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Black Authors: Non-Fiction

The Black Friend: On Being A Better White Person By: Frederick Joseph

The Pretty One By: Keah Brown

Our Time Is Now By: Stacey Abrams

Four Hundred Souls By: Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi

A Black Women's History of the United States By: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By: Isabel Wilkerson

Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man By: Emmanuel Acho

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools By: Monique W. Morris

How To Be An Antiracist By: Ibram X. Kendi

Why Are All Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Do Better By: Rachel Ricketts

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By: Anna Malaika Tubbs

So You Want To Talk About Race By: Ijeoma Oluo

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity By: C Riley Snorton

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto By: George M. Johnson

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America By: Ijeoma Oluo

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together By: Heather McGhee

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement By: Angela Y. Davis

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness By: Austin Channing Brown

One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race By: Yaba Blay

Defining Moments In Black History: Reading Between The Lies By: Dick Gregory

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By: Mikki Kendall

Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis By: Kevin Mumford

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By: Ibram X. Kendi

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race By: Jesmyn Ward

Black Authors: Fiction

The Girl with the Louding Voice By: Abi Daré

Queenie By: Candice Carty-Williams

Americanah By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Prophets By: Robert Jones, Jr.

Augustown By: Kei Miller

The Water Dancer By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Their Eyes Were Watching God By: Zora Neale Hurston

The Black Flamingo By: Dean Atta

Under the Udala Trees By: Chinelo Okparanta

Salvage the Bones By: Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing By: Jesmyn Ward

Where the Line Bleeds By: Jesmyn Ward

Indigenous Authors: Across the Genres

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Ceremony By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Black Indian By: Shonda Buchanan

Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing By: Suzanne Methot

The Grass Dancer By: Susan Power

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers By: Jake Skeets

Living on the Borderlines: Stories By: Melissa Michal

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s By: Tiffany Midge

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age By: Darrel J. McLeod

My Body Is a Book of Rules By: Elissa Washuta

Split Tooth By: Tanya Tagaq

- Indian Horse By: Richard Wagamese

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers Edited By: Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Postcolonial Love Poem By: Natalie Diaz

There There By: Tommy Orange