These are the books I hope to read from cover to cover this year:
1. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (Morrow, 2016).
2. Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem by Kevin McGruder (Columbia University Press, 2021).
3. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions by Francesca T. Royster (University of Texas Press, 2022).
4. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham (Random House, 2022).
5. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
6. The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen (Birch Lane Books, 1995).
7. The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-Up Call by Carl T. Rowan (Little, Brown, 1996).
8. Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America by Kevin Cook (Norton, 2014).
9. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann (HarperCollins, 2014).
10. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (Celadon Books, 2021).
11. Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, 2021).
12. The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (Anchor Books/Penguin Random House, 2021, paperback; originally published by Doubleday, 2016).
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