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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah
Als, Hilton. White Girls.
Asante, MK. Buck: A Memoir.
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Light of the World: A Memoir.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time.
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son.
Baldwin, James. Collected Essays
Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism.
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison.
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Felon: Poems.
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Blow, Charles. Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63.
Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House: A Memoir
Brown, Jericho. The Tradition.
Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower.
Butler, Octavia. Kindred.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Beautiful Struggle.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer.
Clifton, Lucille. Mercy.
Danticat, Edwidge. The Art of Death.
Datcher, Michael. Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story.
DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Malcolm: the Myth & Meaning of Malcolm X.
Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth.
Gates, Henry Louis. Colored People: A Memoir.
Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights: Essays.
Gay, Ross. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
Glaude, Jr., Eddie S. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Time.
Goffman, Alice. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.
Goss, Linda and Barnes, Marian, Eds. Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling.
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me.
Haley, Alex and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Hooks, Bell. Ain't I A Woman
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.
Jones, Saeed. How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist.
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
Kotlowitz, Alex. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.
Laymon, Kiese. Heavy.
Lester, Julius. Lovesong: Becoming a Jew.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider.
Masters, Jarvis Jay. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row.
McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Mendez, Paul. Rainbow Milk.
Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.
Morrison, Toni. Everything she wrote.
Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Obama, Michelle. Becoming.
Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race
Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Petry, Ann. The Street.
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric.
Smith, Zadie. Swing Time
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth.
Staples, Brent. Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
Tarpley, Natasha. Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity.
Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Toure. Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to be Black Now.
Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Walker, Rebecca. Black, White & Jewish
Ward, Jesmyn. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race.
Ward, Jesmyn. Men We Reaped: A Memoir.
Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing.
Wideman, John Edgar. Brothers and Keepers.
Wideman, John Edgar. Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File.
Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel
Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys: A Novel
Wilson, Chris. The Master Plan: My Journey From Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose.
Woodfox, Albert. Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
Young, Damon. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
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