To support the continued celebration of Black excellence, we’ve put together a broad list of books and resources to keep Black voices at the centre of our conversations and learning well-beyond Black History Month in February.
If you’re looking for Black voices in your research, contact UTSC liaison librarians to help search and locate relevant sources.
Fiction
Popular/Literary
- Subterrane: a novel by Valérie Bah (Canadian)
- The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (Canadian)
- Dream Count: a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The World So Wide by Zilla Jones (Canadian)
Short Stories
- Perfect Little Angels: stories by Vincent Anioke (Canadian)
Poetry
- The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas (Canadian)
- Scientific Marvel: poems by Chimwemwe Undi (Canadian)
- Building a Nest from the Bones of My People by Cara-Lyn Morgan (Canadian)
Science Fiction & Afrofuturism
- The Memory Librarian: and other stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (also available as an audiobook)
- Dark Matter: reading the bones by Sheree R. Thomas
- Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase (audiobook)
Graphic Novels
- Black Punk Now: fiction, non-fiction and comics edited by Chris L. Terry and James Spooner
- Parable of the Sower adaptation of Octavia E. Butler novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
- Now Let Me Fly: a portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly
Non-fiction
Memoir/Autobiography
- Unlike the Rest: a doctor's story by Chika Stacy Oriuwa
- Black Boys Like Me: confrontations with race, identify, and belonging by Matthew R. Morris (Canadian)
- Assata: an autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Fearless and Free: a memoir by Josephine Baker
General Non-Fiction and Canadian History
- Black in Blues: how a color tells the story of my people by Imani Perry
- A History of the World in Six Plagues: how contagion, class, and captivity shaped us, from cholera to COVID-19 by Edna Bonhomme
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement by Angela Davis
Cookbooks
- Recipes from the American South by Michael W. Twitty
- Ghana to the World: recipes and stories that look forward while honoring the past by Eric Adjepong
- American Soul: the Black history of food in the United States by Anela Malik
- Kin: Caribbean recipes for the modern kitchen by Marie Mitchell
Film/Documentary
- ReXistence by Will Prosper (Canadian)
- King's Court by Serville Poblete (Canadian)
- Koromousso: big sister by Habibata Ouarme & Jim Donovan (Canadian)
Related Resources
Anti-Black racism reading list from U of T Libraries
Last updated January 2026