curated by Lydia Walker from P.S. I Still Read You
The following is a crowdsourced list of books by black authors, starring black main characters. This list is primarily curated and edited by one person, so age group and genre categorization, as well as author ethnicity, may be wrong. Click the link and fill out the form to add your recommendation to the list. Check the directions at the top of the form if you’re submitting a tag correction.
*NOTE FOR THE ETHNICITY TAGS: The main character’s ethnicity is emboldened if it’s different from the author’s.
NEW ADULT/ADULT
Contemporary/Literary Fiction/Magical Realism –
The 7-10 Split (Peach Blossom #1) by Karmen Lee [African-American] [LGBT+]
32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter [African-American]
The Accidental Pinup (Buxom Boudoir #1) by Danielle Jackson [African-American]
All 4 Love by Sharain Hemingway [African-American]
All I've Wanted All I've Needed by A.E. Valdez [African-American]
Along for the Ride by Mimi Grace [Unspecified Diaspora]
American Dreamer (Dreamers #1) by Adriana Herrera [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [LGBT+]
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones [African-American]
American Royalty (American Royalty #1) by Tracey Livesay [African-American]
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
And So I Roar by Abi Daré [African: Nigerian]
Another Country by James Baldwin [African-American] [LGBT+]
Ante Up (High Stakes #1) by Christina C. Jones [African-American]
The Art of Desire by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
The Art of Scandal by Regina Black [African-American]
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
At Her Feet by Rebekah Weatherspoon [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson [African-American]
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley [African-American]
Ayiti by Roxane Gay [African-American]
Back to Your Love (The Southern Gentlemen #1) by Kianna Alexander [African-American]
Bailey’s Café by Gloria Naylor [African-American]
Banjo by Claude McKay [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson [African-American]
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams [African: Nigerian]
Before I Let Go (Skyland #1) by Kennedy Ryan [African-American]
The Beginning of Forever by A.E. Valdez [African-American]
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue [African: Cameroonian]
The Belle Créole by Maryse Condé [Afro-Caribbean: Guadeloupean]
The Belle of Linley Cottage (Love in Lillet #1) by J.J. Greenaway [African-American]
Bet on It by Jodie Slaughter [African-American] [Mental Illness] [Plus Size]
Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant [African-American]
Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi [African: Ghanaian] [Mental Illness]
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin [African-American] [Plus Size] [LGBT+]
Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown [African-American]
Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines [African-American]
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted #1) by Jayne Allen [African-American]
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing edited by Amiri Baraka and Lawerence Neal [African-American]
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters edited by Jessica P. Pryde [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter [African: Nigerian]
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature edited by Abraham Chapman [African-American]
Black Rainbow (Rainbows #1) by J.J. McAvoy [Black Canadian]
Bless Your Heart: A Preto Village Novel by AshleyNicole [African-American]
Bliss by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Boyfriend Project (The Boyfriend Project #1) by Farrah Rochon [African-American]
The Build Up Tati Richardson [African-American] [Plus Size]
Business Not as Usual by Sharon C. Cooper [African-American]
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory [African-American]
Can't Resist Her by Kianna Alexander [African-American][LGBT+]
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray [African-American]
Claiming the Doctor's Heart (Clover Creek #1) by Sean D. Young [African-American]
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Colliding With Fate by A.E. Valdez [African-American]
Coming Home by Kennedy Ryan [African-American]
The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
A Cowboy to Remember (Cowboys of California #1) by Rebekah Weatherspoon [African-American]
Curvy Girl Summer (Curvy #1) by Danielle Allen [African-American] [Plus Size]
Dances by Nicole Cuffy [African-American]
Dangerous Destiny by Sean D. Young [African-American]
Dangerous Pleasures by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Daughters of Silence by Rebecca Fisseha [African: Ethiopian]
The Day I Fell Off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Deception by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
Deep Condition by Elle Jeffries [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Degrees in Love by Tavi Wayne [African-American]
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay [African-American]
Digging Up Love (Taste of Love #1) by Chandra Blumberg [African-American]
Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams [African-American]
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory [African-American]
D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins [African-American] [LGBT+]
Eva's Man by Gayl Jones [African-American]
Even If the Sky Is Falling edited by Taj McCoy [Afro-Mixed: Black (diaspora unspecified), Filipino, and Thai] [African-American]
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Equivalent Exchange (Night Shift #1) by Christina C. Jones [African-American]
Fake It Till You Bake It (Fake It Till You Bake It #1) by Jamie Wesley [Unspecified Diaspora]
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K'wan [African-American]
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Far from the Tree by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant [African-American]
The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams [African-American]
Fear Of Stones And Other Stories by Kei Miller [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Femme Like Her (Like Her #1) by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Figure of Speech by Kasha Thompson [African-American]
Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [African: Ethiopian] [LGBT+]
Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe [African-American]
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory [African-American] [LGBT+]
Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison [African-American]
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Forbidden Promises (Jackson Falls #1) by Synithia Williams [African-American]
Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele [African: South African]
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [Mental Illness] [LGBT+]
Friends and Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey [African-American]
The Friendship Contract by Mia Heintzelman [African-American]
The Fullness of Everything by Patricia Powell [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
From This Moment by Sean D. Young [African-American]
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1) by Talia Hibbert [Black British] [Chronic Illness] [Plus Size]
Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele [Afro-Mixed: African-American and English]
Getting His Game Back by Gia de Cadenet [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Getting Schooled (The Wright Brothers #1) by Christina C. Jones [African-American]
The Gift (Falling like a Johnson #1) by Rilzy Adams [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan and Barbudan]
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin [African-American] [LGBT+]
A Girl Like Her (Ravenswood #1) by Talia Hibbert [Black British]
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare [African: Nigerian]
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes: A Story of Love, Loss, and Rock-And-Roll (The Lillys #1) by Xio Axelrod [African-American]
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and English] [LGBT+]
Give and Take (Stories from Beauville #1) by Tigris Eden [African-American]
Go Deep (Unexpected Lovers #1) by Rilzy Adams [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan and Barbudan]
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Good Morning, Love by Ashley M. Coleman [African-American]
The Good Ones Are Taken by Taj McCoy [Afro-Mixed: Black (diaspora unspecified), Filipino, and Thai] [Plus Size]
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara [African-American]
Gotta Keep on Tryin' by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant [African-American]
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert [Black British]
Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo Okparanta [African: Nigerian]
Have We Met? by Camille Baker [African-American]
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires [African-American]
Her Best Friend's Brother (Six Gems #1) by Yahrah St. John [African-American]
Her Own Happiness by Eden Appiah-Kubi [African-American] [Plus Size]
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Hidden Sins by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie [African: Ghanaian]
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Homemade Love by J. California Cooper [African-American]
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola [African: Nigerian]
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers [African-American] [LGBT+]
Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson [African: Nigerian]
House of Agnes by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Housegirl by Michael Donkor [African: Ghanaian]
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue [African: Cameroonian]
How to Be a Better Adult by Jacque Aye [African: Nigerian]
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams [African-American]
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan [African-American]
How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals #1) by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson [African-American]
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [LGBT+]
A Hustler’s Wife (A Hustler’s Wife #1) by Nikki Turner [African-American]
I Think I Might Love You (Love Sisters #1) by Christina C. Jones [African-American]
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngũgĩ wa Mirii [African: Kenyan]
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin [African-American]
If You Love Something by Jayce Ellis [African-American] [LGBT+]
I'm So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson [African-American] [LGBT+]
In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström [African: Nigerian]
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker [African-American]
In Love's Name by A. Marie Johnson [African-American]
Intercepted (Playbook #1) by Alexa Martin [African-American]
Inevitable Conclusions (Inevitable #1) by Christina C. Jones [African-American]
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison [African-American]
The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
It Started With a List (Pacific Grove University #1) by Tinia Montford [African-American]
It's a Thin Line by Kimberla Lawson Roby [African-American]
It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan [African-American]
Janae Sanders' Second Time Around by LaQuette [African-American]
Jeremiah (High Rise #1) by Jayce Ellis [African-American] [LGBT+]
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
June and Inobe's Dating Game by Jillian Amena [Black Canadian] [LGBT+]
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin [African-American] [LGBT+]
Just My Type (Henderson Family #1) by Synithia Williams [African-American]
Just Our Luck by Denise Williams [African-American]
Just the Two of Us by Sean D. Young [African-American]
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson [African-American]
Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton [African-American]
The Last Street Novel by Omar Tyree [African-American]
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor [African-American] [LGBT+]
Learned Behaviors (Higher Education #1) by Jayce Ellis [African-American] [LGBT+]
Let Me Liberate You by Andie Davis [Afro-Caribbean: (unspecified)]
Let Me Love You (McClain Brothers #1) by Alexandria House [African-American]
Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura [African: Zimbabwean]
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and British]
A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins [African-American] [LGBT+]
Little Family by Ishmael Beah [African: Sierra Leonean]
Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington [African-American] [LGBT+]
Love by Toni Morrison [African-American]
The Love Con by Seressia Glass [African-American]
Love! Love! Fighting! Vol. 1 (Love! Love! Fighting! #1) by Sharean Morishita [African-American] [Plus Size]
Love and Sportsball (Atlanta Cannons #1) by Meka James [African-American] [LGBT+]
Love's Divine by Ava Freeman [African-American] [LGBT+]
Loving Day by Mat Johnson [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Irish]
A Lowcountry Bride (Brides of Lowcountry #1) by Preslaysa Williams [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Filipino]
Luster by Raven Leilani [African-American]
Maame by Jessica George [Black British]
The Magical Femme: A Lesbian Short Story by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Make a Scene (Lovestruck #1) by Mimi Grace [Unspecified Diaspora] [Plus Size]
Mama by Terry McMillan [African-American]
Matters of Convenience by Roy L. Pickering Jr. [African-American]
A McClendon Thanksgiving (McClendon Holiday #1) by Sean D. Young [African-American]
Memorial by Bryan Washington [African-American] [LGBT+]
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charish Reid [African-American] [Physical Disability] [Plus Size]
A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Million Dollar Divorce (The Million Dollar #1) by R.M. Johnson [African-American]
The Moment We Met by Camille Baker [African-American]
Mosquito by Gayl Jones [African-American]
The Mothers by Brit Bennett [African-American]
Mountains, Malbec, and Men by Noelle Cumberland [African-American]
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi [African: Nigerian]
Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and English] [LGBT+]
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
Ms. V's Hot Girl Summer by A.H. Cunningham [African-American]
Mule Bone by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes [African-American]
Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson [African-American]
My Dear Friend Janet (Southern Belle Insults #1) by Keke Palmer with Jasmine Guillory [African-American]
My Parents' Marriage by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond [African: Ghanaian]
Nappily Ever After (Nappily #1) by Trisha R. Thomas [African-American]
Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku [African: Nigerian]
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest (The Greene Sisters #1) [African-American]
Never Tell by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley [African-American]
No Holds Barred (In the Heart of a Valentine #1) by Stephanie Nicole Norris [African-American]
No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel [African-American]
Nobody's Magic by Destiny O. Birdsong [African-American]
Not Just Another Interlude by Lara T. Kareem [African: Nigerian]
The (not so) Hairsterical Life of a Nappy-Headed Black Girl by Jackie Cotham [African-American]
Not the Plan by Gia de Cadenet [African-American]
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins by Kathleen Collins [African-American]
Odufa, A Lover's Tale by Othuke Ominiabohs [African: Nigerian]
Oh Gad! by Joanne C. Hillhouse [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan and Barbudan]
On Beauty by Zadie Smith [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi [African: Ghanaian]
The Only Black Girl in the Room by Alex Travis [African-American]
Only For The Week by Natasha Bishop [African-American]
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson [African: Ghanaian]
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma [African: Nigerian]
Ordinary People by Diana Evans [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and English]
Out of Office by A.H. Cunningham [African-American]
Outdrawn by Deanna Grey [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Outsider by Richard Wright [African-American]
The Pain Tree by Olive Senior [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Paradise by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Pardon My Frenchie by Farrah Rochon [African-American]
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat [African: Ethiopian]
A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin [African: Nigerian]
Passing by Nella Larsen [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Caribbean (unspecified) and Danish] [African-American]
Pastoral (Quincunx #1) by André Alexis [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Patches Of Grey by Roy L. Pickering Jr. [African-American]
Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Pauper, Brawler, And Slanderer by Amos Tutuola [African: Nigerian]
Peneration Testing by A.H. Cunningham [African-American]
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian]
The Perfect Date by Evelyn Lozada with Holly Lorincz [African-American]
The Perfect Find by Tia Williams [African-American]
Permission to Dream by Chris Gardner [African-American]
Pink Slip (The Spies Who Loved Her #1) by Katrina Jackson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Plié (Wicked Moves #1) by A.H. Cunningham [African-American]
Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne [African-American]
A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1) by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert [Black British] [Plus Size] [LGBT+]
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker [African-American]
Power & Beauty: A Love Story of Life on the Streets (Power & Beauty #1) by Clifford "T.I." Harris and David Ritz [African-American]
Power Of Persuasion by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian] [Mental Illness]
Quicksand by Nella Larsen [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Caribbean (unspecified) and Danish]
Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny (Loose Ends #1) Rebekah Weatherspoon [African-American]
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry [African-American]
Real Life by Brandon Taylor [African-American] [LGBT+]
Real Men Knit (Real Men Knit #1) by Kwana Jackson [African-American]
Red Island House by Andrea Lee [African-American] [African: (unspecified)]
The Referral Program by Shamara Ray [African-American]
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson [African-American]
The Return of Simple by Langston Hughes [African-American]
The Re-Write by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn [African: Nigerian]
The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole [African: Nigerian]
The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert [Black British] [LGBT+]
Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah [African: Ghanaian]
Rules of Engagement by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
Salvage the Bones (Bois Sauvage #1) by Jesmyn Ward [Afro-Mixed: Haitian, Choctaw, and Caucasian (unspecified)] [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)]
The Same Earth by Kei Miller [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo [African: Nigerian]
Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy [Afro-Mixed: Black (diaspora unspecified), Filipino, and Thai] [Plus Size]
Second Tide's the Charm by Chandra Blumberg [African-American]
The Secret Book Club by Shauna Robinson [African-American]
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin [African: Nigerian]
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw [African-American] [LGBT+]
Secrets and Lies by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
The Secret to a Southern Wedding (Peachtree Cove #1) by Synithia Williams [African-American]
The Selfless Act of Breathing by J.J. Bola [African: Congolese]
The Sellout by Paul Beatty [African-American]
The Serpent’s Gift by Helen Elaine Lee [African-American]
Set (Them Boys #1) by Alexandria House [African-American]
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams [African-American]
Sex, Lies and Sensibility by Nikki Payne [African-American]
Shadows and Whispers by K.C. Mills [African-American] [Mental Illness]
The Situationship by Taylor-Dior Rumble [Black British]
Skin & Bones by Renée Watson [African-American] [Plus Size]
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ [African: Senegalese]
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli [African: Nigerian] [Mental Illness]
Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu [African: Ethiopian]
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia [African: Nigerian]
Straight From the Heart by Sean D. Young [African-American]
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid [African-American]
A Summer of Dandelions by Whitney Amazeen [African-American]
Sunny Disposition (Mendell Hawks #1) by Deanna Grey [African-American]
Sweat by Lynn Nottage [African-American]
Sweet Talkin' Lover (Girls Trip #1) by Tracey Livesay [African-American]
The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo [African: Nigerian]
Sweethand (Island Bites #1) by N.G.Peltier [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [LGBT+]
Swing Time by Zadie Smith [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison [African-American]
A Taste Of Sin (How Sweet It Is #1) by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker [African-American]
That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida [Afro-Mixed: Angolan and Portuguese]
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Forrest County #1) by Leon Forrest [African-American]
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith [African-American] [Mental Illness]
This Motherless Land by Nikki May [African: Nigerian]
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara [African-American]
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Thug #1) by Wahida Clark [African-American]
Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo [African: Nigerian]
Token by Beverley Kendall [African-American]
The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster by Shauna Robinson [African-American]
Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker [African-American]
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi [African: Ghanaian]
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon [African-American] [LGBT+]
Truth or Dare by Danielle Allen [African-American]
Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant [African-American]
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay [African-American]
Uncovering Her Cravings (Big City, Small World #1) by Rae Shawn [African-American]
Until I Met You by Amber Rose Gill [Afro-Mixed: Cape Verdean, Irish, Italian, and Scottish]
Upsy Daisy (Higher Learning #1) by Chelsie Edwards [African-American]
Vanessa Jared's Got a Man by LaQuette [African-American]
Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale #1) by Terry McMillan [African-American]
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories by Nana Nkweti [African: Cameroonian]
Wash Day by Jamila Rowser [African-American]
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser [African-American] [Plus Size] [LGBT+]
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa [African-American]
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date #1) by Jasmine Guillory [African-American] [Plus Size]
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo [African: Zimbabwean]
Welcome to Mistywood Lane (Mistywood Lane #1) by Reon Laudat [African-American]
What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You by Sharma Taylor [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins [African-American]
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah [African: Nigerian]
What's Wrong With M.E.N. by C.W. Burnett [African-American]
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi [African: Nigerian]
When I Think of You by Myah Ariel [African-American]
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head [African: South African - Botswana]
Whenever You're Ready by Rachel Runya Katz [Afro-Mixed: Black and Jewish (unspecified)] [LGBT+]
Where There Are Monsters by Breanne Mc Ivor [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo [African: Nigerian]
Where Wild Peaches Grow by Cade Bentley [African-American]
White Teeth by Zadie Smith [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Winner Takes All (The Millionaires Club #1) by Sandra Kitt [African-American]
With This Ring by Sean D. Young [African-American]
The Wives We Play (Unconditional #1) by Briana Cole [African-American]
Working Through It by Kasha Thompson [African-American]
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa [African-American]
Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert [Black British]
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn [African: Nigerian]
You Can't Plan Love (Southern Love #1) by Synithia Williams [African-American]
You Know Better by Tina McElroy Ansa [African-American]
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Zainab Takes New York by Ayesha Harruna Attah [African: Ghanaian]
Zora Books Her Happy Ever After by Taj McCoy [Afro-Mixed: Black (diaspora unspecified), Filipino, and Thai] [Plus Size]
Historical Fiction –
54 Miles by Leonard Pitts Jr. [African-American]
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu [African: Ethiopian]
Always and Forever by Beverly Jenkins [African-American]
Aphrodite and the Duke: A Novel (The Dubells #1) by J.J. McAvoy [Black Canadian]
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop [Unspecified Diaspora: French West African]
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
Augustown by Kei Miller [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Back Channel by Stephen L. Carter [African-American]
Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez [African-American]
Be Not Afraid by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
Beloved by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi [African: Ghanaian]
The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman [African-American]
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)]
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Hatian]
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall [African-American]
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (Las Léonas #1) by Adriana Herrera [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander [African-American]
Caucasia by Danzy Senna [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Mexican, and Irish]
The Color Purple by Alice Walker [African-American]
Confessions in B Flat by Donna Hill [African-American]
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora [African: Ghanaian]
Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology by Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, and Piper Huguley [African-American]
Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash [African-American]
Deacon King Kong by James McBride [African-American]
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play by Wole Soyinka [African: Nigerian]
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley [African-American]
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Hatian]
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black [African-American] [LGBT+]
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper [African-American]
An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League #1) by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton [African-American]
Forbidden (Old West #1) by Beverly Jenkins [African-American]
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines [African-American]
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi [African: Ugandan]
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride [African-American]
The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle [African-American]
Grace by Natashia Deón [African-American]
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead [African-American]
Hold You Down by Tracy Brown [African-American]
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [African: Ghanaian]
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah [African: Ghanaian]
I Am Ayah: The Way Home by Donna Hill [African-American]
In West Mills by De'shawn Charles Winslow [African-American]
Island Queen by Vanessa Riley [Afro-Mixed: Trinidadian and Irish]
Jazz by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Jubilee by Margaret Walker [African-American]
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison [African-American]
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton [African-American]
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
The Known World by Edward P. Jones [African-American]
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones [African-American]
Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge [African-American]
Little Suns by Zakes Mda [African: South African - Lesotho]
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams [African-American]
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers [African-American]
This Lovely City by Louise Hare [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian (other ethnicity unknown)] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow [African-American]
A Mercy by Toni Morrison [African-American]
The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope [African-American]
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
Mrs. Wiggins (Lexington, Alabama #1) by Mary Monroe [African-American]
Native Son by Richard Wright [African-American]
Nervous Conditions (Nervous Conditions #1) by Tsitsi Dangarembga [African: Zimbabwean]
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead [African-American]
Nobody's Princess (The Wild Wynchesters #3) by Erica Ridley [African-American]
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell [African: Zambian]
One Blood by Denene Millner [African-American]
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [African-American]
Pride and Joy by Louisa Onomé [African: Nigerian]
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. [African-American] [LGBT+]
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley [Afro-Mixed: Trinidadian and Irish] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Rebel (Women Who Dare #1) by Beverly Jenkins [African-American]
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton [African-American]
Remembrance by Rita Woods [African-American]
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton [African-American]
The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard [African-American]
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley [African-American]
Ruined by Lynn Nottage [African-American] [African: Congolese]
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste [African: Ethiopian]
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore [African: Liberian]
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones [African-American]
Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley [Afro-Mixed: Trinidadian and Irish] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson [African-American]
Small Island by Andrea Levy [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ [African: Nigerian]
The Street by Ann Petry [African-American]
Sugar (Sugar Lacey #1) by Bernice L. McFadden [African-American]
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes #1) by Edward Kelsey Moore [African-American]
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez [African-American]
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar [African: (unspecified)]
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1) by Chinua Achebe [African: Nigerian]
Three Sisters by Inua Ellams [African: Nigerian]
Through the Storm (Le Veq Family #1) by Beverly Jenkins [African-American]
‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead [African-American]
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett [African-American]
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan [Black Canadian]
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates [African-American]
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge [African-American]
What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas [African-American]
When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown [African-American]
Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins [African-American]
Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce [African-American]
The Women of Brewster Place (Brewster Place #1) Gloria Naylor [African-American]
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson [African-American]
Mystery/Thriller/Horror –
The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith [African-American]
Atlanta Noir by Tayari Jones [African-American]
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow [Black British] [LGBT+]
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle [African: Ugandan]
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers edited by Otto Penzler [African-American]
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby [African-American]
Body and Soul Food (Books & Biscuits Mystery #1) by Abby Collette [African-American]
The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross [Afro-Caribbean: Grenadian]
Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #1) by Nekesa Afia [Black Canadian] [LGBT+]
A Deadly Inside Scoop (Ice Cream Parlor Mystery #1) by Abby Collette [African-American]
The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle [African: Ugandan] [Mental Illness] [Plus Size]
Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones #1) by Walter Mosley [African-American]
Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day #1) by Kellye Garrett [African-American]
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Ice Cream Girls (Poppy & Serena #1) by Dorothy Koomson [African: Ghanaian]
It's Elementary by Elise Bryant [African-American]
A Killing Fire by Faye Snowden [African-American]
Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [African: Nigerian] [African: Ghanaian] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Scottish]
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite [African: Nigerian]
On Sundays, She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield [African-American] [LGBT+]
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [African-American]
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris [African-American]
Reckless (Faraday #1) by Selena Montgomery [African-American]
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West [African-American]
Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon [African-American]
The Spite House by Johnny Compton [African-American]
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes by Paula L. Woods [African-American]
Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith [African-American]
The Strivers' Row Spy (Renaissance #1) by Jason Overstreet [African-American]
Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts [African-American]
The Vanishing Girls by Callie Browning [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb [African-American]
Wahala by Nikki May [African: Nigerian]
When Death Comes Stealing (Tamara Hayle #1) by Valerie Wilson Wesley [African-American]
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams [African-American]
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1) by Kwei Quartey [African: Ghanaian]
Non-Fiction –
24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid by Willie Mays and John Shea [African-American]
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones [African-American]
Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me by Jamie Foxx [African-American]
Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe by Jeezy [African-American]
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks [African-American]
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu [African: Tanzanian]
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley [Afro-Mixed: Black and Jewish (unspecified)]
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack [African-American]
The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers [African-American] [African: Senegalese]
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks [African-American]
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall [African-American]
American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein [African-American]
An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis [African-American]
Angry Black Girl by Elexus Jionde [African-American]
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism by Alice Walker [African-American]
Around the Way Girl by Taraji P. Henson with Denene Millner [African-American]
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan - Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh]
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X [African-American]
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur [African-American]
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen [African-American] [Plus Size]
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay [African-American]
Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams by Yvonne Orji [African: Nigerian]
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill [African-American]
Becoming by Michelle Obama [African-American]
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to the Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn [African-American]
Believe by Leigh-Anne Pinnock with Natalie Morris [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan and Jamaican] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam [African-American]
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates [African-American]
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper [African-American]
Black: A Celebration of Culture by Deborah Willis [African-American]
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman [African: Ghanaian] [LGBT+]
Black Boy by Richard Wright [African-American]
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad [Unspecified Diaspora] [LGBT+]
Black Cop's Kid: An Essay by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [African-American]
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd [African-American]
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney [African-American]
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters [African-American]
Black Feminist Archaeology by Whitney Battle-Baptiste [Afro-Mixed: African (unspecified) and Cherokee] [African-American]
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills [African-American]
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph [African-American]
Black Indian: A Memoir by Shonda Buchanan [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Native American (unspecified), and European (unspecified)]
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard [African-American]
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph by Chad Sanders [African-American]
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy [African-American]
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting: Real Talk for When There's Nowhere to Go But Up by Terrie Williams [African-American]
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker [African-American]
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole [African: Nigerian]
Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing by Zee Clarke [African-American]
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon [Afro-Caribbean: Martinican]
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham [African: Nigerian]
The Black Woman: An Anthology edited by Toni Cade [African-American]
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross [African-American]
Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem by April Ryan [African-American]
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish]
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor [African-American]
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks [African-American]
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah [Afro-Mixed: South African - Xhosa and Swiss]
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer [African: Malawian]
Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand [Black Canadian] [LGBT+]
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry [African-American]
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch [Afro-Mixed: Ghanaian - Akan and Jewish]
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan and Grenadian] [LGBT+]
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith [African-American]
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
By Any Greens Necessary by Tracye Lynn McQuirter [African-American]
Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay [African: Ghanaian]
Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis [African-American]
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [African-American]
Checking In: How Getting Real about Depression Saved My Life - and Can Save Yours by Michelle Williams [African-American]
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley [African-American] [LGBT+]
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine [African-American]
The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish]
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South by Anne Moody [African-American]
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership edited by Ed Gordon [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan] [African-American]
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty [African-American]
Creative Quest by Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson [African-American]
Dance Your Dance: 8 Steps to Unleash Your Passion and Live Your Dream by Laurieann Gibson with Mark Dagostino [Black Canadian]
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day [African-American]
Dark Days by James Baldwin [African-American]
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas [African-American]
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power by Tamara Winfrey Harris [African-American]
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace by Osheta Moore [African-American]
Dear White People by Justin Simien [African-American]
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [African-American]
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdés [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Puerto Rican] [Afro-Mixed: Puerto Rican and German]
Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature by Dick Gregory [African-American]
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore [African: Liberian]
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan - Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh]
Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion by Tanisha C. Ford [African-American]
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
The Emancipation of Women by Florence Abena Dolphyne [African: Ghanaian]
Encyclopedia of Black Comics by Sheena C. Howard [African-American]
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley [African-American]
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson [African-American]
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin [African-American]
Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace by Carla Harris [African-American]
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom by Tabitha Brown [African-American]
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks [African-American]
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks [African-American]
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman [African: Ghanaian] [African-American] [African: Ugandan] [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Finding Me by Viola Davis [African-American]
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin [African-American]
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward [Afro-Mixed: Haitian, Choctaw, and Caucasian (unspecified)]
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Leah Daughtry, Yolanda Caraway, Minyon Moore, Donna Brazile, and Veronica Chambers [African-American]
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain [African-American]
Foxy: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier with Andrea Cagan [African-American]
A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City by Erica Armstrong Dunbar [African-American]
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis [African-American]
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [African-American]
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke [African-American]
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker [African-American]
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing [African-American]
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt [African: Nigerian]
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya [African: Rwandan - Tutsi]
GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty by Kahran Bethencourt and Regis Bethencourt [African-American]
Going to the Territory by Ralph Ellison [African-American]
The Good Fight by Shirley Chisholm [African-American]
Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts [African-American]
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World by Cole Brown [African-American]
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women by Noliwe M. Rooks [African-American]
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler by Lynell George [African-American]
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry [African-American]
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience by Ayesha Rascoe [African-American]
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon [African-American]
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays by R. Eric Thomas [African-American]
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly [African-American]
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa [African-American] [African: Nigerian]
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham [African-American]
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall [African-American]
The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul [African-American]
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith [African-American]
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi [African-American]
How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue [African: Nigerian]
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker [African-American]
How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi [African-American]
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon [African-American]
How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life by Karl Subban and Scott Colby [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones [African-American] [LGBT+]
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay [African-American]
I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro [African: Zimbabwean]
I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds by Sunny Hostin [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Puerto Rican]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1) [African-American]
I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To: True Life Lessons by Loni Love [African-American]
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster [African-American]
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown [African-American]
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi [African: Nigerian] [Mental Illness]
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries That Touch the Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan with Julia Turshen [African: Somali]
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Wil Haygood [African-American]
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano [African: Nigerian]
It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton [African-American] [LGBT+]
An Image of Africa by Chinua Achebe [African: Nigerian]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs [African-American]
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor by Rain Pryor with Cathy Crimmins [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish]
Jonestown and Other Madness: Poetry by Pat Parker [African-American] [LGBT+]
Journey to the Land of My Soul: An African American Woman Tells the Story of Her Journey to Judaism and Jerusalem by Ahuvah Gray [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish]
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook by Toni Tipton-Martin [African-American]
Just as I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson [African-American]
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson [African-American]
Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice by Maisha T. Winn [African-American]
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks [African-American]
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett [African-American]
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish [African: Eritrean]
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. [African-American]
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou [African-American]
Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve by Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)]
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne [African-American]
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells-Barnett [African-American]
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama [African-American]
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib [African-American]
Living by the Word: Essays by Alice Walker [African-American]
Love Him or Leave Him, But Don't Get Stuck With the Tab: Hilarious Advice for Real Women by Loni Love [African-American]
The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story by Ebony Roberts [African-American]
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani [African-American]
March (March #1) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin [African-American]
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan and Grenadian]
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Venezuelan, and Irish]
The Measure of a Man by Martin Luther King Jr. [African-American]
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington [African-American]
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Caucasian (unspecified)]
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts [African-American]
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey [African-American]
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward [Afro-Mixed: Haitian, Choctaw, and Caucasian (unspecified)]
Message to the Blackman in America by Elijah Muhammad [African-American]
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe [African-American]
Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams [African-American]
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae [African-American]
Miseducated: My Journey by Brandon P. Fleming [African-American]
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson [African-American]
Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain by Natalie Morris [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Italian, Irish, and Scottish]
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth [African-American]
Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision by Toni Morrison [African-American]
The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory [African-American]
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis [African-American]
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin [African-American]
My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood by St. Clair Detrick-Jules [Afro-Caribbean: (unspecified)]
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers [African-American]
Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward [Afro-Mixed: Haitian, Choctaw, and Caucasian (unspecified)]
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar [African-American]
New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby [African: Ghanaian] [African: Nigerian] [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan] [African: Ivorian] [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and English] [Afro-Mixed: Sierra Leonean and Scottish] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Black British] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican, Scottish, and Jewish] [African: Cameroonian] [Afro-Mixed: Bajan and Nigerian] [African: Egyptian] [African: Nigerian and Ghanaian] [African: Somali] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Black British] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan] [African-American]
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander [African-American]
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy [African-American]
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore [African-American] [LGBT+]
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler [African-American]
Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser by Rinny Perkins [African-American]
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin [African-American]
Obviously: Stories from My Timeline by Akilah Hughes [African-American]
Officer Clemmons by François S. Clemmons [African-American] [LGBT+]
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library by Glory Edim [African-American]
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Perry Bundles [African-American]
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed [African-American]
The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Chinese] [LGBT+]
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore [African-American]
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump [African-American]
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Puerto Rican] [LGBT+]
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams [African-American]
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson [African-American]
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard [Black Canadian]
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [African-American]
Prejudice Bones in My Body: Essays on Muslim Racism, Bigotry and Spiritual Abuse by Umm Zakiyyah [African-American]
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown [African-American]
A Promised Land by Barack Obama [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan - Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh]
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner [African-American]
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris [African-American]
Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters by Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman [African-American]
The Quick Fix Kitchen: Easy Recipes and Time-Saving Tips for a Healthier, Stress-Free Life: A Cookbook by Tia Mowry [Afro-Mixed: Bahamian and Irish]
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams with Jeannine Amber [African-American]
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [African-American]
Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
by Georgina Lawton [Black British]
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah [African-American]
The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett Sr. [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont U-God Hawkins [African-American]
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin [African-American]
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough by Candice Marie Benbow [African-American]
The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett [African-American]
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Hawaiian, and Portuguese] [LGBT+]
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown [African-American] [LGBT+]
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton [African-American]
Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women by Shanita Hubbard [African-American]
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts [African-American]
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany D. Cross [African-American]
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul by Oludara Adeeyo [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab [African-American]
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison [African-American]
Shaq's Family Style: Championship Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends by Shaquille O'Neal [African-American]
She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson [African-American]
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan and Grenadian] [LGBT+]
Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené [African: Nigerian]
Small Doses by Amanda Seales [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Grenadian]
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Caucasian (unspecified)]
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford [African-American]
something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson [African-American]
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins [African-American]
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots by Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby [Afro-Mixed: African (ethnicity unknown), Polish-Jewish, and African-American]
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois [African-American]
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison [African-American]
Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Tunde Oyeneyin [African: Nigerian]
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk [African-American]
Stamped from the Beginning:The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi [African-American]
The State of Black Girls: A Go-To Guide for Creating Safe Space for Black Girls by Marline Francois-Madden LCSW [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Iranian]
Stupid Black Girl: Essays from an American African by Aisha Redux [American-African]
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee [African-American]
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton [African-American]
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Hawaiian, and Portuguese] [LGBT+]
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson [African-American]
Take Care: The Black Women’s Guide to Wellness by Chloe Pierre [African-American]
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi [African: Ghanaian] [African: Nigerian]
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and English]
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden [African-American]
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald [African-American]
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery [African-American]
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib [African-American]
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin [African-American]
Think Black: A Memoir of Sacrifice, Success, and Self-Loathing in Corporate America by Clyde W. Ford [African-American]
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe [African: Senegalese]
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Lawson [African-American]
This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew [African-American]
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins [African-American]
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs [African-American]
Top Billin': Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph by Bill Bellamy [African-American]
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray [African-American]
Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds by Remi Adeleke [African: Nigerian]
True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself by Janet Jackson with David Ritz [African-American]
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian]
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup [African-American]
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Irish]
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve by Rheeda Walker [African-American]
Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm [African-American]
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still [African-American]
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby [African-American]
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington [African-American]
Uphill: A Memoir by Jemele Hill [African-American]
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis [African-American]
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson [African-American]
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals [African-American]
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy by Natalie Baszile [African-American]
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
by Mariame Kaba [African: Guinean and Ivorian] [African-American]
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love [African-American]
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehesi Coates [African-American]
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne [African-American]
Well-Read Black Girl edited by Glory Edim [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish] [Afro-Mixed: South African and American (unspecified)]
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey [African-American]
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union [African-American]
What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough by Chidera Eggerue [African: Nigerian]
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young [African-American]
What We Lose by Zizini Clemmons [Afro-Mixed: South African and American (unspecified)]
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan [African-American]
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele [African-American]
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson [African-American]
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba [Unspecified Diaspora]
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson [African-American]
Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You by Tia Mowry [Afro-Mixed: Bahamian and Irish]
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum [African-American]
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge [Black British]
Will by Will Smith with Mark Manson [African-American]
Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life by Sarah Jakes Roberts [African-American]
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis [African-American]
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara and Samantha Anderson [African: Burkinabé]
The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar [African-American]
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby [African-American]
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes [African-American]
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom [African-American]
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson [African-American]
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union with Kevin Carr O'Leary [African-American]
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar [African-American]
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan and Grenadian] [LGBT+]
Poetry Anthology –
1919 by Eve L. Ewing [African-American]
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young [African-American]
Ain't Never Not Been Black by Javon Johnson [African-American]
A Beautiful Composition of Broken by R.H. Sin [African-American]
Black Girl, Call Homeby Jasmine Mans [African-American] [LGBT+]
Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri [African-American] [LGBT+]
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Nigerian]
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman [African-American]
The Chaos of Longing by K.Y. Robinson [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine [African-American]
The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes [African-American]
Complete Poems by James Weldon Johnson [African-American]
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar [African-American]
Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley [African: Senegalese]
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib [African-American]
Daylight by Roya Marsh [African-American] [LGBT+]
Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood by Bunmi Laditan [African-American]
Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich [African-American] [LGBT+]
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith [African-American] [LGBT+]
Duende by Tracy K. Smith [African-American]
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing [African-American]
Finna by Nate Marshall [African-American]
a fire like you by Upile Chisala [African: Malawian]
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas [Black Canadian] [LGBT+]
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker [African-American]
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman [African-American]
Homie by Danez Smith [African-American] [LGBT+]
HoodWitch by Faylita Hicks [African-American] [LGBT+]
I Am Nobody's Nigger by Dean Atta [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Greek]
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith [African-American]
Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker [African-American]
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta [Afro-Mixed: Greek and Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Poems by Maya Angelou [African-American]
Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley [African: Senegalese]
The Selected Poems, 1968-1995 by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
Selected Poems by Claude McKay [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks [African-American]
Selected Poems by Rita Dove [African-American]
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez [African-American]
She's Strong, but She's Tired by R.H. Sin [African-American]
soft magic. by Upile Chisala [African: Malawian]
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes [African-American]
Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics by Alicia Keys [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Italian, Irish, and Scottish]
To Sweeten Bitter by Raymond Antrobus [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Nigerian]
The Tradition by Jericho Brown [African-American] [LGBT+]
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith [African-American]
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby [African-American]
We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems by Jessica Care Moore [African-American]
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes [African-American]
What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Whiskey Words & a Shovel by R.H. Sin [African-American]
WITCHDOCTORPOET by Bola Juju [African: Nigerian - Yoruba]
Words from a Wanderer: Notes and Love Poems by Alexandra Elle [African-American]
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Dystopia/Paranormal –
After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight [African-American] [African: Ugandan] [African: Nigerian] [African: Zimbabwean] [African: Egyptian] [African: Motswana] [African: Senegalese] [Afro-Mixed: Franco-Senegalese] [African: Kenyan] [African: Ghanaian] [LGBT+]
The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
Angelborn (Angelborn Cycle #1) by L. Penelope [African-American]
The Balance of Fates (Fate and Legacy #1) by Raquel Raelynn [African-American]
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian and Tobagonian] [LGBT+]
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Binti (Binti #1) by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business (Bitter Root #1-5) by David F. Walker [African-American]
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) edited by Tia Ross [African-American]
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse [African-American] [LGBT+]
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi [African: Nigerian]
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
By Sea & Sky: An Esowon Story (The Sky Pirate Chronicles #1) by Antoine Bandele [African-American]
The Changeling by Victor LaValle [African: Ugandan]
The City We Became (Great Cities #1) by N.K. Jemisin [African-American]
The Conductors (Murder and Magic #1) by Nicole Glover [African-American]
Conquest (Dragon Bones, #1) by Celeste Harte [African-American]
Dawn (Xenogenesis #1) by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Fatma el-Sha’arawi #1) by P. Djèlí Clark [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian and Tobagonian]
The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish] [LGBT+]
Enslaved in Shadows (Shadow Unit #1) by Tigris Eden [African-American]
Every Dark Desire (The Desire Series #1) by Fiona Zedde [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Faebound (Faebound #1) by Saara El-Arifi [Afro-Mixed: Ghanaian, British, Sudanese, Arab] [LGBT+]
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin [African-American] [LGBT+]
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah [African-American]
The Final Strife (Ending Fire #1) by Saara El-Arifi [Afro-Mixed: Ghanaian, British, Sudanese, Arab] [LGBT+]
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez [African American and Siouan - Bah-Kho-Je] [LGBT+]
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi [African: Nigerian]
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Greyborn Rising by Derry Sandy [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams [African: Nigerian] [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Greek]
The Heaviness of Knowing (Conscious Dreamer #1) by Sharolyn G. Brown [African-American]
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1) by N.K. Jemisin [African-American]
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage [African-American]
In the Shadow of the Fall (Guardians of the Gods #1) by Tobi Ogundiran [African: Nigerian]
Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley [African-American]
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead [African-American]
A Killing in the Sun by Dilman Dila [African: Ugandan]
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood #1) by N.K. Jemisin [African-American]
The Kishi (Tales from Esowon #1) by Antoine Bandele [African-American]
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull [African-American]
The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1) by Moses Ose Utomi [African: Nigerian]
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola [African: Nigerian]
Magic Dark, Magic Divine (Warrior of the Divine Sword #1) by A.J. Locke [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor [African-American]
Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston [African-American]
Mem by Bethany C. Morrow [African-American]
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas [African-American] [LGBT+]
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [African: Ugandan] [African: Nigerian - Yoruba] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [African: Kenyan] [African: Nigerian] [Afro-Mixed: Somali and Swiss-German] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Irish]
Multitude of Visions: Liminal Spaces in 3D by Sandra T. and Yah Yah Scholfield [African-American]
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola [African: Nigerian]
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Adrienne Maree Brown [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Ethiopian, Scottish, Irish, and Native American (unspecified)] [LGBT+]
One Winter's Kiss: A Beautiful Nightmare Story by L.C. Son [African-American]
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
The Perishing by Natashia Deón [African-American]
Popisho by Leone Ross [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Principle of Moments (Order of Legends #1) by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian, Jamaican, and British-Australian]
Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm #1) by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
Radio Silence (Off the Grid #1) by Alyssa Cole [African-American]
The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winters [Unspecified Diaspora: Black South American]
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian and Tobagonian]
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi [African: Nigerian]
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy #1) by Tade Thompson [African: Nigerian]
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown [African-American]
Shallow Waters by Anita Kopacz [Unspecified Diaspora] [African: Yoruba]
Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic #1) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa [African: Nigerian]
Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicles #1) by L. Penelope [African-American]
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps #1) by Kai Ashante Wilson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon [African-American] [LGBT+]
Stone and Steel by Eboni J. Dunbar [[African-American] [LGBT+]
Sweep of Stars (Astra Black #1) by Maurice Broaddus [Black British]
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps #1) by Kimberly Lemming [African-American] [Plus Size]
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Travelers by Regina Porter [African-American]
Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Visit (Black Stars #1) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [African: Nigerian]
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon [African-American]
Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death #1) by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
Wild Seed (Patternmaster #1) by Octavia E. Butler [African-American]
Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston [African-American] [LGBT+]
Witchful Thinking (Elemental Love #1) by Celestine Martin [African-American]
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories by Rion Amilcar Scott [African-American]
Zone One by Colson Whitehead [African-American]
YOUNG ADULT
Contemporary/Literary Fiction/Magical Realism –
16 & Pregnant: A Novel by LaLa Thomas [Afro-Caribbean: Unspecified]
145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers [African-American]
Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely [African-American]
All Signs Point to Yes edited by Cam Montgomery and Adrianne White [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Puerto Rican (other ethnicity unknown)] [Afro-Mixed: Black Biracial] [LGBT+]
All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr [African: Sierra Leonean] [Mental Illness]
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis [African-American] [Developmental Disability]
All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani [African-American] [Mental Illness]
American Street by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
And Other Mistakes by Erika Turner [African-American] [LGBT+]
And The Stars Were Burning Brightly (And The Stars Were Burning Brightly #1) by Danielle Jawando [Black British]
Arilla Sun Down by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
As Long As We’re Together by Brianna Peppins [African-American] [LGBT+]
As You Walk on By by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams [African-American]
Bad Boy by Dream Jordan [African-American]
The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American] [LGBT+]
Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Caribbean (unspecified), Irish, and English] [LGBT+]
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi [African-American] [African: Nigerian] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [LGBT+] [Plus Size]
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta [Afro-Mixed: Greek and Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed [African-American]
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown [African-American]
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Blue Tights by Rita Williams-Garcia [African-American]
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
Break This House by Candice Iloh [African: Nigerian]
Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins [African-American]
Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo [African: Sudanese]
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes [African-American]
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Viviana Mazza [African: Nigerian]
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery [African-American] [LGBT+]
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani [African-American]
Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Chaos Theory by Nic Stone [African-American]
Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne [African-American]
The Chosen One by Echo Brown [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [LGBT+]
Color Me In by Natasha Diaz [Afro-Mixed: Brazilian, Jewish, and Liberian] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican, African-American, and Jewish]
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney [African-American] [Chronic Illness]
Cool. Awkward. Black. edited by Karen Strong [African-American] [African: Ghanaian] [African: Nigerian] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Mixed: Korean and African American] [LGBT+]
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris [African-American]
Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos [African-American] [LGBT+]
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Dear Martin (Dear Martin #1) by Nic Stone [African-American]
The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Double Crossed by Cachline Etienne [Afro-Caribbean: Bahamian]
Dreams Beyond the Shore by Tamika Gibson [African-American]
Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds [African-American]
Edith Jackson by Rosa Guy [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Even When Your Voice Shakes by Ruby Yayra Goka [African: Ghanaian]
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh [African: Nigerian]
Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat edited by Cassandra Newbould [African-American]
Every Variable of Us by Charles A. Bush [African-American]
Everyone We've Been by Sarah Everett [African: Nigerian]
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Japanese]
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney [African-American]
Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather [Afro-Caribbean: Bahamian]
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The Fight (Drama High #1) by L. Divine [African-American]
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill [African-American]
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington [African-American] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker [African-American]
Forty-two Minutes by Janay Harden [African-American]
Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar [Black British] [African-American]
Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett [African-American] [LGBT+]
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Flyy Girl (Flyy Girl #1) by Omar Tyree [African-American]
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett [African-American] [LGBT+]
Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between edited by Laura Silverman [African-American]
A Girl's Guide to Love & Magic by Debbie Rigaud [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1) by Angie Thomas [African-American]
Happily Ever Afters (Happily Ever Afters #1) by Elise Bryant [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon [African-American] [Plus Size]
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress [African-American]
Hey, Brown Girl by Janay Harden [African-American]
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert [Black British] [Mental Illness] [Plus Size] [LGBT+]
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery [African-American] [LGBT+]
Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [Mental Illness]
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo [African: Sudanese]
The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge [African-American]
Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei [African: Zimbabwean]
House Party edited by Justin A. Reynolds [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Brazilian, Jewish, and Liberian]
Hot Girl by Dream Jordan [African-American]
How It Went Down (How It Went Down #1) by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [African-American]
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
How to Live Without You by Sarah Everett [African: Nigerian]
How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta [African: Nigerian]
Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina [African-American]
I Rise by Marie Arnold [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest [African-American]
If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann [African-American] [LGBT+] [Plus Size]
If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Puerto Rican] [LGBT+]
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal [African-American]
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Jackpot by Nic Stone [African-American]
Julie and the Phantoms: Whatever Happens (Julie and the Phantoms #1) by Candace Buford [African-American]
The Jump by Brittney Morris [African-American]
Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomas [African-American] [LGBT+]
Kneel by Candace Buford [African-American]
Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather [Afro-Caribbean: Bahamian]
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Plus Size]
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann [African-American] [LGBT+]
Liccle Bit (South Crongton Trilogy #1) by Alex Wheatle [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Like Home by Louisa Onomé [African: Nigerian]
Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia [African-American]
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert [African-American] [LGBT+]
Looking for Grace by Pamela Varnado [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
Louder Than Words by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American]
A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison [African-American]
Love in 280 Characters or Less by Ravynn K. Stringfield [African-American]
Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello [African: Nigerian]
Love is Beautiful When in Bloom by Lara T. Kareem [African: Nigerian]
Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Plus Size]
Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle [African-American]
Love Requires Chocolate by Ravynn K. Stringfield [African-American]
Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke [African-American]
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
Lux: The New Girl (Flyy Girls #1) by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American]
The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa Onomé [African: Nigerian]
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee [Afro-Mixed: Black, Asian (unspecified, Latinx (unspecified))] [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Puerto Rican, Japanese, Caucasian] [LGBT+]
The Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon Richardson [African-American]
The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [African-American] [LGBT+]
Money Hungry (Raspberry Hill #1) by Sharon G. Flake [African-American]
Monster (Monster #1) by Walter Dean Myers [African-American]
Musical Youth by Joanne C. Hillhouse [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan and Barbudan]
Muted by Tami Charles [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
My Love, My Love or the Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin [African-American]
My Week with Him by Joya Goffney [African-American]
Nav's Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis [African-American] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
NerdCrush by Alisha Emrich [African-American]
Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
No One Here Is Lonely by Sarah Everett [African: Nigerian]
Not About a Boy by Myah Hollis [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles [African-American]
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American] [LGBT+]
Now That I've Found You by Kristina Forest [African-American]
Odd One Out by Nic Stone [African-American] [LGBT+]
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett [African-American] [LGBT+] [Plus Size]
Off Track by Tamika Gibson [African-American]
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas [African-American]
One Carefree Day by Whitney Amazeen [African-American] [Mental Illness]
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite [Afro-Mixed: Haitian and African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [LGBT+]
Only for the Holidays by Abiola Bello [African: Nigerian]
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You (The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You #1) by Lily Anderson [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Puerto Rican (other ethnicity unknown)]
Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse [African-American]
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds [African-American]
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons [African-American] [LGBT+]
Perfect Shot by Debbie Rigaud [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson [African-American] [Plus Size]
Plain City by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
Play the Game by Charlene Allen [African-American]
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Pride by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Mixed: Haitian and Dominican]
Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
Pritty (Pritty #1) by Keith F. Miller Jr. [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu [Black British]
Prom Babies by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [LGBT+]
Promposal by RaeChell Garrett [African-American]
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [African-American]
Push by Sapphire [African-American] [Plus Size]
Reggie & Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Cacasian (unspecified)] [African-American] [Chronic Illness]
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee [African-American]
The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Rhythm & Muse by India Hill Brown [African-American]
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
Roman and Jewel by Dana L. Davis [African-American]
Running With Lions by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
Salt the Water by Candice Iloh [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Serendipity edited by Marissa Meyer [African-American]
Seton Girls by Charlene Thomas [African-American]
Seven Minutes in Candyland by Brian Wasson [African-American]
Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The Skin I'm In (The Skin I’m In #1) by Sharon G. Flake [African-American]
Slay by Brittney Morris [African-American]
Smash It! by Francina Simone [African-American] [Plus Size]
Snow in Love by Melissa de la Cruz, Nic Stone, Aimee Friedman, and Kasie West [African-American]
So Not The Drama (Del Rio Bay Clique #1) by Paula Chase [African-American]
Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess [African-American]
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett [African: Nigerian]
Somebody That I Used to Know by Dana L. Davis [African-American]
Something Like Right by H.D. Hunter [African-American]
Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo [African: Nigerian]
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: (unspecified)]
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus [Afro-Mixed: Trinidadian and Indian] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [LGBT+]
Study Break: 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation edited by Aashna Avachat [African-American] [LGBT+]
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn [African: Swazi] [Afro-Mixed: Caucasian and Black (both unspecified)] [Mental Illness]
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee [African-American]
Swing by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess [African-American]
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance edited by Bethany C. Morrow [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Puerto Rican and Dominican]
Tangleroot by Kalela Williams [African-American]
There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia [African-American]
Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles [African-American] [LGBT+]
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
This Is My America by Kim Johnson [African-American]
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow [Black British] [LGBT+]
This Side of Home by Renée Watson [African-American]
Through It All by Giselle Mills [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis [African-American]
True True by Don P. Hooper [African-American]
Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Turning by Joy L. Smith [African-American] [Physical Disability]
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
Twice as Perfect by Louisa Onomé [African: Nigerian]
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles [African-American]
Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson [African-American]
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L Browne [African-American]
The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis [African-American]
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Untwine by Edwidge Danicat [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan [African-American] [Plus Size]
We Are the Scribes by Randi Pink [African-American]
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [LGBT+]
We Don't Have Time for This by Brianna Craft [African-American]
We Weren't Looking to Be Found by Stephanie Kuehn [African-American] [Mental Illness]
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum [African-American] [LGBT+]
What She Missed by Liara Tamani [African-American]
What We Don't Talk About by Charlot Kristensen [Afro-Mixed: Black Biracial]
What's Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
When It All Syncs Up (When It All Syncs Up #1) by Maya Ameyaw [African: Ghanaian] [Mental Illness]
When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni Davis [African-American] [African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [Mental Illness]
When the Vibe Is Right by Sarah Dass [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American]
Where Was Goodbye? by Janice Lynn Mather [Afro-Caribbean: Bahamian]
Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [LGBT+]
Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Why We Fly by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal [African-American]
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Puerto Rican]
Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee [African-American]
The Wrong Kind of Weird by James Ramos [African-American] [LGBT+]
You Don't Know Me But I Know You by Rebecca Barrow [Black British] [LGBT+]
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen [African-American]
Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Zyla and Kai by Kristina Forest [African American] [Mental Illness]
Historical Fiction –
African Town by Irene Latham and Charles Waters [African-American]
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen [African-American]
American Ace by Marilyn Nelson [African-American]
Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink [African-American]
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid [Afro-Caribbean: Antiguan]
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
Aya (Aya #1) by Marguerite Abouet [African: Ivorian]
Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles [African-American]
The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson [African-American]
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper [African-American] [African: Ghanaian]
The Davenports (The Davenports #1) by Krystal Marquis [African-American]
The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah [African: Ghanaian]
Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1) by Justina Ireland [African-American]
Dream Country by Shannon Gibney [African: Liberian] [African-American]
Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney [African-American] [LGBT+]
For All Time by Shanna Miles [African-American] [African: Malian]
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith [African-American]
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Danish]
Girls Like Us by Randi Pink [African-American]
Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden [African-American]
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen [African-American]
The Land (Logans #1) by Mildred D. Taylor [African-American]
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis [African-American]
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Rock and the River (The Rock and the River #1) by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [African-American]
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland [African-American]
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead [African-American]
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden [African-American]
So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow [African-American]
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
A Wish After Midnight (Genna & Judah #1) by Zetta Elliott [African-American]
Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Mystery/Thriller/Horror –
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé [Black British] [LGBT+]
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology edited by Circe Moskowitz [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [Black British] [LGBT+]
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [African-American]
And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow [Black British] [LGBT+]
Better Must Come by Desmond Hall [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Black Girl Survives in This One edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Latinx: (unspecified)]
The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman [African-American]
The Black Queen by Jumata Emill [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington [African-American] [LGBT+]
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado [Afro-Latinx: (unspecified)]
Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn [African-American]
Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow [African-American]
The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis [African-American]
Darling by K. Ancrum [African-American] [LGBT+]
Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis [African-American] [LGBT+]
Everyone's Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
Fake ID by Lamar Giles [African-American]
The Getaway by Lamar Giles [African-American]
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [African-American]
His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea [African-American]
I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark by Riss M. Neilson [Afro-Mixed: Cape Verdean, Philipino, and Italian]
Invisible Son by Kim Johnson [African-American]
It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Jackal by Erin E. Adams [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean [Black British] [LGBT+]
The Marvelous by Claire Kann [African-American] [LGBT+]
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [African-American] [Learning Disability]
Monstrous by Jessica Lewis [African-American] [LGBT+]
Murder of Crows (Lethal Lit #1) by K. Ancrum [African-American] [LGBT+]
Out of Body by Nia Davenport [African-American]
Perfect Score by Angelica Monai [African-American]
Pointe by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks [African-American]
Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu [African: South African]
The Return (The Chroniclers, #1) by Nenny May [African-American]
The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra [African-American]
Spin by Lamar Giles [African-American]
Something Kindred by Ciera Burch [African-American]
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass [African-American] [LGBT+]
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington [African-American] [LGBT+]
There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things #1) by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton [African-American]
The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis [African-American]
Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill [African-American]
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn [African-American]
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn [African: Swazi]
When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris [African-American]
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé [Black British] [LGBT+]
The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker [African-American] [Black British] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian] [LGBT+]
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron [African-American] [LGBT+]
Non-Fiction –
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates [African-American]
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama [African-American]
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Black Internet Effect by Shavone Charles [African-American]
Colorblind: A Story of Racism by Johnathan Harris [African-American]
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford [African-American]
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan - Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh]
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood by Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Chanel Craft Tanner [African-American] [LGBT+]
Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth by Angie Thomas [African-American]
The Girl I Am, Was and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney [African: Liberian]
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration edited by Rose Brock [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta [African: Congolese]
How Do I Draw These Memories? by Jonell Joshua [African-American]
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone [African-American]
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones, Dave Isay, and Lloyd Newman [African-American]
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [African-American]
Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens by Luvvie Ajayi Jones [African: Nigerian]
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar [African-American]
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi [African-American]
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes [African-American]
You Are More Than Magic by Minda Harts [African-American]
Young Revolutionary: A Teen's Guide to Activism by Chanice Lee [African-American]
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri [African-American]
Poetry Anthology –
And We Rise by Erica Martin [African-American]
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson [African-American]
Dark Testament: Blackout Poems by Crystal Simone Smith [African-American]
For Every One by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith [African-American] [LGBT+]
Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology edited by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, and Taylor Byas [African-American][Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott [African-American]
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur [Afro-Mixed: Gambian, Indian, and Sri Lankan]
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [LGBT+]
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson [African-American]
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Dystopia/Paranormal –
Adorned by Chi: Volume One by Jacque Aye [African: Nigerian]
Akata Witch (Akata Witch #1) by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
All That It Ever Meant by Blessing Musariri [African: Zimbabwean]
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis [African-American]
Batgirl: Possession by Jade Adia [African-American]
Beasts Made of Night (Beasts Made of Night #1) by Tochi Onyebuchi [African: Nigerian]
Beasts of Prey (Beasts of Prey #1) by Ayana Gray [African-American]
The Belles (The Belles #1) by Dhonielle Clayton [African-American]
Bemused by Farrah Rochon [African-American]
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Black Panther [2016] #1) by Ta-Nehisi Coates [African-American]
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda edited by Jesse J. Holland [African-American] [Black British] [African: Nigerian]
The Black Veins (Dead Magic #1) by Ashia Monet [African-American] [LGBT+]
A Blade So Black (A Blade So Black #1) by L.L. McKinney [African-American]
The Blazing Star (The Blazing Star #1) by Imani Josey [African-American]
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams [African-American]
Blood Debts (Blood Debts #1) by Terry J. Benton-Walker [African-American] [LGBT+]
Blood Like Magic (Blood Like Magic #1) by Liselle Sambury [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Blood Scion (Blood Scion #1) by Deborah Falaye [African: Nigerian]
The Blood Trials (The Blood Gift Duology #1) by N.E. Davenport [African-American]
The Bones of Ruin (The Bones of Ruin #1) by Sarah Raughley [Black Canadian]
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi [African: Nigerian]
Chaos & Flame (Chaos & Flame #1) by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland [African-American]
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron [African-American] [LGBT+]
Cosmic Callisto Caprica & The Missing Rings Of Saturn by Sophia Chester [African-American] [Physical Disability]
Coriander's Light (Kelyon Lights #1) by MJ Vaughn [African: Nigerian] [African-American]
Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron [African-American]
Daughters of Nri (The Return of the Earth Mother #1) by Reni K Amayo [African: Nigerian]
Daughters of Oduma by Moses Ose Utomi (Sisters of the Mud #1) [African: Nigerian]
Deep in Providence by Riss M. Neilson [Afro-Mixed: Cape Verdean, Filipino, and Italian] [LGBT+]
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Destroyer #1 (Victor LaValle's Destroyer #1) by Victor LaValle [African: Ugandan]
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh [African: Nigerian]
Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus #1) by Nicky Drayden [African-American] [LGBT+]
Eve, Vol. #1 (Eve #1) by Victor LaValle [African: Ugandan]
Excellence #1 (Excellence #1) by Brandon Thomas [Afro-Caribbean: Grenadian]
Far Sector (Far Sector #1) by N.K. Jemisin [African-American]
Fate of Flames (Effigies #1) by Sarah Raughley [Black Canadian]
Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun [African: Nigerian]
Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs and Shawneé Gibbs [African-American]
The Gifted Society by Tatiana White [African-American]
The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) by Namina Forna [African: Sierra Leonean]
Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys and Andrew Weiner [Afro-Mixed: African-American, Italian, Irish, and Scottish]
Given by Nandi Taylor [Afro-Caribbean: (unspecified)]
The Goddess Twins by Yodassa Williams [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls #1) by Charlotte Nicole Davis [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Grimoire of Grave Fates edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen [Afro-Mixed: Brazilian, Jewish, and Liberian] [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Half-Class by Kayvion Lewis [Unspecified Diaspora]
Hazel and Gray by Nic Stone [African-American]
House of Marionne (House of Marionne #1) by J. Elle [African-American]
How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [LGBT+]
Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist #1) by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
Jake in the Box by Ryan Douglass [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Kindred by Alechia Dow [African-American] [LGBT+] [Plus Size]
King of Dead Things by Nevin Holness [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Kingdom of Souls (Kingdom of Souls #1) by Rena Barron [African-American]
Legendborn (Legendborn #1) by Tracy Deonn [African-American]
Lionheart Girl by Yaba Badoe [African: Ghanaian]
The Little Mermaid: Against the Tide by J. Elle [African-American]
Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds #1) by Analeigh Sbrana [African-American]
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride [African-American]
The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk [Black Canadian]
Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Puerto Rican]
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (Miles Morales Novels #1) by Jason Reynolds [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Puerto Rican]
Monarch Rising by Harper Glenn [African-American]
Niobe: She Is Life by Sebastian A. Jones and Amandla Stenberg [African-American]
Noughts & Crosses (Noughts and Crosses #1) by Malorie Blackman [Black British]
Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A Haynes [African-American]
Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney [African-American]
Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
On a Clear Day by Walter Dean Myers [African-American]
Pet (Pet #1) by Akwaeke Emezi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
A Phoenix Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Puebloan] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Korean] [LGBT+]
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste [African-American]
Raybearer (Raybearer #1l ) by Jordan Ifueko [African: Nigerian]
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
A River of Royal Blood (A River of Royal Blood #1) by Amanda Joy [African-American]
Shattered Midnight (The Mirror #2) by Dhonielle Clayton [African-American]
Shuri (Shuri [2018] #1) by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1) by Gabi Burton [African-American]
(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea #1) by Natasha Bowen [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Welsh]
Sleep Like Death by Kalynn Bayron [African-American] [LGBT+]
So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors #1) by Kamilah Cole [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water #1) by Bethany C. Morrow [African-American]
A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow [African-American] [LGBT+]
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1) by Roseanne A. Brown [African: Ghanaian]
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow [African-American] [LGBT+]
Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [LGBT+] [Plus Size]
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson [African-American]
Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
Survive The Dome by Kosoko Jackson [African-American] [LGBT+]
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. Eskew [African-American]
Tempest by K. Ibura [African-American]
That Self-Same Metal (Forge & Fracture Saga #1) by Brittany N. Williams [African-American] [LGBT+]
This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart #1) by Kalynn Bayron [African-American] [LGBT+]
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson [Afro-Mixed: Afro-Puerto Rican (other ethnicity unknown)]
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton [African-American] [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
The Upper World (The Upper World #1) by Femi Fadugba [African: Togolese]
Wakanda Forever by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
War Girls (War Girls #1) by Tochi Onyebuchi [African: Nigerian] [LGBT+]
We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride [African-American] [Mental Illness]
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony #1) by J. Elle [African-American]
Witches Steeped in Gold (Witches Steeped in Gold #1) by Ciannon Smart [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Witchery by S. Isabelle [African-American] [LGBT+]
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson [African-American]
Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
MIDDLE GRADE
Contemporary/Literary Fiction/Magical Realism –
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson [African-American]
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Greek and Jamaican] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian and Tobagonian] [African: Nigerian]
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes [African-American]
Blended by Sharon M. Draper [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Black and Caucasian (ethnicity unknown)]
Caprice by Coe Booth [African-American]
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)]
Clouds Over California by Karyn Parsons [Afro-Mixed: African-American, English, and Welsh]
The Crossover (The Crossover #1) by Kwame Alexander [African-American]
Curlfriends: New in Town by Sharee Miller [African-American]
Darnell Rock Reporting by Walter Dean Myers [African-American]
Gamerville by Johnnie Christmas [African-American]
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée [African-American]
Fast Pitch by Nic Stone [African-American]
Finding Your Faith (Yasmin Peace #1) by Stephanie Perry Moore [African-American]
Flying Through Water by Mamle Wolo [African: Ghanaian]
For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1) by Janae Marks [African-American]
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams [African-American]
Ghost (Track #1) by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
The Harlem Charade by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley [African-American]
Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes [African-American]
If You Read This by Kereen Getten [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith [African-American]
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth [African-American]
King and the Dragon Flies by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+]
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer (A Legendary Alston Boys Adventure #1) by Lamar Giles [African-American]
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
Love Like Sky (Love Like Sky #1) by Leslie C. Youngblood [African-American]
Mango Delight by Fracaswell Hyman [African-American]
Marcus Makes a Movie by Kevin Hart [African-American]
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
New Kid (New Kid #1) by Jerry Craft [African-American]
One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson [African-American] [African: Senegalese]
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert [African-American]
Paradise on Fire by Jewell Parker Rhodes [African-American]
Partly Cloudy by Tanita S. Davis [African-American]
Pizza My Heart: A Wish Novel by Rhiannon Richardson [African-American]
President of the Whole Fifth Grade (Brianna Justice #1) by Sherri Winston [African-American]
The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett [African: Nigerian]
Project Middle School (Hope #1) by Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian] [African-American]
The Science of Friendship by Tanita S. Davis [African-American]
Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston [African-American] [Mental Illness]
Simon B. Rhymin' (Simon B. Rhymin' #1) by Dwayne Reed [African-American]
So Done (So Done #1) by Paula Chase [African-American]
A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks [African-American]
Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson [African-American] [Plus Size]
Something to Say by Lisa Moore Ramée [African-American]
Sparkle by Lakita Wilson [African-American]
Spirit Week Showdown (The Magnificent Mya Tibbs #1) by Crystal Allen [African-American]
Squad Goals by Erika J. Kendrick [African-American]
Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas [African-American]
Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles [African-American]
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican] [LGBT+]
Twins by Varian Johnson [African-American]
Ways to Make Sunshine (Ryan Hart #1) by Renée Watson [African-American]
What Momma Left Me by Renée Watson [African-American]
When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Mental Illness]
Wishing on a Star (The Cheetah Girls #1) by Deborah Gregory [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Caucasian (unspecified)] [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Italian]
Historical Fiction –
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson [African-American]
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander [African-American]
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson [African-American]
The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicles #1) by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
How High the Moon by Karyn Parsons [African-American]
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Like Vanessa by Tami Charles [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It by Andrea Davis Pinkney [African-American]
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis [African-American]
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters #1) by Rita Williams-Garcia [African-American]
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson [African-American]
Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Unstoppable Octobia May by Sharon G. Flake [African-American]
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis [African-American]
With the Might of Angels (Dear America) by Andrea Davis Pinkney [African-American]
Mystery/Thriller/Horror –
Amber Undercover by Em Norry [Black British]
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
The Creepening of Dogwood House by Eden Royce [African-American]
Finch House by Ciera Burch [African-American]
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon [African-American]
It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell [African-American]
Nightmare King by Daka Hermon [African-American]
The Secret Dead Club by Karen Strong [African-American]
Non-Fiction –
African Icons: Ten People Who Built a Continent by Tracey Baptiste [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [African]
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day by Kathlyn J. Kirkwood [African-American]
A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero [African-American]
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian]
Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963 by Sharon Robinson [African-American]
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals [African-American]
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom: The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents by Whit Taylor and Kazimir Lee [African-American]
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan [African-American]
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano [African: Nigerian]
Reach for the Skai: How to Inspire, Empower, and Clapback by Skai Jackson [African-American]
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson [African-American]
She Persisted: Oprah Winfrey by Renée Watson and Chelsea Clinton [African-American]
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [African-American]
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill [African-American]
Tales of the Talented Tenth: Bass Reeves (Tales of the Talented Tenth #1) by Joel Christian Gill [African-American]
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell [Afro-Mixed: Black Biracial]
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho [African: Nigerian]
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson [African: Somali]
Poetry Anthology–
Curls by Ruth Forman [African-American]
Glow by Ruth Forman [African-American]
Sunset Flips to Morning Glory by Toni Jo [African-American]
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman [African-American]
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Dystopia/Paranormal –
Abeni's Song by P. Djèlí Clark [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian and Tobagonian]
Amari and the Night Brothers (Amari and the Night Brothers #1) by B.B. Alston [African-American]
Arcade and the Triple T Token (The Coin Slot Chronicles #1) by Rashad Jennings [African-American]
Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith [African-American]
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry [African-American] [LGBT+]
Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag #1) by Zetta Elliott [African-American]
Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson [African-American] [LGBT+]
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown [African-American]
The Gatekeeper's Staff: An Old Gods Story (TJ Young & The Orishas #1) by Antoine Bandele [African-American]
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes [African-American]
Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
The Hero of Numbani by Nicky Drayden [African-American]
Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor [African: Nigerian]
It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit (It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit #1) by Justin A. Reynolds [African-American]
Izzy Hawthorne: Destiny Awaits by Bethany Baptiste [African-American]
Jaden Powers and the Inheritance Magic by Jamar J. Perry [African-American]
Josephine Against the Sea by Shakirah Bourne [Afro-Caribbean: Bajan]
The Jumbies (The Jumbies #1) by Tracey Baptiste [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow [African-American] [LGBT+]
Just South of Home by Karen Strong [African-American]
Last Gate of the Emperor (Last Gate of the Emperor #1) by Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen [African-American]
The Little Prince by Inua Ellams [African: Nigerian]
The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton [African-American]
Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron [African-American]
Moonflower by Kacen Callender [Afro-Caribbean: U.S. Virgin Islander] [LGBT+] [Mental Illness]
The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables #1) by Angie Thomas [African-American]
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun (Onyeka #1) by Tọlá Okogwu [African: Nigerian]
Ophie's Ghosts by Justina Ireland [African-American]
Root Magic by Eden Royce [African-American]
Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion by K. Tempest Bradford [African-American]
Secrets of Valhalla (Secrets of Valhalla #1) by Jasmine Richards [Black British]
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting (Serwa Boateng #1) by Roseanne A. Brown [African: Ghanaian]
Shadows of Sherwood (Robyn Hoodlum #1) by Kekla Magoon [African: Cameroonian]
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1) by Nic Stone [African-American]
Speculation by Nisi Shawl [African-American]
A Taste Of Magic (Park Row Magic Academy #1) by J. Elle [African-American]
Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky (Tristan Strong #1) by Kwame Mbalia [African-American]
The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers #1) by Kalynn Bayron [African-American]
The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Zo And The Forest Of Secrets by Alake Pilgrim [Afro-Caribbean: Unspecified]
CHILDREN’S
Contemporary/Literary Fiction/Magical Realism –
The Adventures of Qai Qai by Serena Williams [African-American]
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Always with You, Always with Me by Kelly Rowland and Jessica McKay [African-American]
Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian]
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi [African-American]
Beach Hair by Ashley Woodfolk [African-American]
Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Amanda Redd [African-American]
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes [African-American]
Big by Vashti Harrison [African-American] [Plus Size]
Bigmama's by Donald Crews [African-American]
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy [African-American]
Bluish by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
Bree's Beautiful Braids by Kimberly P. Johnson [African-American]
The Bronx Is My Home by Alyssa Reynoso-Morris [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican and Puerto Rican]
Brown Boy Joy by Thomishia Booker [African-American]
Brown Sugar Baby by Kevin Lewis [African-American]
The Buried Bones Mystery (Clubhouse Mysteries #1) by Sharon M. Draper [African-American]
C Is for Country by Lil Nas X [African-American]
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington [African-American]
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs [African-American]
Creative Callie's Birthday Dress by Clover E [African-American]
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes [African-American]
Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen [African-American]
Darryl's Dream by Darryl "DMC" McDaniels [African-American]
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Don’t Call Me Grandma by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson [African-American]
Don't Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table by Vanessa Brantley-Newton [African-American]
Every Little Thing: Based on the song 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley adapted by Cedella Marley Booker [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Ezra's BIG Shabbat Question by Aviva L. Brown [Afro-Mixed: African-American and Jewish]
First There Was Me, Then There Was You by Yvonne Sewankambo [African: Ugandan]
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian]
Girl Dad by Sean Williams [African-American]
Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons [African-American]
Grandma’s Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton [African-American]
Grandma's Records (Grandma's Records #1) by Eric Velásquez [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Puerto Rican]
Hair Like Mine (Kids Like Mine #1) by LaTashia M. Perry [African-American]
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry [African-American]
Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel [African-American]
Happy Hair by Mechal Renee Roe [African-American]
Happy to Be Nappy by bell hooks [African-American]
Heart Picked: Elizabeth's Adoption Tale by Sara Crutcher [African-American]
Honeysmoke: A Story of Finding Your Color by Monique Fields [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Black Biracial]
Hurry, Kate, or You'll Be Late! by Janice N. Harrington [African-American]
I Am Amazing! by Alissa Holder [African-American]
I Am Enough by Grace Byers [African-American]
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers [African-American]
I Got the Christmas Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison [African-American]
I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison [African-American]
I Got the School Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison [African-American]
I Love My Beautiful Hair by Elissa Wentt [African-American]
I'm Growing Great by Mechal Renee Roe [African-American]
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper [African-American]
Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan [African-American]
Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton [African-American]
The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes [African-American]
The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale by Charly Palmer [African-American]
Locs, Not Dreads by Tonya Abari [African-American]
The Magician's Hat by Malcolm Mitchell [African-American]
Marley and the Family Band by Cedella Marley and Tracey Baptiste [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican] [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
The McClure Twins: Make It Fashion by Ava McClure and Alexis McClure [African-American]
Mixed Me! by Taye Diggs [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Black Biracial]
Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera [African-American]
The Me I Choose To Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley [African-American]
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow [African-American]
A Mother's Love: The E.R.B. to My Soul by Kimberly Jones [African-American]
My Baby Loves Valentine's Day by Jabari Asim [African-American]
My Beautiful Curly Hair by Kiana Holder and Arya Holder [Unspecified Diaspora]
My Friend! by Taye Diggs [African-American]
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera [African-American]
My Hair Is Like the Sun by St. Clair Detrick-Jules [Afro-Caribbean: (unspecified)]
My Mommy Medicine by Edwidge Danticat [Afro-Caribbean: Hatian]
My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel [African: Tanzanian]
My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World by Malcolm Mitchell [African-American]
Nana Akua Goes to School by Tricia Elam Walker [African-American] [African: Ghanaian]
A Night Out with Mama by Quvenzhane Wallis [African-American]
Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland [African-American]
Nikki & Deja (Nikki & Deja #1) by Karen English [African-American]
No Mirrors in My Nana's House by Ysaye M. Barnwell [African-American]
Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin [African-American]
Octopus Stew by Eric Velásquez [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Puerto Rican]
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry [African-American]
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy [African-American]
Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Plum Fantastic (Sugar Plum Ballerinas #1) by Whoopi Goldberg [African-American]
The Queen of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes [African-American]
Remember to Dream, Ebere by Cynthia Erivo [African: Nigerian]
Remember WHO you are by Kenyatta Maxwell Blake [African-American]
The Ring Bearer by Floyd Cooper [African-American]
Santa in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
Saturday by Oge Mora [African-American]
Shady Baby by Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade [African-American]
Snow Flower and the Panther by Fleurie Leclercq [African: Cameroonian]
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth [African-American]
Stacey's Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams [African-American]
Stella Keeps the Sun Up by Clothilde Ewing [African-American]
Stella's Stellar Hair by Yesenia Moises [Afro-Latinx: (unspecified)]
A Story about Afiya by James Berry [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Summer Is Here by Renée Watson [African-American]
The Talk by Alicia D. Williams [African-American]
Tanya's Reunion by Valerie Flournoy [African-American]
Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons [African-American]
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora [African-American]
Together for Kwanzaa by Juwanda G. Ford [African-American]
Trick-or-Treating in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican and Trinidadian]
True Friends (Carmen Browne #1) by Stephanie Perry Moore [African-American]
Two Naomis (Two Naomis #1) by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Jamaican]
Under the Same Sun by Sharon Robinson [African: Tanzanian]
Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
We Are Here by Tami Charles [African-American]
Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union [African-American]
What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack [African-American]
When Mama Braids My Hair by Monique Duncan [African-American]
Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne [African-American]
Historical Fiction –
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson [African-American]
In the Land of Milk and Honey by Joyce Carol Thomas [African-American]
Meet Addy: An American Girl (American Girl: Addy #1) by Connie Rose Porter [African-American]
Meet Claudie: An American Girl (American Girl: Claudie #1) by Brit Bennett [African-American]
Ninth Ward (The Louisiana Girls Trilogy #1) by Jewell Parker Rhodes [African-American]
No Ordinary Sound: A Melody Classic (American Girl: Melody #1) by Denise Lewis Patrick [African-American]
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
We March by Shane W. Evans [African-American]
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson [African-American]
Mystery/Thriller/Horror –
Non-Fiction –
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson [African-American]
The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez [Unspecified Diaspora] [African-American]
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson [African-American]
Because Claudette by Tracey Baptiste [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian] [African-American]
Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome [African-American]
Bold and Blessed: How to Stay True to Yourself and Stand Out from the Crowd by Trinitee Stokes [African-American]
Bold Words from Black Women: Inspiration and Truths from 50 Extraordinary Leaders Who Helped Shape Our World by Tamara Pizzoli [African-American]
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson [African-American]
Brick by Brick by Charles R. Smith Jr. [African-American]
Bunheads by Misty Copeland [African-American]
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History by Charlotte Nebres [African-American]
Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome [African-American]
Cicely Tyson by Renée Watson [African-American]
A Day for Rememberin': The First Memorial Day by Leah Henderson [African-American]
Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison [African-American]
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote by Alice Faye Duncan [African-American]
Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams (Who Did It First?) by Jay Leslie [African-American]
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian]
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes [African-American] [Afro-Mixed: Jamaican and Indian]
Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All by Tami Charles [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [African-American]
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison [African-American]
Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison [African-American]
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed [African: Somali] [African-American]
The Magical Girl's Guide to Life: Find Your Inner Power, Fight Everyday Evil, and Save the Day with Self-Care by Jacque Aye [African: Nigerian]
Maya's Song by Renée Watson [African-American]
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan [African-American]
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd [African-American]
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden [African-American]
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan - Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh]
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard [African-American]
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan [African-American]
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book by Keila V. Dawson [African-American]
The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi [Afro-Caribbean: Haitian] [African: (unspecified)]
Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim [African-American]
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe [African-American]
RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridges' First Day of School by Irène Cohen-Janca [African: Tunisian]
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney [African-American]
Shirley Chisholm is a Verb! by Veronica Chambers [Afro-Latinx: Panamanian] [African-American]
Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons [African-American]
Somebody to Love: The Story of Valerie June's Sweet Little Baby Banjolele by Valerie June Hockett [African-American]
Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-ins by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich [Afro-Mixed: Nigerian and Jamaican] [African-American]
Stacey's Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams [African-American]
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, and Sonja Cherry-Paul [African-American]
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper [African-American]
Tani's New Home: A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness in America by Tanitoluwa Adewumi [African: Nigerian]
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds [African-American]
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges [African-American]
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks [African-American]
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews [African-American]
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
Who Did It First? 50 Politicians, Activists, and Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the World (Who Did It First?) by Jay Leslie [African-American]
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History by Schele Williams [African-American]
Poetry Anthology –
Black Girl Magic by Mahogany L. Browne [African-American]
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas [African-American]
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman [African-American]
I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni [African-American]
In Your Hands by Carole Boston Weatherford [African-American]
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood by Tameka Fryer Brown [African-American]
Ocharlyie's Rhymes from the Niger: A Collection of Nursery Rhymes for the Nigerian Child by Oribi Charles [African: Nigerian]
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth [African-American]
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People) by Langston Hughes [African-American]
Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems by Traci Dant [African-American]
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood [African-American] [Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latinx: Dominican]
Sci-fi/Fantasy/Dystopia/Paranormal –
The Adventures of Jada, Attack of Lady Gluten (The Adventures of Jada #1) by Sherwyn Williams and Anastasia Tomkin [African-American]
The Little Mermaid: Make A Splash by Ashley Franklin [Unspecified Diaspora]
Mermaid and Pirate by Tracey Baptiste [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o [Afro-Mixed: Kenyan and Mexican] [African: Kenyan]
Twintuition: Double Vision (Twintuition #1) by Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry [Afro-Mixed: Bahamian and Irish]
Zandi's Song by Zandile Ndhlovu [African: South African]
FAIRY TALES/FOLKLORE
African Folktales edited by Roger D. Abrahams [African]
African American Folktales edited by Roger D. Abrahams [African-American]
Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale by Marjuan Canady [Afro-Mixed: Trinidadian and African-American]
“Cricket, the Fortune-Teller” found in The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales retold by Neil Philip [Afro-Caribbean: Trinidadian]
Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
The Girl Who Married a Skull: and Other African Stories (Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales) retold by Kel McDonald [African]
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales retold by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
John Henry by Julius Lester [African-American]
“Man-Crow” found in The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales retold by Neil Philip [Afro-Caribbean: Jamaican]
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe [African-American] [African: Zimbabwean]
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston [African-American]
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton [African-American]
“The Shape Changer” found in The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales retold by Neil Philip [African: Kenyan]
“Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces” found in The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales retold by Neil Philip [African: Cape Verdean]
“The Twin Brothers” found in The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales retold by Neil Philip [African: Congolese - Zaïrian]
Why the Sky is Far Away: A Nigerian Folk Tale retold by Mary-Joan Gerson [African: Nigerian]