A Booklist
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Fiction
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (and other titles)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Beloved by Toni Morrison (and other titles)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (and other titles)
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Chain-gang All-stars by Adjei Brenyah
James by Percival Everett
Poetry
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
African American Poetry 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Collected Poems by Rita Dove
Langston Hughes Everyman’s Pocket Poets
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou (and other titles)
Mummy Eaters by Sherry Shenoda
Art
David Driskell
Kerry James Marshall
Basquiat
Dustjackets for the Niggerati by Kara Walker
Biography/Memoir
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Culllors & Asha Bandele
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahesi Coates
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
Frederick Douglass Selected Writings by Library of America
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
How To Live Free In A Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson
Essays
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Nonfiction
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nahesi Coates
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
W.E.B. Dubois Selected Writings by Library of America
Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
Young Adult
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Infinite Hope by Ashley Bryan
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
Booked by Kwame Alexander
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Children’s Picture Books
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, And Me by Maya Angelou
Words To My Life’s Song by Ashley Bryan