As you probably know, February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor that, MonsterLibrarian.com brings you a message from Zombie Michele Lee announcing a project she’ll be spearheading this month. We hope you’ll participate!
Hi, this is Zombie Michele with a special announcement. In honor of Black History Month I’ll be hosting Monster Librarian’s first (online) African American Read In and you are enthusiastically invited to join in!
How to join: February 6th, 7th & 8th join us online on Twitter ( we’ll be using the hashtag #MLAAReadIn), on Facebook or here at Musings of the Monster Librarian.
All you have to do is read a book (or two or a dozen) written by an African American writer (stay tuned for a list, if you don’t know where to start) and tell me on those sites, or email me at zombiemicheleATgmailDOTcom (with spam guards removed) what book you’re reading. We’d love to hear what you think of it as well, but all we require for reporting is which books were read.
I picked a three day scope so that you have plenty of time to join in. There is no minimum number of books you have to read. There is no genre you have to stick to (though being a speculative fiction site we’ll be focusing on science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery and romance authors). Read as little or as much as you like of what you like!
I’ll do all the heavy lifting (aka, filling out the reports to make this event official). You just have to read!
To help you out, Zombie Michele has hunted down some booklists of reading material you can use to get started below:
YA/Adult List from the event site- http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Involved/Action/AARI/Young_Adults_Adults.pdf
Young Children’s List from the event site- http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Involved/Action/AARI/Young_Children.pdf
A book list from the Cincinnati Library– http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/booklists/?id=africanamericanwriters
And our own (not exhaustive) list of African American speculative fiction books. Many of these books are available digitally, so even if you’re a last minute joiner there’s no problem. Just download a book and jump in!
N.K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1)
The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #2)
The Kingdom of the Gods (Inheritance Trilogy #3)
David Anthony Durham
Acadia: The War with the Mein (Acadia #1)
The Other Lands (Acadia #2)
The Sacred Band (Acadia #3)
Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower
Kindred
Fledgling
Dawn (Xenogenisis #1)
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis #2)
Imago (Xenogenesis #3)
Lilith’s Brood
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Seed to Harvest
Mind of My Mind
Clay’s Ark
Bloodchild and other Stories
Patternmaster
Survivor
Samuel R. Delany
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Babel-17
Tales of Neveryon
Dhalgren
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Trouble on Triton
Nova
The Einstein Intersection
Hogg: A Novel
Atlantis: Three Tales
Dark Reflections
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
Return to Neveryon
Flight from Neveryon
The Fall of the Towers
Distant Stars
The Jewels of Aptor
The Ballad of Beta 2
City of a Thousand Suns
The Mad Man
Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York
They Fly At Ciron
Steve Barnes
The Cestus Deception (Star Wars: Clone Wars novel)
Beowulf’s children
Great Sky Woman: A Novel
Dream Park
The Barsoom Project
Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
Shadow Valley
Zulu Heart
Charisma
Lion’s Blood
Far Beyond the Stars (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
Saturn’s Race
The Kundalini Equation
The Decent of the Anansi
Firedance
Assassin and other stories
Gorgon Child
Iron Shadows
Tananarive Due
My Soul to Take
The Good House
Blood Colony
My Soul to Keep
The Between
The Living Blood
Joplin’s Ghost
L.A. Banks
Shadow Walker (Neteru Academy)
Finders Keepers (Dark Avengers)
Loser’s Weepers (Dark Advengers)
Death’s Excellent Vacation (contributor)
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (contributor)
Love at First Bite (contributor)
Minion (Vampire Huntress)
Stroke of Midnight
The Thirteenth (Vampire huntress)
Vegas Bites (contributor)
The Awakening (Vampire Huntress)
The Wicked (Vampire Huntress)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress)
The Forsaken (Vampire huntress)
The Ancestors
Bad Blood (Crimson Moon #1)
Bite the Bullet (Crimson Moon #2)
Undead on Arrival (Crimson Moon #3)
Cursed to Death (Crimson Moon #4)
Never Cry Werewolf (Crimson Moon)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress)
The Darkness (Vampire Huntress)
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress)
The Cursed (Vampire Huntress)
The Damned (Vampire Huntress)
The Shadows (Vampire Huntress)
L.A. Banks’ Vampire Huntress: Dawn and Darkness
L.A. Banks’ Vampire Huntress: The Hidden Darkness
Creepin’
Minion
Voices from the Other Side: Dark Dreams II (Contributor)
Timothy N. Stelly, Sr
Human Trial
Human Trial II: Adam’s War
Brandon Massey
Covenant
Don’t Ever Tell
The Ancestors
The Other Brother
Vicious
Cornered
Thunderland
Dark Dreams (contributor)
Voices From the Other Side: Dark Dreams II (contributor)
Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III (contributor)
Within the Shadows
Dark Corner
Twisted Tales
L.R. Giles
The Darkness Kept
The Serpent and the Stallion
Live Again
Trick Shot (a short story)
Lover’s Spat (a short story)
The Track (a short story)
Doc Damage’s Very Bad Day (a short story)
Southern Hospitality (a short story)
Wilson’s Pawn & Loan (a short story)
Power and Purpose (a short story)
The Shadows Gallery
Walter Mosley
All I Did was Shoot My Man
When the Thrill is Gone
The Long Fall
Known to Evil
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Devil in a Blue Dress
Stories: All-New Tales
Killin Jihnny Fry
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Little Scarlet
White Butterfly
Blonde Faith
Black Betty
Cinnamon Kiss
A Red Death
47
A Little Yellow Dog
Six Easy Pieces
Diablerie
The Man in My Basement
Fearless Jones
The Tempest Tales
Fear Itself
Fortunate Son
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Walkin’ the Dog
R L’s Dream
Gone Fishin’
Blue Light
The Wave
Manhattan Karma
Charles Saunders
Imaro
Imora II: The Quest for Cush
The Trail of Buhu (Imaro III)
R.A. Baker
Rayna of Nightwind (Taren)
Nalo Hopkinson
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
Midnight Robber
The Salt Roads
Brown Girl in the Ring
The New Moon’s Arms
Skin Folk
The Chaos
Mojo: Conjure Stories
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
Chesya Burke
Dark Faith (contributor)
Let’s Play White
Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III (contributor)
Voices From the Other Side: Dark Dreams II (contributor)
Dark Dreams (contributor)
Maurice Broaddus
Beauty Has Her Way
Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopian SF (contributor)
Dark Faith (editor)
Orgy of Souls
King Maker (Knights of Breton Court #1)
King’s Justice (Knights of Breton Court #2)
King’s War (Knights of Breton Court #3)
Apexology: Science Fiction and Fantasy (contributor)
Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III (contributor)
Harlan County Horrors (contributor)
Devil’s Marionette
Wrath James White
Succulent Prey
The Resurrectionist
Population Zero
The Book of a Thousand Sins
Yaccub’s Curse
John M. Faucette
Crown of Infinity
Siege of Earth
The Warriors of Terra
The Age of Ruin
Linda Addison
Animated Objects
Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial
How to Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend
Kevin Grevioux
New Warriors (Marvel Comics)
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
DevaShard: at first light
Andrea Hairston
Mindscape
Redwood and Wildfire
Nisi Shawl
Sheree Thomas
Anansi
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (editor)
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (editor)
Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death
Zahrah the Windseeker (YA)
The Shadow Speaker (YA)
Long Juju Man (YA)
Akata Witch (YA)
Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine (YA)
Seressia Glass
Vegas Bites (contributor)
Shadow Blade
Shadow Fall
Shadow Chase
Dream of Shadows
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