BI&PoC Book List
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Chinua Achebe
There Was a Country
Things Fall Apart
Arrow of God
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Thing Around Your Neck
Purple Hibiscus
We Should All Be Feminists
Dr. Llaila Afrika
African Holistic Health
Nutricide: The Nutritional Destruction of the Black Race
Queen Afua
Sacred Woman
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
James Allen
As a Man Thinketh
Ra Un Nefer Amen
Metu Neter
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Heart of a Woman
Gloria Anzaldua
Christin Armstrong
Wash Day
Cut Day
M.K. Asante
Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Fire Next Time
The Devil’s Work
Native Son
Another Country
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Key Ballah
Rodolfo Benavides
Dramatic Prophecies of the Great Pyramid
Brit Bennett
The Mothers
Bereolaesque
Gentlewoman
Baba Kali Bhujangi
Haile Selassie and the Concept of Enlightenment
Charles Blow
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Carleen Brice
Orange Mint
Tea
Gwendolyn Brooks
Cupcake Brown
A Piece of Cake
Octavia Butler
Kindred Spirits
Fledgeling
Parable of the Sower
Xenogenesis Series
Wildseed
Soz
Lilith’s Brood Series
Bebe Moore Campbell
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Ernessa T. Carter
32 Candles
The Awesome Girls Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men
Kim Cash Tate
Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street
Upile Chisala
Soft Magic
Deepak Chopra
How to Know God
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Pearl Cleage
What Crazy Looks Like on an Ordinary Day
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
The Beautiful Struggle
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Patricia Hall Collins
Black Feminist Thought
Black Sexual Politics
J California Cooper
Family or Real Anything
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Krik Krak
Angela Davis
Autobiography of Angela Davis
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Joy DeGruy
Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
Achak Deng
What is the What
Junot Diaz
This is How You Lose Her
Eric Jerome Dickey
Sleeping with Strangers
Waking with Enemies
Milk in My Coffee
The Other Woman
Drive Me Crazy
Rita Dove
Frederick Douglass
Sharon Draper
Copper Sun
Tears of a Tiger
W.E.B. Dubois
The Souls of Black Folk
Tananarive Due
African Immortals
Between
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Frantz Fanon
Wretched of the Earth
Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Antoine Fischer
Finding Fish
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Till the Well Runs Dry
Obba Funmilayo
Obba in her Daughter’s Words: A Journey of Healing, Forgiveness and Love
Roxana Gay
Gibson
Flowering Woman
Yaa Gyasi
Homecoming
Nikki Giovani
Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers
The Tipping Point
Donald Goines
Kaffir Boy
Sam Greenlee
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Alex Haley
Roots
Hill Harper
Letter to a Young Boy
Bell Hooks
All About Love
Sisters of the Yam
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
John Howard Griffin
Black Like Me
Tamara Winfrey Harris
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Moses, Man of the Mountain
George Jackson
Soledad Brother
George G.M. James
Stolen Legacy
C.L.R. James
Black Jacobins
Marlon James
The Book of Night Women
N.K. Jemison
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Inheritance Trilogy
Ben Jochanan
Africans in Origin
Major Western Religions
Umar Johnson
Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys
Imani Josey
The Blazing Star
Rupi Kaur
Milk & Honey
Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Zami
Nelson Mandela
A Long Walk to Freedom
D. Mason
One Day I Saw a Black King: A Novel
Ebony McAllister
Words Don’t Teach: Affirmations to Stimulate Your Consciousness
Angels Everywhere
Perfectly Flawed: 7 Secrets to Healing From the Inside
Nathan McCall
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Bernice McFadden
Sugar
Diane McKinney-Whitestone
Tumbling
Terry McMillan
Mama
Disappearing Acts
Tracye McQuirter
By Any Greens Necessary
Zakes Mda
Black Diamond
Mary Monroe
Mama Ruby
Monique W. Morris
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Tony Morrison
Sula
The Bluest Eye
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Beloved
Song of Solomon
Jazz
Walter Mosley
Always Outnumbered
Devil In a Blue Dress
Elijah Muhammad
Message to the Blackman in America
Credo Mutwa
Indaba My Children
V.S. Naipaul
Miguel Street
Gloria Naylor
Mama Day
Pamela Newkirk
Spectacle
Huey P. Newton
Revolutionary Suicide
Lisa Nichols
Abundance Now
Flora Nwampa
Efuru
Girls at War
Davis Olusoga
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Gordon Parks
A Hungry Heart: A Memoir
C.P. Patrick
The Truth About Awiti
Dear Ancestors
Phyllis Perry
Stigmata
Delores Phillips
The Darkest Child
Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man
Issa Rae
The Misadventure of an Awkward Black Girl
Claudia Rankine
Citizen
Jason Reynolds
Shonda Rhimes
Year of Yes
Jewel Parker Rhodes
Douglass’ Women
Toure Roberts
Purpose Awakening
Cedric Robinson
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
The Four Agreements
Charles R Saunders
Imaro
George Schuyler
Black No More
Ivan Van Sertima
They Came Before Columbus
Assata Shakur
Assata: An Autobiography
Ntozake Shange
Sassafras
Cypress
Indigo
Warsan Shire
Iceberg Slim
Trick Baby
Robert C. Smith
We Have No Leaders
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
Patrice Malidoma Some
Of Water and the Spirit
Sista Soulja
The Coldest Winter Ever
Midnight
No Disrespect
Zoe Spencer
Murda Misogyny Mayhem
Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy
Keeganga-Yamahta Taylor
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Ula Taylor
The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Bryant Terry
Afro-Vegan
The Hood Health Handbook Vol. 1 & 2
Vegan Soul Kitchen
Latham Thomas
Mama Glow: A Hip Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy
Trisha R Thomas
Nappily Series
Baratunde Thurston
How to be Black
Omar Tyree
Leslie
Fly Girl
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Questions for Ada
Iyanla Vanzant
Peace from Broken Pieces
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Temple of My Familiar
Wakefield & S. Shakespeare
Xaymaca
Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time
Salvage the Bones
Men We Reaped
Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret
Rebecca Walker
Ade
Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers
Cornell West
Race Matters
Isabel Wilkerson
Warmth of Other Suns
Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization
Tia Williams
The Perfect Find
Carter G. Woodson
The Miseducation of the Negro
Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming
Another Brooklyn
Show Way
Richard Wright
Black Boy
Malcolm X
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Zane