The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Passing, Nella Larson
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
Salvage the Bones, Jessmyn Ward
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks