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by Octavia Butler
Fiction
The first science fiction novel written by a Black woman. Dana keeps finding herself transported from 1976 California back to a Maryland plantation just in time to save a young enslaver.
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by Toni Morrison
Fiction
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by her years of enslavement.
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by Attica Locke
Fiction
Black Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who’s gone missing – but it’s the boy’s family of white supremacists who are his real target
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by Alice Walker
Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence.
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by Maya Angelou
Nonfiction
A modern American classic as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself, capturing the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right
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by Mahogany L. Browne, with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood
Nonfiction
Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. This poetry collection reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination, empathy, and acceptance to speaking out.
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by Colson Whitehead
Fiction Nonfiction
What if the Underground Railroad were not a metaphor—if engineers and conductors operating a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil?
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by Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction
A masterwork of reporting chronicling the decades-long migration of three Black citizens who fled the American South for Northern and Western cities, in search of a better life.
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by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction
A powerful, raw, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama battling depression, addiction and grief with the powers of faith, science, religion, and love.
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by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Fiction
When two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing, one begins to feel dangerously unwelcome.
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by Javaka Steptoe
Nonfiction
Award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe’s vivid text and bold artwork echoes Basquiat’s and introduces readers to the powerful message that art doesn’t always have to be neat or clean–and definitely not inside the lines–to be beautiful.
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by Gwendolyn Hooks
Nonfiction
Biography of Vivien Thomas, an African-American surgical technician who pioneered the procedure used to treat babies with a heart defect known as ‘blue baby syndrome.
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by Barack Obama
Nonfiction
In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world.
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by Mikaila Ulmer with Brin Stevens
Nonfiction
Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer shares her advice for life and business.
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by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction
Two gifted teens in love are parted when they flee the military dictatorship of Nigeria, one to England and one to America; their reunion comes 15 years later.
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by Kwame Alexander
Nonfiction
The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
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by Walter Dean Myers
Nonfiction
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers celebrate the freedom dream that is America: our struggles, our ideals, and our hope that we can live up to them.
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by Tayari Jones
Fiction
Promising upper middle class newlyweds Celestial and Roy are ripped apart when Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a rape his wife knows he didn’t commit.
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by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Nonfiction
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
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by James McBride
Fiction
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon shuffles into the courtyard of a Brooklyn housing project and publicly shoots the project’s drug dealer.
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by Margo Jefferson
Nonfiction
A meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both.
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