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• Autobiography/Memoir

• Biography

• Nonfiction

• Poetry

• Fiction

  • Children's

  • Young Adult

  • Romance

  • Science-Fiction

A

• Alpha Females Unleashed: From the Boardroom to the Bedroom (C.C. Lyons)

• Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor)

• Americana (Chimamanda Adiche)

• An American Marriage* (Tayari Jones)

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

B

• Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)

• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Zora Neale Hurston)

• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

• Binti * (Nnedi Okorafor)

• Binti: Home (Nnedi Okorafor)

• Binti: The Night Masquerade (Nnedi Okorafor)

• Booked (Kwame Alexander)

C

• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) (Tomi Adeyemi)

• The Color Purple * (Alice Walker)

• Courage Is Contagious (ed. Nicholas Haramis) (Note: this is not a Black author but this collection of essays features Black authors, artists, and entertainers.)

• Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Derrick Barnes)

D

• Death By Comb (Camari Carter)

E

• Earth Mother (Ellen Jackson)

• Ellington Was Not a Street (Ntozake Shange)

• Every Body Yoga (Jessamyn Stanley)

F

• Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird (Misty Copeland)

G

• Garvey's Choice (Nikki Grimes)

• Gods and Shadows (Jayde Brooks)

H

• Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L. Tharps)

• The Hate U Give * (Angie Thomas)

• Hey Back Child (Useni Eugene Perkins)

• Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)

• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Roxane Gay)

I

• I Got the Rhythm (Connie Schofield-Morrison)

• Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching: A Black Man's Education (Mychal Denzel Smith)

• In Your Hands (Carole Boston Weatherford)

J

K

• Kindred (Octavia E. Butler)

• Kindred Graphic Novel (Octavia E. Butler story, )

• Kings of Earth (Joe Ponder)

L

• Let's Talk About Race (Julius Lester)

• The Life and Times of Joseph E. Clark: From Slavery to Town Father (Olga Fenton Mitchell)

• Life Comes From Concrete (Kevin Anglade)

M

• Meet Addy (Connie Rose Porter)

N

• Nandi's Unexpected Gift (Ama Kuma)

• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Randal Kennedy)

O

P

• Parable of the Sower (Octavia E. Butler)

• Parable of the Talents (Octavia E. Butler)

Q

R

• Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin)

S

• Sail Away (Langston Hughes/Ashley Bryan)

• Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story (Angela Shelf Medearis)

• She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love & Dating (Aryka Randall)

• The Skin I'm In (Sharon G. Flake)

• So You Want To Talk About Race* (Ijeoma Oluo)

• The Story of Us (Hanna Ali)

T

• Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (Warsaw Shire)

• The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Vaunda Micheaux Nelson)

• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Morgan Parker)

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jenkins)

• The Three Witches (Zora Neale Hurston)

• Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale (Angela Shelf Medearis)

U

• Underground (Shane W. Evans)

V

• Voices of Black America (Lighthouse, Ed.)

W

• We Had A Picnic This Sunday Past ( Jacqueline Woodson)

• We Should All Be Feminist (Chimamanda Adiche)

• When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele)

• Wild Seed (Octavia Butler)

• Words With Wings (Nikki Grimes)

X

Y

• Year of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun, And Be Your Own Person (Shonda Rhimes)

Z

A

• Adiche, Chimamanda

  • Americana

  • We Should All Be Feminist

• Alexander, Kwame

  • Booked (YA)

• Ali, Hanna

  • The Story of Us

• Anglade, Kevin

  • Life Comes From Concrete

• Adeyemi, Tomi

  • Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

B

• Bandele, Asha

  • When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Co-Author)

• Barnes, Derrick

  • Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

• Butler, Octavia E.

  • Kindred *

  • Kindred (Graphic Novel)

  • Parable of the Sower

  • Parable of the Talents

  • Wild Seed

• Bryan, Ashley

  • Sail Away (Illustrator)

• Byrd, Ayana D.

  • Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (co-author)

C

• Carter, Camari

  • Death By Comb

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

  • Between the World and Me

• Copeland, Misty

  • Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird

D

E

• Evans, Shane W.

  • Underground:Finding the Light to Freedom

F

• Flake, Sharon G.

  • The Skin I'm In

• Fulton, Sybrina

  • Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (co-author)

G

• Gay, Roxane

  • Bad Feminist

  • Hunger

• Grimes, Nikki

  • Garvey's Choice

  • Words With Wings

H

• Haramis, Nicholas

  • Courage Is Contagious (ed. ) (Note: this is not a Black author but this collection of essays features Black authors, artists, and entertainers.)

• Hughes, Langston

  • Sail Away

• Hurston, Zora Neale

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

I

J

• Jenkins, Morgan

  • This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

• Jones, Tayari

  • An American Marriage*

K

• Kennedy, Randall

  • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

• Khan-Cullors, Patrisse

  • When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Co-Author)

• Kuma, Ama

  • Nandi's Unexpected Gift

L

• Lester, Julius

  • Let's Talk About Race

• Lighthouse (Ed.)

  • Voices of Black America

• Lyons, C.C.

  • Alpha Females Unleashed: From the Boardroom to the Bedroom

M

• Martin, Tracy

  • Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin (co-author)

• Medearis, Angela Shelf

  • Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanza Story

  • Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale

N

• Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

  • The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

O

• Okorafor, Nnedi

  • Akata Witch (YA)

  • Binti *

  • Home (Binti #2) *

  • The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)

• Oluo, Ijeoma

  • So You Want To Talk About Race*

P

• Parker, Morgan

  • There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

• Perkins, Useni Eugene

  • Hey Black Child

• Ponder, Joe

  • Kings of Earth

• Porter, Connie Rose

  • Meet Addy

Q

R

• Randall, Aryka

  • She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love & Dating

• Rhimes, Shonda

  • Year of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun, And Be Your Own Person

S

• Shange, Ntozake

  • Ellington Was Not a Street

• Shire, Warsaw

  • Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

• Smith, Mychal Denzel

  • Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching: A Black Man's Education

• Stanley, Jessamyn

  • Every Body Yoga

T

• Tharps, Lori L.

  • Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (co-author)

• Thomas, Angie

  • The Hate U Give * (YA)

• Tyson, Neil deGrasse

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

U

V

W

• Walker, Alice

  • The Color Purple *

• Weatherford, Carole Boston

  • In Your Hands

• Woodson, Jacqueline

  • We Had A Picnic This Sunday Past

X

Y

Z