Books On My Summer Reading List, 2022

The following are books I plan to read this summer:

1. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick (Holt, 2022).

2. Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy V. Ferguson by Blair Murphy Kelley (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

3. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips (Soho Press, 2022). (Historical crime fiction.)

4. Last Call: True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (Celadon Books, 2021).

5. Greenland: A Novel by David Santos Donaldson (HarperCollins, 2022).

6. Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Princeton University Press, 2022).

7. Harlem Sunset by Nekesa Afia (Penguin, 2022). (Crime fiction set during the Harlem Renaissance.)

8. Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem by Kevin McGruder (Columbia University Press, 2021). (A biography of the early twentieth-century black real estate mogul.)