So you’ve seen Black Panther in theaters–are you looking for something to read that will keep you in Wakanda, or at least somewhere similar? Check out some of these! They’re all available either right here at Homewood Public Library, through our amazing library system, or as downloads from Hoopla or Media on Demand.
Black Panther: The Comics
T’Challa came on the page as the Black Panther in the 1960s. While Homewood Public Library doesn’t have physical copies of those original comic books, you’ll find them all on Hoopla. Prefer to read physical copies? You can do that, too–just request them!
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet sequence by Ta-Nehisi Coates et al
Looking for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther? You’re in luck: we have it here at Homewood! You can download the sequence from Hoopla (they have a terrific comics collection) or find it at YA GN COA
Looking for more Black Panther, including the newest story arcs? You can request Roxane Gay‘s Black Panther: World of Wakanda–or download it from Hoopla right now!
Interested in Nnedi Okorafor’s upcoming Black Panther sequence, Black Panther: Long Live the King? You can place a hold on the book now–or, once it is published, download it from Hoopla.
Octavia Butler
Check out pioneering science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s work and step into new worlds!
Clay’s Ark
Step into the dangerous creation of a new world in this tale of people infected by an alien life and their quest to remove themselves from society and prevent its spread…if they can. FIC BUTLER, O.
Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternmaster Series
Step into the transformation of the world in the complete series about the devastating rise to power of a secret race of telepaths. FIC BUTLER, O.
Looking for more? You may enjoy Butler’s time-travel novel, Kindred (FIC BUTLER, O.); you can also request more of her works from the system, or download them from Hoopla or Media on Demand!
Nalo Hopkinson
Sister Mine
In this tale of formerly conjoined twins, daughters of a god and a mortal woman, two young women must come to terms with their differing powers when their father is kidnapped. FIC HOPKINSON, N.
Check out Hopkinson’s other novels, including Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, and Midnight Robber, all available through the system–or as downloads!
N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
In a world that is continuously destroyed and recreated, a once-hidden goddess searches for her kidnapped daughter. All the books in the Broken Earth trilogy–The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky–are award-winners, and all can be found at FIC JEMISIN, N.
The Killing Moon
In the first book of the Dreamblood duology, a priest must protect the woman he was sent to kill–or see his city destroyed. You’ll find this at FIC JEMISIN, N.–and you can request the final book of the duology, The Shadowed Sun, from the system!
The Kingdom of Gods: Book III of The Inheritance Trilogy
The gods spent 2,000 years enslaved–but now they are free, and the city’s long-time rulers are slipping from power, and gods and rage–rage so intense it is feared even by those gods–are coming for the city. This is the final book in Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. You’ll find it shelved at PPB JEM. You can request The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the first book, and The Broken Kingdoms, the second, from the system!
Karen Lord
The Best of All Possible Worlds
In this tale of destruction and survival, proud, aloof aliens, homeless after their planet is destroyed, must seek help from other planets and other people while also preserving their culture. FIC LORD, K.
The Galaxy Game
A student in an intergalactic sports team travels through the galaxy, encountering all its strangeness and wonder. FIC LORD, K.
Redemption in Indigo
In this tale of gods and humans, Paama must contend with a rogue djombi’s anger when a group of djombi gift her with a tool with the power to shape the world. FIC LORD, K.
Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch
In this tale that has been called the “Nigerian Harry Potter,” 12-year-old Sunny discovers her magical powers when she moves back to Nigeria with her family–and then, with three new and similarly magical friends, must use them to stop a serial killer. The second book, Akata Warrior, is available now! YA FIC OKO
Binti: Home
In the second book of Okorafor’s award-winning Binti series, Binti and her friend Okwu are hailed as heroes for stopping an intergalatic war–but can they ever truly live in peace? FIC OKORAFOR, N.
You may also enjoy Okorafor’s Zahrah the Windseeker, available here at Homewood Public Library (J OKO), Binti, and Binti: The Night Masquerade, the third book of the Binti series.
The Book of Phoenix
In this prequel to Okorafor’s award-winning Who Fears Death (which has been optioned for an HBO series helmed by George R.R. Martin!), Phoenix is an accelerated woman, only two years old but with the mind and body of an adult. Now, after a terrible loss, she must escape into a world she does not know… FIC OKORAFOR, N.
Daniel José Older
Shadowshaper
Sierra is preparing for a normal summer when the murals she’s working on come to life, and she discovers that she–and her Puerto Rican family–are shadowshapers, thrusting her into a battle for her loved ones’ lives with an evil anthropologist in the first book in the Shadowshaper Cypher series. The second book, Shadowhouse Fall, is available now! YA FIC OLD
Nisi Shawl
Everfair
We all know the history of what happened in the Congo under Belgian occupation–but what if it had been different? Step into an alternate history where the people of the Congo have steam and more in this steampunk version of history! FIC SHAWL, N.
Want more? Willing to wait a couple days (or try downloading something from Media on Demand or Hoopla)? Check out Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist!
Truthiness
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
You’ve seen Black Panther, and read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther comics sequence–now check out some more of his writing! You’ll find this book at 305.8 COA
Black Power 50 edited by Sylvaine Diof & Komozi Woodward
The Black Panther comics began coming out in 1966–step into that pivotal year in the Black Power movement in this collection of essays, interviews, and photos. 323.1196 BLA
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
Learn about the history behind Marvel Comics–including Black Panther! 741.5 HOW
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
Curious about more women like the Dora Milaje? Check out this book! It’s a compendium of some of history’s greatest, wildest women–including Yennenga of Burkina Faso, the Dahomey Amazons, and more! You can check out the author’s website and find the book at YA 920.72 POR
Looking for more? You may enjoy Black Panther: The Official Movie Special, the official companion to the film, and Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, both available through our library system!
On the Shelves at Homewood Public Library 