Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe

There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe

The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander

Power and Possibility by Elizabeth Alexander

American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander

The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander

Life upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin; Edward P. Jones (Illustrator)

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

Carol of the Brown King by Langston Hughes; Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni

A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni

Black Feeling Black Talk Black Judgment by Nikki Giovanni

Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates