FAR AWAY FROM CLOSE TO HOME featured on Boston Public Library’s ‘Black Is…’ booklist for 2022
The Boston Public Library kicked off its celebration of Black History Month this week with the release of its annual “Black Is…” booklist, selected by library staff. This year’s list features 70 titles published in 2021 which range across genres, from poetry to young adult fiction to memoirs.
Check out the nonfiction list below, featuring Vanessa Baden Kelly’s FAR AWAY FROM CLOSE TO HOME, along with authors like Charles M. Blow, Akwaeke Emezi, Ibram X. Kendi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and a ton of other names we are so honored to be featured alongside.
Nonfiction
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- “Professional Troublemaker” by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- “Far Away From Close to Home” by Vanessa Baden Kelly
- “The Devil You Know” by Charles M. Blow
- “I Have Always Been Me” by Precious Brady-Davis
- “Punch Me Up to the Gods” by Brian Broome
- “Unbound” by Tarana Burke
- “Dear Senthuran” by Akwaeke Emezi
- “On Juneteenth” by Annette Gordon-Reed
- “The Motherlode” by Clover Hope
- “Four Hundred Souls” edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- “This Is the Fire” by Don Lemon
- “The Black Church” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- “The Three Mothers” by Anna Malaika Tubbs
- “All That She Carried” by Tiya Miles
- “Black Smoke” by Adrian Miller
- “Notes on Grief” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Buses Are a Comin’” by Charles Person
- “Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend” by Ben Philippe
- “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey” by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
- “Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ” by Rodney Scott
- “Mouths of Rain” edited by Briona Simone Jones
- “Bevelations” by Bevy Smith
- “In Search of The Color Purple” by Salamishah Tillet
- “Rice” by Michael Twitty
- “Just as I Am” by Cicely Tyson
- “Take Back What the Devil Stole” by Onaje X. O. Woodbine