BLACK-OWNED BOOKSTORES TO BUY FROM
Brave and Kind Books (Decatur, GA) braveandkindbooks.com
Semicolon (Chicago, IL) semicolonchi.com
Brain Lair Books (South Bend, IN) brainlairbooks.com
Afriware Books (Maywood, IL) afriwarebooks.com
Detroit Book City (Detroit, MI) detroitbookcity.com
Mahogany Books (Washington, DC) mahoganybooks.com
Hakim’s Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA) hakimsbookstore.com
Harriott’s Bookshop (Philadelphia, PA) harriettsbookshop.com
Ashay By the Bay (Vallejo, CA ) ashaybythebay.com
Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA) esowonbookstore.com
The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY) thelitbar.com
Cafe con libros (Brooklyn, NY) cafeconlibrosbk.com
Frugal Bookstore (Roxbury, MA) frugalbookstore.net
Phoebe
June 14, 2020 at 7:04 pmYou led this post to talk about how true change can happen, linked us to Oprah’s book list, and kindly listed some black owned bookshops. But there aren’t any black authors on your own June list. Did you consider searching out what black authors have books coming out this month, and highlight them, with their covers and your description as prominently as you have the rest of the authors on your list? If you aren’t aware, here’s just one list of a few books coming out in June and July by black authors: https://aalbc.com/books/comingsoon.php.
Linda Gordon
July 22, 2020 at 12:14 pmI would recommend Such a Fun Age, an excellent debut novel by Kiley Reid.
Lee Woodruff
July 23, 2020 at 5:35 pmPhoebe I know I replied to you privately as the comments were not connected for a while and i wanted to thank you for this. I will seek to do a better job to include ever more voices and stories in my blog. And thank you for this list! Sharing about books is one of the joys of life. thanks for reading.