- Brown Girl by Daphne Glenn
- Brown Boy by Daphne Glenn
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
- Cry Like a Man: Fighting for Freedom from Emotional Incarceration by Jason Wilson
- Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
- Halsey Street by Naima Coster
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Leading from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
- Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
- My Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Power Forward: My Presidential Education by Reggie Love
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The One Week Budget by Tiffany Aliche
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
- The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations by Toni Morrison
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim