Staff Picks

Book Titles Recommended by LAMP Staff

Adult

  • Cover for “All the White Spaces: A Novel”

    All the White Spaces: A Novel

    by Ally Wilkes
    Fiction, Horror Fiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “No Gods for Drowning”

    No Gods for Drowning

    by Hailey Piper
    Fantasy, Fiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “The Shards”

    The Shards

    by Bret Easton Ellis
    Fiction, Suspense | Audio
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  • Cover for “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture”

    Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

    by Alice Echols
    African American Topics, Nonfiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures”

    How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

    by Sabrina Imbler
    Nature and the Environment, Nonfiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century”

    Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century

    by Jasmine Brown
    African American Topics, Nonfiction | Audio
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(Book 1 of 6)

Teens

  • Cover for “A Quantum Life”

    A Quantum Life

    by Hakeem Oluseyi
    Nonfiction, Science and Technology | Audio
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  • Cover for “The Unboxing of a Black Girl”

    The Unboxing of a Black Girl

    by Angela Shanté
    Nonfiction, Poetry | Audio
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  • Cover for “American Wings: Chicago’s pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky”

    American Wings: Chicago’s pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky

    by Sherri Smith
    Nonfiction, U.S. History | Audio
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  • Cover for “Forgive Me Not”

    Forgive Me Not

    by Jennifer Baker
    Family, Fiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “Tangleroot”

    Tangleroot

    by Kalela Williams
    Fiction, Mystery and Detective | Audio
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  • Cover for “Twenty-four seconds from now: a love story”

    Twenty-four seconds from now: a love story

    by Jason Reynolds
    Fiction, Romance | Audio
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(Book 1 of 6)

Children

  • Cover for “Young, Gifted and Black Too”

    Young, Gifted and Black Too

    by Jamia Wilson
    Biography, Nonfiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “Swim Team”

    Swim Team

    by Johnnie Christmas
    Fiction, School Stories | Audio
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  • Cover for “Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington”

    Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington

    by Michael Long
    Government and Politics, Nonfiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “For Our Daughters”

    For Our Daughters

    by Mel Nyoko
    African American topics, Fiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “We Could Fly”

    We Could Fly

    by Rhiannon Giddens
    Fiction, Historical Fiction | Audio
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  • Cover for “Something, Someday”

    Something, Someday

    by Amanda Gorman
    Fiction, Fiction | Audio
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(Book 1 of 6)