Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas

"Surpassing Certainty" by Janet Mock

"This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White)

"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios

"New People" by Danzy Senna

"Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward

"What We Lose" by Zinzi Clemmons

"Solo" by Kwame Alexander

"Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge

"This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare" by Gabourey Sidibe

"New Boy" by Tracy Chevalier

"The Heartbeats of Wing Jones" by Katherine Webber

"Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

"The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" by Heidi W. Durrow

"The Women of Brewster Place" by Gloria Naylor

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

"The Book of Harlan" by Bernice McFadden

"Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America" by Melissa Harris Perry

"Negroland: A Memoir" by Margo Jefferson