"Behold the Dreamers" by Imbolo Mbue

"Another Brooklyn: A Novel" by Jacqueline Woodson

"I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual" by Luvvie Ajayi

"The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights" by Steve Sheinken

"The 50th Law" by 50 Cent and Robert Greene

"Queen Sugar" by Natalie Baszile

"Second House From the Corner" by Sadeqa Johnson

"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander

"Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi

"Blackass" by A. Igoni Barrett

"The Book of Harlan" by Bernice McFadden

"Kindred" by Octavia Butler

"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollan

"Geena: A Bronx Chick's Story" by Empress Simone

"Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories" by Susan Gabriel

"The Journal of Sherise Sills: Companion Short Story to Indigo Tears" by Dennis J. Butler

"Letters to My Daughters: Poetic Affirmations of Love From a Father" by Avery Washington

"The Art of War: The Denma Translation" by Sun Tzu

"The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream" by Sampson Davis, George Je

"Mom & Me & Mom" by Maya Angelou