Complete list of Black literature recommendations by Eunice Esomonu February 26, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Photo Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Book Title Author Year Published Genre Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson Palestine And The Foundations Of A Movement Angela Daivs 2016 Non-Fiction Answering The Call: An Autobiography Of The Modern Struggle To End Racial Discrimination In America Nathaniel R Jones 2016 Non-Fiction Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest Intervention Reflection Fernando Orejuela Stephanie Shonekan 2018 Non-Fiction The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 2010 Non-Fiction This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa 1983 Non-Fiction The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race Jesmyn Ward 2016 Non-Fiction Fourth City: Essays From The Prison In America Doran Larson 2013 Non-Fiction The White Problem In America the editors of Ebony 1966 Non-Fiction Too Much Schooling Too Little Education: A Paradox Of Black Life In White Societies Mwalimu J Shujaa 1994 Non-Fiction Let Nobody Turn Us Around Voices Of Resistance Reform And Renewal: An African American Anthology Manning Marable Leith Mullings 2009 Non-Fiction Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal 2017 Non-Fiction We Want Freedom: A Life In The Black Panther Party Mumia Abu-Jamal 2004 Non-Fiction The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 1993 Non-Fiction Blindspot: Hidden Biases Of Good People Mahzarin R Banaji 2013 Non-Fiction How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?: Being Young And Arab In America Moustafa Bayoumi 2008 Non-Fiction A Black Women’s History Of The United States Daina Ramey Berry 2020 Non-Fiction Antiracism, Inc. Why The Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters Felice Blake 2019 Non-Fiction I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness Austin Channing Brown 2018 Non-Fiction Strategies For Deconstructing Racism In The Health And Human Services Alma Carten; Alan Siskind; Mary Pender Greene 2016 Non-Fiction Between The World And Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 Non-Fiction We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017 Non-Fiction If They Come In The Morning; Voices Of Resistance Angela Daivs 1971 Non-Fiction Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Daivs 2003 Non-Fiction White Fragility: Why It’S So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism Robin J DiAngelo 2018 Non-Fiction Skin Trade Ann DuCille 1996 Non-Fiction Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay 2014 Non-Fiction Caught: The Prison State And The Lockdown Of American Politics Marie Gottschalk 2016 Non-Fiction American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin Terrance Hayes 2018 Poetry Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston 1984 Non-Fiction #Hashtagactivism: Networks Of Race And Gender Justice Sarah J Jackson 2020 Non-Fiction This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How To Wake Up Take Action And Do The Work Tiffany Jewell; Aurelia Durand 2020 Non-Fiction How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 2019 Non-Fiction Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall 2020 Non-Fiction Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America Ibram X Kendi 2016 Non-Fiction How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X Kendi 2019 Non-Fiction Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon 2018 Non-Fiction Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches Audre Lorde 1984 Non-Fiction The Inner Work Of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves And Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness Rhonda V Magee 2019 Non-Fiction Pushout: The Criminalization Of Black Girls In Schools Monique W Morris 2018 Non-Fiction The Condemnation Of Blackness: Race Crime And The Making Of Modern Urban America Khalil Gibran Muhammad 2011 Non-Fiction African-Centered Pedagogy: Developing Schools Of Achievement For African American Children Peter C Murrell 2002 Non-Fiction Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood Trevor Noah 2016 Non-Fiction So You Want To Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo 2019 Non-Fiction An African American And Latinx History Of The United States PaulOrtiz 2018 Non-Fiction Young Gifted And Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students Theresa Perry 2003 Non-Fiction For Malcolm; Poetry On The Life And The Death Of Malcolm X Dudley Randall 1967 Non-Fiction Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 2014 Non-Fiction Engineering And Social Justice Donna (Donna M) Riley 2005 Non-Fiction Superior: The Return Of Race Science Angela Saini 2019 Non-Fiction The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities To Help You Challenge Privilege Confront Systemic Racism And Engage In Collective Healing Anneliese A; Wise Tim; Wing Sue Derald Singh 2019 Non-Fiction Invisible Man Got The Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’S Education Mychal Denzel Smith 2016 Non-Fiction Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 Non-Fiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History In The Old South Michael Twitty 2017 Non-Fiction America’S Original Sin: Racism White Privilege And The Bridge To A New America Jim Wallis 2016 Non-Fiction Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward 2014 Non-Fiction The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’S Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 2010 Non-Fiction Malcolm X: The Last Speeches Malcolm X 1989 Non-Fiction The Autobiography Of Malcolm X Malcolm X 1965 Non-Fiction A People’S History Of The United States: 1492-Present Howard Zinn 2013 Non-Fiction Black Skin White Masks Frantz Fanon 1967 Non-Fiction Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory And Southern Identity Patricia G (Patricia Gail)Davis 2016 Non-Fiction I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 Fiction Fledgling: A Novel Octavia E Butler 2005 Fiction Kindred Octavia E Butler 2003 Fiction Parable Of The Sower Octavia E Butler 2012 Fiction Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 2016 Fiction The Book Of Night Women Marlon James 2009 Fiction Beloved Toni Morrison 2007 Fiction The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1993 Fiction The Underground Railroad: A Novel Colson Whitehead 2016 Fiction The Nickel Boys: A Novel ColsonWhitehead 2019 Fiction Red At The Bone Jacqueline Woodson 2019 Fiction Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 Fiction Sing Unburied Sing: A Novel Jesmyn Ward 2017 Fiction Breath Eyes Memory Edwidge Danticat 1994 Fiction Sula Toni Morrison 2004 Fiction Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Fiction Lot: Stories BryanWashington 2019 Fiction Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi 2020 Fiction Stella By Starlight Sharon M (Sharon Mills) Draper 2015 Young Adult Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip M Hoose 2009 Young Adult Monday’S Not Coming: A Novel Tiffany D Jackson 2018 Young Adult Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’S Guide To The Key Civil Rights Struggle Of Our Time James Kilgore 2015 Young Adult March: Book One John Lewis 2013 Young Adult March Book Two John Lewis 2015 Young Adult March Book Three John Lewis 2016 Young Adult The Silence Of Our Friends Mark Long 2012 Young Adult How It Went Down Kekla Magoon 2014 Young Adult Monster Walter Dean Myers 1999 Young Adult A Wreath For Emmett Till Marilyn Nelson 2005 Young Adult All American Boys Jason Reynolds 2015 Young Adult X: A Novel Ilyasah Shabazz 2015 Young Adult Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 Young Adult Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred D Taylor 1991 Young Adult On The Come Up Angie Thomas 2019 Young Adult The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 Young Adult Piecing Me Together ReneÃÅe Watson 2017 Young Adult Hush Jacqueline Woodson 2002 Young Adult This Is My America Kim Johnson 2020 Young Adult Black Enough: Stories Of Being Young & Black In America Zoboi Ibi 2019 Young Adult The Undefeated Kwame Alexander 2019 Children & Families Knock Knock: My Dad’S Dream For Me Daniel Beaty 2013 Children & Families Last Stop On Market Street Matt De La Pena 2015 Children & Families Underground Shane Evans 2011 Children & Families I Too Am America Langston Hughes 2012 Children & Families The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 Children & Families Freedom River Doreen Rappaport 2000 Children & Families Long Way Down Jason Reynolds 2017 Children & Families I Love My Hair! Natasha Tarpley 1998 Children & Families Freedom On The Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Carole Boston Weatherford 2005 Children & Families Genesis Begins Again Alicia Williams 2019 Children & Families One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia 2010 Children & Families Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson 2012 Children & Families Brown Girl Brownstones Paule Marshall 1981 Children & Families Becoming Michelle Obama 2018 Non-Fiction The Dead Are Arising: The Life Of Malcolm X Payne and Tamara Payne Les 2020 Non-Fiction Before The Ever After Jacqueline Woodson 2020 Children & Families When Stars Are Scattered Jamieson and Omar Mohamed illustrated by Iman Geddy Victoria 2020 Children & Families The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 Fiction Black Bottom Saints: A Novel Alice Randall 2020 Fiction The Talk: Conversations About Race Love & Truth Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (editors) Wade 2020 Children & Families Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism Change The World And Become A Good Ancestor Layla F Saad 2020 Non-Fiction The Freedom Artist Ben Okri 2019 Fiction Finna: Poetry Marshall Marshall Nate Nate 2020 Poetry The Death Of Vivek Oji: A Novel Akwaeke Emezi 2020 Fiction Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle For The Ballot Box DionneEvette 2020 Children & Families Such A Fun Age ReidKiley 2019 Fiction The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir Andr√© Leon Talley 2020 Non-Fiction The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 Fiction I Am Every Good Thing Barnes illlustrated by Gordon C James Derrick 2020 Children & Families Everything Man: The Form And Function Of Paul Robeson Shana L Redmond 2020 Non-Fiction I Don’t Want To Die Poor: Essays Michael Arceneaux 2020 Non-Fiction Homie: Poetry Danez Smith 2020 Poetry Party Of Two Jasmine Guillory 2020 Fiction Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Rights Era Jerry Mitchell 2020 Non-Fiction A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 Non-Fiction Remembrance Rita Woods 2020 Fiction Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi 2020 Fiction The City We Became: A Novel NK Jemisin 2020 Fiction The Color Of Law Richard Rothstein 2017 Non-Fiction Antiracist Baby Ibram X Kendi 2020 Children & Families Notes Of A Native Son James Baldwin 1955 Non-Fiction Grown Tiffany Jackson 2020 Young Adult Pet Emezi Akwaeke 2019 Young Adult One Person No Vote (Ya Version) Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden 2019 Young Adult One Person No Vote Carol Anderson 2018 Non-Fiction Warrior Poet: A Biography Of Audre Lorde Alexis De Veaux 2004 Non-Fiction W E B Du Bois’S Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America The WEB Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor) Britt Rusert (Editor) 2018 Non-Fiction Solitary: A Biography Albert Woodfox 2019 Non-Fiction Don’t Call Us Dead: Poetry Danez Smith 2017 Poetry Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017 Non-Fiction Rebel Beverly Jenkins 2019 Fiction Let Us Dream Alyssa Cole 2017 Fiction An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 Fiction The Water Dancer Coates Ta-Nehisi 2019 Fiction Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum 1997 Non-Fiction Caste Wilkerson Isabel 2020 Fiction Hair Love Matthew A Cherry Illustrated by Vashti Harrison 2019 Fiction The Mamba Mentality Kobe Bryant 2020 Non-Fiction