Black History Month Reading List


Black History Month Reading List

The Carl Brandon Society recommends the following books, compiled form suggestions on the Carl Brandon Society list-serve, for Black History Month:

  • So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehandir
     
  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
     
  • Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
     
  • My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
     
  • The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
     
  • Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
     
  • Wind Follower by Carole McDonnell
     
  • Futureland by Walter Mosley
     
  • The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
     
  • Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

And the 2005 CARL BRANDON SOCIETY AWARD Winners:

  • PARALLAX AWARD given to works of speculative fiction created by a person of color: 47 by Walter Mosley
     
  • KINDRED AWARD given to any work of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic group: Stormwitch by Susan Vaught