- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Aburraqib
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankin
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
- I am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
- White Fragility by Robin Deangelo
- Not so Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
- Full Disclosure by Cameron Garrett
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped byJason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Layman
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo Lodge
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- I Tried to Change So You Don’t Have To by Loni Love
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
- The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Ronchon
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Native Son by Richard Wright