Novels/Plays

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds/Brendan Kiely

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Roots by Alex Haley

Native Son by Richard Wright

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston

Non-Fiction

Race Matters by Cornel West

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like It Is edited by Margaret Walker Alexander

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi