill & Quire: