It is our goal at Skidompha to provide you with access to a diverse collection of materials to borrow.
We were grateful to receive a generous anonymous donation to support the purchase of literature by Black authors for our collection. Below is the list of books purchased so far with this funding. We hope you will order these titles from Skidompha through curbside pickup!
| Title | Author | ISBN | Category |
| Kindred | Butler, Octavia | 978-0807083109 | Fiction |
| Queenie | Carty-Williams, Candice | 9781501196010 | Fiction |
| What we lose | Clemmons, Zinzi | 978-0735221710 | Fiction |
| The Water Dancer | Coates, Ta-Nehisi | 978-0399590597 | Fiction |
| Halsey Street | Coster, Naima | 978-1503941175 | Fiction |
| This mournable body | Dangarembga, Tsitsi | 978-1555978129 | Fiction |
| Freshwater | Emezi, Akwaeke | 978-0802127358 | Fiction |
| Travelers | Habila, Helon | 9780393239591 | Fiction |
| Not without laughter | Hughes, Langston | 978-1121880627 | Fiction |
| Silver Sparrow | Jones, Tayari | 978-1565129900 | Fiction |
| An American Marriage | Jones, Tayari | 978-1616208776 | Fiction |
| Who fears death | Okorafor, Nnedi | 978-0756406172 | Fiction |
| Boy, snow, bird | Oyeyemi, Helen | 978-1594631399 | Fiction |
| Mumbo Jumbo | Reed, Ishmael | 978-0241305812 | Fiction |
| Ghost | Reynolds, Jason | 978-1481450164 | Fiction |
| Salvage the bones | Ward, Jesmyn | 978-1608195220 | Fiction |
| The Nickel Boys | Whitehead, Colson | 978-0385537070 | Fiction |
| Another Brooklyn | Woodson, Jacqueline | 978-0062359995 | Fiction |
| Red at the Bone | Woodson, Jacqueline | 978-0525535270 | Fiction |
| Notes from a black woman’s diary | Collins, Kathleen | 978-0062800954 | Fiction |
| Friday Black | Adjel-Brenyah, Nana Kwame | 978-1328911247 | Fiction |
| What it means when a man falls from the sky | Arimah, Lesley Nneka | 978-0735211025 | Fiction |
| The Undefeated | Alexander, Kwame | 9781328780966 | Kids |
| Dragons in a Bag | Elliott, Zetta | 9780525636090 | Kids |
| Antiracist Baby | Kendi, Ibram X | 978-0593110416 | Kids |
| I am Farmer: Growing an environmental movement in Cameroon | Paul, Baptiste and Miranda | 9781512449143 | Kids |
| Lu | Reynolds, Jason | 978-1481450249 | Kids |
| Patina | Reynolds, Jason | 978-1481450195 | Kids |
| Sunny | Reynolds, Jason | 978-1481450218 | Kids |
| Just South of Home | Strong, Karen | 9781534419384 | Kids |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | Woodson, Jacqueline | 9780147515827 | Kids |
| Harbor Me – audiobook | Woodson, Jacqueline | 9780525639107 | Kids |
| Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | 978-1524733131 | Nonfiction |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness | Alexander, Michelle | 978-1595581037 | Nonfiction |
| Fire shut up in my bones | Blow, Charles M. | 978-0544228047 | Nonfiction |
| Between the World and Me | Coates, Ta Nehisi | 978-0812993547 | Nonfiction |
| Eloquent Rage: a black feminist discovers her superpower | Cooper, Brittney | 978-1250112576 | Nonfiction |
| Collected Poems: 1974 – 2004 | Dove, Rita | 978-0393354935 | Nonfiction |
| Difficult Women | Gay, Roxane | 978-0802125392 | Nonfiction |
| Out of the house of bondage: the transformation of the plantation household | Glymph, Thavolia | 978-0521703987 | Nonfiction |
| The Last Black unicorn | Haddish, Tiffany | 978-1501181825 | Nonfiction |
| The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative Of Black Women In America | Harris, Tamara Winfrey | 978-1626563513 | Nonfiction |
| Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo | Hurston, Zora Neale | 978-0062748201 | Nonfiction |
| Call me American | Iftin, Abdi Nor | 978-1524732196 | Nonfiction |
| How to be an Antiracist | Kendi, Ibram X | 9780525509288 | Nonfiction |
| Stamped from the Beginning | Kendi, Ibram X | 978-1568585987 | Nonfiction |
| When they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir | Khan-Cullors, Patrisse | 978-1250171085 | Nonfiction |
| Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. | King, Martin Luther Jr. | 978-0446676502 | Nonfiction |
| Heavy: a memoir | Laymon, Kiese | 978-1501125652 | Nonfiction |
| The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | Lorde, Audre | 978-0393319729 | Nonfiction |
| They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement | Lowery, Wesley | 978-0316312479 | Nonfiction |
| So you want to talk about race | Oluo, Ijeoma | 978-1580056779 | Nonfiction |
| Notes from a Young Black Chef | Onwuachi, Kwame | 99781524732622 | Nonfiction |
| Farming while black | Penniman, Leah | 978-1603587617 | Nonfiction |
| So close to being the sh*t, ya’ll don’t even know | Retta | 978-1250109347 | Nonfiction |
| You Can’t Touch my Hair: And Other Things I Still Have To Explain | Robinson, Phoebe | 978-0143129202 | Nonfiction |
| Hidden Figures | Shetterly, Margot | 978-0062363596 | Nonfiction |
| Feel free | Smith, Zadie | 978-1594206252 | Nonfiction |
| In search of our mother’s gardens: womanist prose | Walker, Alice | 978-0156028646 | Nonfiction |
| My larger education: chapters from my expirience | Washington, Booker t. | 978-1604591972 | Nonfiction |
| The autobiography of Malcom X | X, Malcom | 978-0345350688 | Nonfiction |
| With the fire on high | Acevedo, Elizabeth | 978-0062662835 | Young Adult |
| The Poet X | Acevedo, Elizabeth | 978-0062662804 | Young Adult |
| Children of Virtue and Vengeance | Adeyemi, Tomi | 978-1250170996 | Young Adult |
| Kings, Queens and In-Betweens | Boteju, Tanya | 9781534430655 | Young Adult |
| A place for wolves | Jackson, Kosoko | 9781492673651 | Young Adult |
| She Would Be King | Moore, Wayetu | 978-1555978177 | Young Adult |
| Akata Warrior | Okorafor, Nnedi | 978-0670785612 | Young Adult |
| Akata Witch | Okorafor, Nnedi | 978-0670011964 | Young Adult |
| The Dark Fantastic | Thomas, Elizabeth Ebony | 978-1479800650 | Young Adult |