Complete list of Black literature recommendations
| Book Title | Author | Year Published | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson Palestine And The Foundations Of A Movement | Angela Daivs | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Answering The Call: An Autobiography Of The Modern Struggle To End Racial Discrimination In America | Nathaniel R Jones | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest Intervention Reflection | Fernando Orejuela Stephanie Shonekan | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | 2010 | Non-Fiction |
| This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color | Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa | 1983 | Non-Fiction |
| The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race | Jesmyn Ward | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Fourth City: Essays From The Prison In America | Doran Larson | 2013 | Non-Fiction |
| The White Problem In America | the editors of Ebony | 1966 | Non-Fiction |
| Too Much Schooling Too Little Education: A Paradox Of Black Life In White Societies | Mwalimu J Shujaa | 1994 | Non-Fiction |
| Let Nobody Turn Us Around Voices Of Resistance Reform And Renewal: An African American Anthology | Manning Marable Leith Mullings | 2009 | Non-Fiction |
| Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? | Mumia Abu-Jamal | 2017 | Non-Fiction |
| We Want Freedom: A Life In The Black Panther Party | Mumia Abu-Jamal | 2004 | Non-Fiction |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1993 | Non-Fiction |
| Blindspot: Hidden Biases Of Good People | Mahzarin R Banaji | 2013 | Non-Fiction |
| How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?: Being Young And Arab In America | Moustafa Bayoumi | 2008 | Non-Fiction |
| A Black Women’s History Of The United States | Daina Ramey Berry | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| Antiracism, Inc. Why The Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters | Felice Blake | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness | Austin Channing Brown | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Strategies For Deconstructing Racism In The Health And Human Services | Alma Carten; Alan Siskind; Mary Pender Greene | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Between The World And Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | Non-Fiction |
| We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2017 | Non-Fiction |
| If They Come In The Morning; Voices Of Resistance | Angela Daivs | 1971 | Non-Fiction |
| Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Daivs | 2003 | Non-Fiction |
| White Fragility: Why It’S So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism | Robin J DiAngelo | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Skin Trade | Ann DuCille | 1996 | Non-Fiction |
| Bad Feminist: Essays | Roxane Gay | 2014 | Non-Fiction |
| Caught: The Prison State And The Lockdown Of American Politics | Marie Gottschalk | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin | Terrance Hayes | 2018 | Poetry |
| Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography | Zora Neale Hurston | 1984 | Non-Fiction |
| #Hashtagactivism: Networks Of Race And Gender Justice | Sarah J Jackson | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How To Wake Up Take Action And Do The Work | Tiffany Jewell; Aurelia Durand | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir | Saeed Jones | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot | Mikki Kendall | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America | Ibram X Kendi | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| How To Be An Antiracist | Ibram X Kendi | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches | Audre Lorde | 1984 | Non-Fiction |
| The Inner Work Of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves And Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness | Rhonda V Magee | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| Pushout: The Criminalization Of Black Girls In Schools | Monique W Morris | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| The Condemnation Of Blackness: Race Crime And The Making Of Modern Urban America | Khalil Gibran Muhammad | 2011 | Non-Fiction |
| African-Centered Pedagogy: Developing Schools Of Achievement For African American Children | Peter C Murrell | 2002 | Non-Fiction |
| Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood | Trevor Noah | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| So You Want To Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| An African American And Latinx History Of The United States | PaulOrtiz | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Young Gifted And Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students | Theresa Perry | 2003 | Non-Fiction |
| For Malcolm; Poetry On The Life And The Death Of Malcolm X | Dudley Randall | 1967 | Non-Fiction |
| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | 2014 | Non-Fiction |
| Engineering And Social Justice | Donna (Donna M) Riley | 2005 | Non-Fiction |
| Superior: The Return Of Race Science | Angela Saini | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities To Help You Challenge Privilege Confront Systemic Racism And Engage In Collective Healing | Anneliese A; Wise Tim; Wing Sue Derald Singh | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| Invisible Man Got The Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’S Education | Mychal Denzel Smith | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | 2014 | Non-Fiction |
| The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History In The Old South | Michael Twitty | 2017 | Non-Fiction |
| America’S Original Sin: Racism White Privilege And The Bridge To A New America | Jim Wallis | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| Men We Reaped: A Memoir | Jesmyn Ward | 2014 | Non-Fiction |
| The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’S Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson | 2010 | Non-Fiction |
| Malcolm X: The Last Speeches | Malcolm X | 1989 | Non-Fiction |
| The Autobiography Of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | 1965 | Non-Fiction |
| A People’S History Of The United States: 1492-Present | Howard Zinn | 2013 | Non-Fiction |
| Black Skin White Masks | Frantz Fanon | 1967 | Non-Fiction |
| Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory And Southern Identity | Patricia G (Patricia Gail)Davis | 2016 | Non-Fiction |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 1969 | Fiction |
| Fledgling: A Novel | Octavia E Butler | 2005 | Fiction |
| Kindred | Octavia E Butler | 2003 | Fiction |
| Parable Of The Sower | Octavia E Butler | 2012 | Fiction |
| Homegoing: A Novel | Yaa Gyasi | 2016 | Fiction |
| The Book Of Night Women | Marlon James | 2009 | Fiction |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 2007 | Fiction |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1993 | Fiction |
| The Underground Railroad: A Novel | Colson Whitehead | 2016 | Fiction |
| The Nickel Boys: A Novel | ColsonWhitehead | 2019 | Fiction |
| Red At The Bone | Jacqueline Woodson | 2019 | Fiction |
| Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | 2014 | Fiction |
| Sing Unburied Sing: A Novel | Jesmyn Ward | 2017 | Fiction |
| Breath Eyes Memory | Edwidge Danticat | 1994 | Fiction |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | 2004 | Fiction |
| Brown Girl In The Ring | Nalo Hopkinson | 1998 | Fiction |
| Lot: Stories | BryanWashington | 2019 | Fiction |
| Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa Gyasi | 2020 | Fiction |
| Stella By Starlight | Sharon M (Sharon Mills) Draper | 2015 | Young Adult |
| Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip M Hoose | 2009 | Young Adult |
| Monday’S Not Coming: A Novel | Tiffany D Jackson | 2018 | Young Adult |
| Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’S Guide To The Key Civil Rights Struggle Of Our Time | James Kilgore | 2015 | Young Adult |
| March: Book One | John Lewis | 2013 | Young Adult |
| March Book Two | John Lewis | 2015 | Young Adult |
| March Book Three | John Lewis | 2016 | Young Adult |
| The Silence Of Our Friends | Mark Long | 2012 | Young Adult |
| How It Went Down | Kekla Magoon | 2014 | Young Adult |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | 1999 | Young Adult |
| A Wreath For Emmett Till | Marilyn Nelson | 2005 | Young Adult |
| All American Boys | Jason Reynolds | 2015 | Young Adult |
| X: A Novel | Ilyasah Shabazz | 2015 | Young Adult |
| Dear Martin | Nic Stone | 2017 | Young Adult |
| Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred D Taylor | 1991 | Young Adult |
| On The Come Up | Angie Thomas | 2019 | Young Adult |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | 2017 | Young Adult |
| Piecing Me Together | ReneÃÅe Watson | 2017 | Young Adult |
| Hush | Jacqueline Woodson | 2002 | Young Adult |
| This Is My America | Kim Johnson | 2020 | Young Adult |
| Black Enough: Stories Of Being Young & Black In America | Zoboi Ibi | 2019 | Young Adult |
| The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | 2019 |
Children & Families
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| Knock Knock: My Dad’S Dream For Me | Daniel Beaty | 2013 |
Children & Families
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| Last Stop On Market Street | Matt De La Pena | 2015 |
Children & Families
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| Underground | Shane Evans | 2011 |
Children & Families
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| I Too Am America | Langston Hughes | 2012 |
Children & Families
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| The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | 1962 |
Children & Families
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| Freedom River | Doreen Rappaport | 2000 |
Children & Families
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| Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | 2017 |
Children & Families
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| I Love My Hair! | Natasha Tarpley | 1998 |
Children & Families
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| Freedom On The Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins | Carole Boston Weatherford | 2005 |
Children & Families
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| Genesis Begins Again | Alicia Williams | 2019 |
Children & Families
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| One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | 2010 |
Children & Families
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| Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson | 2012 |
Children & Families
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| Brown Girl Brownstones | Paule Marshall | 1981 |
Children & Families
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| Becoming | Michelle Obama | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| The Dead Are Arising: The Life Of Malcolm X | Payne and Tamara Payne Les | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| Before The Ever After | Jacqueline Woodson | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| When Stars Are Scattered | Jamieson and Omar Mohamed illustrated by Iman Geddy Victoria | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | 2020 | Fiction |
| Black Bottom Saints: A Novel | Alice Randall | 2020 | Fiction |
| The Talk: Conversations About Race Love & Truth | Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (editors) Wade | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism Change The World And Become A Good Ancestor | Layla F Saad | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| The Freedom Artist | Ben Okri | 2019 | Fiction |
| Finna: Poetry | Marshall Marshall Nate Nate | 2020 | Poetry |
| The Death Of Vivek Oji: A Novel | Akwaeke Emezi | 2020 | Fiction |
| Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle For The Ballot Box | DionneEvette | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| Such A Fun Age | ReidKiley | 2019 | Fiction |
| The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir | André Leon Talley | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| The Shadow King | Maaza Mengiste | 2019 | Fiction |
| I Am Every Good Thing | Barnes illlustrated by Gordon C James Derrick | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| Everything Man: The Form And Function Of Paul Robeson | Shana L Redmond | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| I Don’t Want To Die Poor: Essays | Michael Arceneaux | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| Homie: Poetry | Danez Smith | 2020 | Poetry |
| Party Of Two | Jasmine Guillory | 2020 | Fiction |
| Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Rights Era | Jerry Mitchell | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
| Remembrance | Rita Woods | 2020 | Fiction |
| Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | 2020 | Fiction |
| The City We Became: A Novel | NK Jemisin | 2020 | Fiction |
| The Color Of Law | Richard Rothstein | 2017 | Non-Fiction |
| Antiracist Baby | Ibram X Kendi | 2020 |
Children & Families
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| Notes Of A Native Son | James Baldwin | 1955 | Non-Fiction |
| Grown | Tiffany Jackson | 2020 | Young Adult |
| Pet | Emezi Akwaeke | 2019 | Young Adult |
| One Person No Vote (Ya Version) | Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden | 2019 | Young Adult |
| One Person No Vote | Carol Anderson | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Warrior Poet: A Biography Of Audre Lorde | Alexis De Veaux | 2004 | Non-Fiction |
| W E B Du Bois’S Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America | The WEB Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor) Britt Rusert (Editor) | 2018 | Non-Fiction |
| Solitary: A Biography | Albert Woodfox | 2019 | Non-Fiction |
| Don’t Call Us Dead: Poetry | Danez Smith | 2017 | Poetry |
| Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge | 2017 | Non-Fiction |
| Rebel | Beverly Jenkins | 2019 | Fiction |
| Let Us Dream | Alyssa Cole | 2017 | Fiction |
| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | 2018 | Fiction |
| The Water Dancer | Coates Ta-Nehisi | 2019 | Fiction |
| Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? | Beverly Daniel Tatum | 1997 | Non-Fiction |
| Caste | Wilkerson Isabel | 2020 | Fiction |
| Hair Love | Matthew A Cherry Illustrated by Vashti Harrison | 2019 | Fiction |
| The Mamba Mentality | Kobe Bryant | 2020 | Non-Fiction |
