The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis
Kindred by Octavia Butler suggested by Dr. Crump
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi suggested by Dr. Crump
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones suggested by Dr. Crump
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie suggested by Dr. Crump
Angola Janga by Marcelo d'Salete
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward suggested by Dr. Crump
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead suggested by Dr. Crump
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson suggested by Dr. Crump
The Tradition by Jericho Brown (Pulitzer Prize winner)
The January Children by Safia Elhillo (Arab American Book Award winner)
1919 by Eve Ewing (local author)
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing (local author)
Finna by Nate Marshall (local author)
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
From Here to Equality by William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen
Reclaiming Our Space by Feminista Jones
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery & Duchess Harris
Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (local author)
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
Afro-Latino Voices edited & compiled by Kathryn Joy McKnight & Leo Garofalo
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner) suggested by Dr. Crump
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxanne Gay suggested by Dr. Crump
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
A Promised Land by Barack Obama suggested by Dr. Crump
Becoming by Michelle Obama suggested by Dr. Crump
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender (National Book Award for Young People winner, 2020)
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Newbery Medal & Coretta Scott King Award)
Nikki & Deja by Karen English with illustrations by Laura Freeman
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Coretta Scott King Award; a Rick Riordan Presents book)
Sadiq and the Desert Star by Siman Nuurali & Anjan Sarkar
Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson with illustrations by Nina Mata
