I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelo

By the Light of My Father’s Smile – Alice Walker

The Sweeter the Juice – Shirley Taylor Haizlip

The Coming Race War in America – Carl Rowan

Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner – ed. Freedomways

Gone Fishing – Walter Mosley

Brothers and Keepers – John Edgar Wideman

Milk in My Coffee – Eric Jerome Dickey

Migrations of the Heart – Marita Golden

The Street – Ann Petry

What Black People Should Know Now – Ralph Wiley

Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson

Ugly Ways – Tina McElroy Ansa

The Hand I Fan With – Tina McElroy Ansa

In Search of Satisfaction – J. California Cooper

Good Fences – Erika Ellis

Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, & Bottos – Nelson George

Native Son – Richard Wright

Easier to Kill – Valerie Wilson-Wesley

Mama – Terry McMillan

Linden Hills – Gloria Naylor

A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest Gaines

Blue Light – Walter Mosley

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

Gospel Choir – Derrick Bell

Seduced – Nelson George

Brothers & Sisters – Bebe Moore Campbell

The Return of Simple – Langston Hughes

Days of Grace – Arthur Ashe

Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family Community & Culture – Dr. Maulana Karenga

Before the Mayflower – Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Eyes on the Prize – Juan Williams

Bearing the Cross – David J. Garrow

Life and Times of Frederick Douglas – F. Douglas

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race & Sex in America – Paula Giddings

Black Music – Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations – Bell Hooks

On the Air – The Best of Tavis Smiley on the Tom Joyner Morning Show – Tavis Smiley

Wade in the Water – Lerone Bennett

I’ve Known Rivers – Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) – ed. Charles E. Jones

Up From Slavery – Booker T. Washington

Body & Soul: A Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health & Emotional Well Being – ed. Linda Villarosa

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children – Jawanza Kunjufu

African American Historic Places – ed. Beth L. Savage

Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class – Robin G. Kelley

The South – Nancy C. Curtis, PhD

The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois

Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa – Chester Higgins

African-American Art – Sharon F. Patton

Money Talks: Black Finance Experts Talk to You About Your Money – Juliette Fairley

Stranger to the Game – Lonnie Wheeler

Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela

Why Should the White Guys Have All of the Fun – Reginald Lewis & Blair S. Walker

An Olympic Journey: The Saga of an American Hero: LeRoy T. Walker – Griffin Publishing Company

Makes Me Want to Holler – Nathan McCall

Faith of Our Fathers – ed. Andre Willis

Black Fatherhood, The Guide of Male Parenting – Earl Ofari Hutchinson, PhD

The Spirit of a Man – Iyanla Vanzant

Buck Leonard: The Black Lou Gehrig – Buck Leonard with James A. Riley

Black Men – Haki R. Madhubuti

The Assassination of the Black Male Image – Earl Ofari Hutchinson, PhD

Brothers, Lust and Love – William July, II

Woodholme: A Black Man’s Story of Growing Up Alone – DeWayne Wickham

The Lady, the Melody, and the Word: The Inspirational Story of the First Lady of Gospel Music – Shirley Caesar

The Mood of Christmas – Howard Thurman

In the Company of My Sisters – Julia A. Boyd

Acts of Faith – Iyanla Vanzant

Sisterfriends – Empowerment for Women and a Celebration of Sisterhood – Jewel Dimond Taylor

In the Meantime – Iyanla Vanzant

Steppin Out with Attitude: Sister Sell Your Dream – Anita Bunkley

Faith in the Valley – Iyanla Vanzant

Public Affair – Margie Walker

Starlight Passage – Anita Richmond Bunkley & Sandra Kitt

Moon Rise – Roberta Gayle

Remembrance – Marica-King-Gamble

Between the Lines – Angela Benson

Journey’s End – Mildred Riley

What a Morning: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals – ed. John Langstaff

I Be Somebody – Hadley Irwin

John Brown: A Cry for Freedom – Lorenz Graham

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff – Walter Dean Myers

The Mystery of Drear House – Virginia Hamilton

The Secret of Gumbo Grove – Eleanora E. Tate

Theo and Me: Growing Up Okay – Malcolm Jamal Warner with Daniel Parsner

Another Way to Dance – Martha Southgate

The Measure of Our Success – Marian Wright-Edelman

Testimony: An Anthology of Essays by Black Students – ed. Natasha Tarpley

The Secret of Freedom – Vernon Kitaba Turner

Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning – Sarah E. King

Getting Right with God – Lionel Newton

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun – Jacqueline Wilson

Rites of Passage – Tonya Bolden

The Games of Africa – Jennifer Prior

Something Beautiful – Sharon Dennis

My Steps – Sally Derby

Neeny Coming, Neeny Going – Julie Dash

Marriage of the Rain Goddess – Margaret Oliva Wolfson

Lessons from History – Jawanza Kunjufu

John Henry – Julius Lester

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry for African American Children – ed. Davida Adedjouma

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters – Patricia C. McKissick

The African American Child’s Heritage Cookbook – Vanessa Roberts Parham

Bitter Bananas – Issac Olaleye

Come Sunday – Nikki Grimes

Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman

The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles

Dear Benjamin Banneker – Andrea Davis Pinkney

Allie’s Basketball Dream – Barbara Barber

Seminole Diary – Dolores Johnson

Smiffey Blue, Ace Crime Detective: The Case of the Missing Ruby & Other Stories – Walter Dean Myers

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – James Weldon Johnson

Papa Tells Chita a Story – Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z – Wade Hudson and Valerie Wilson Wesley