This week is #BlackoutBestsellersList. We are asked to buy two books by Black writers this week, before June 20 to demonstrate #BlackPublishingPower.

Here are some books I recommend:

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Saidiya Hartman
• How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community, Mia Birdsong
• You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson
• A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
• All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, George M Johnson
• Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights, Mikki Kendall and A D'Amico
• Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
• Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
• How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones
• Here For It, R Eric Thomas
• The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C. Riley Snorton
• Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, Howard Bryant

Consider buying these books from your local Black-owned shop or Bookshop.org, which benefits indie bookstores!

Speaking of Books, I’ll Be on a Panel About One

Thursday night at 7 pm, join me for a conversation with Dave Zirin and Sasha Abramsky to discuss Abramsky’s forthcoming book, Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar. The panel is hosted by Silver Unicorn Books. Register here.