books
NONFICTION
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights by Robert J. Patterson
GIRL: Essays on Black Womanhood by Kenya Hunt
Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore by Ben Green
The African-American Century: How African Americans Have Shaped Our Country by Henry Gates Jr.
Life in Black America By James S. Jackson
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America by David Levering Lewis
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart
Is Marriage for White People? By Ralph Richard Banks
Everything and Nothing At Once by Joel Leon
Ain’t Never Not Been Black by Javon Johnson
The Invisible Ache by Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin L. Smith
Gumbo for the Black Woman’s Soul by Leanne Dolce
White Negroes by Lauren Michelle Jackson
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
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RELIGION
Before You Climb Any Higher: Valley Wisdom from Mountain Dreams by Jonathan McReynolds
When God Speaks by Joshua Giles
A Cloud of Women by Georgia Hill & Diane Proctor Reeder
The Making of a Man by Tim Brown
Just Jesus: Who He Is And What That Means To You by Pace Fordhum
Living As An Overcomer by Tony Evans
Get Unrealistic by Pastor Debleaire Snell
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BIOGRAPHY
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock
Ain’t But A Few Of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Stories by Willard Jenkins
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HISTORICAL FICTION
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
We Were Girls Once by Aiwanose Odafen
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
My Name is Ona Judge by Suzette D. Harrison
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher
The Mayor of Maxell Street by Avery Cunningham
Redwood Court by DeLana R.A. Dameron
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
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FICTION
Glory Be by Danielle Archeneaux
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
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ROMANCE
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
By The Book by Jasmine Guillory
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan
Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen
The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton
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THRILLER + MYSTERY
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
We’ll Never Tell by Kayla Perrin
Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
While We Burning by Sara Koffi
Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
Not What She Wants by Yasmin Angoe
SCI-FI + FANTASY
The Last One by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
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YOUNG
ADULT
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Bones at the Root by Ladarrion Williams
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
The Black Girl Survives In This One by Desirre Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell
Wander In The Dark by Jumata Emil
Tender Breast by Liselle Sambury
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
KIDS
Mae Among The Stars by Roda Ahmed
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harris
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harris
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Don’t Touch My Hair! By Sharee Miller
Crown: Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena
We Are Here (Because You Matter) by Tami Charles
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Baby Goes to the Market by Atinuke