Black Biographies, Memoirs, Musings, and Personal Narratives:
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
Killing Rage: Ending Racism, by bell hooks
Zami - A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, by Audre Lorde
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama
Real American: A Memoir, by Julie Lythcott-Haims
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, by Maya Angelou
How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America, by Keisha N. Blain
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
A Revolutionary For Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story, by Leo Zeilig
Angela Davis: An Autobiography, by Angela Y. Davis
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to Change the World, by Patrick Hutchinson
I'm Tired of Racism: True Stories of Existing While Black, by Sharon Hurley Hall
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib
I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé, by Michael Arceneaux
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays, by Michael Arceneaux
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fire Shut Up in My Bones, by Charles M Blow
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, by Emily Bernard
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why We Can't Wait, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Indian, A Memoir, by Shonda Buchanan
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele
This Is Not for You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience, by Richard Brown with Brian Benson
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, by Jabari Asim
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, by Uche Blackstock, MD
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave, by Zora Neale Hurston
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, by Joy-Ann Reid
Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future, by Joél Leon
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope, by Shayla Lawson
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America, by Kim McLarin
Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It, by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration, by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts
Lovely One: A Memoir, by Ketanji Brown Jackson
You Get What You Pay For: Essays, by Morgan Parker
Cuz: An American Tragedy, by Danielle Allen