Adult- Non-Fiction


  1. 12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup

  2. An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz

  3. Barbara Jordan: American Hero, by Mary Beth Rogers

  4. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston

  5. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  6. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires, by Shomari Wills

  7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

  8. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, by Condoleezza Rice

  9. Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne,The First Lady of the Black Press, by James McGrath Morris

  1. The Firebrand and the First Lady, by Patricia Bell-Scott

  2. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed

  3. Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly

  4. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, by Jon Meacham

  5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

  6. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter

  7. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Imani Perry

  8. Maine's Visible Black History: The First chronicle of Its People, by H. H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot

  9. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge, Erica Armstrong Dunbar

  10. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

  11. Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More like America, by Dorothy Butler Gilliam

  12. Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre, by Randy Krehbiel

  13. Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House, by April

  14. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson, by Paul Robeson, Jr.Ryan

  15. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives, by Dana Canedy and Darcy Eveleigh

  16. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson

  17. The Women Who Raised Me: a memoir, by Victoria Rowell

  18. The Yellow House, by Sarah Broom

  19. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

  20. The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett