12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz
Barbara Jordan: American Hero, by Mary Beth Rogers
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires, by Shomari Wills
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, by Condoleezza Rice
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne,The First Lady of the Black Press, by James McGrath Morris
The Firebrand and the First Lady, by Patricia Bell-Scott
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Imani Perry
Maine's Visible Black History: The First chronicle of Its People, by H. H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More like America, by Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre, by Randy Krehbiel
Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House, by April
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson, by Paul Robeson, Jr.Ryan
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives, by Dana Canedy and Darcy Eveleigh
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
The Women Who Raised Me: a memoir, by Victoria Rowell
The Yellow House, by Sarah Broom
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett