“Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi
“Dread Nation” by Justina Ireland
“Finding Yvonne” by Brandy Colbert
“Tyler Johnson Was Here” by Jay Coles
“The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas
“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs
“Freedom Dreams” by Robin D.G. Kelley
“The Common Wind” by Julius S. Scott
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” Malcolm X
“Assata: An Autobiography” Assata Shakur
“Between the World and Me” Ta-Nehisi Coates
“This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
“Skin Folk” by Nalo Hopkinson
“Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed
“Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Dark Matter” by Sheree R. Thomas
“The Kishi” by Antoine Bandele
“Bingo Love” by Terrence Sage
“Rise of the Black Panther” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Spider-Man” by Brian Michael Bendis
“Abbott” by Saladin Ahmed
“The American Way” by John Ridley
“Brother to Brother” by Essex Hemphill
“Under the Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta
“Burnt Men” by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
“Helium” by Rudy Francisco
“Bestiary” by Donika Kelly
“How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars” by Alysia Nicole Harris
“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes
“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde
“Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
“Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
“We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
Honorable Mentions by People in the Notes
“The Skin I’m In” by Sharon G. Flake
“A Mercy” by Toni Morrison
“The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson
“All American Boys” by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds
“Just Mercy” by Brian Stevenson
“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by M.K. Jemisin
“Piecing Me Together” by Renee Watson
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