Zora Neale Hurston biographer and editor Valerie Boyd’s Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (November 2022) explores comfort and compromise throughout the intersecting pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism, inviting readers into a conversation of restorative joy and enduring wisdom. This accompanying list of books from contributors to the anthology expands the conversation around the diversity and joyous resilience of Black lives. From E. Ethelbert Miller’s poems that probe a history and love for baseball to Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s award-winning W.E.B. Du Bios-infused exploration of ancestral identity and beyond, this list showcases the past, present, and future of the Black experience.