Photo via Clay Banks

Photo via Clay Banks

Memoirs

  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  • The Best We Could: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

  • Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

  • Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog & Richard Erdoes

  • A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

  • Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 

  • Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversation (Graphic Novel) by Mira Jacob

  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

  • When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

  • Paper Sons by Dickson Lam

  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

  • Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  • Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

  • Citizen 13660 (Graphic Novel) by Miné Okubo

  • I Love Yous Are For White People: A Memoir by Lac Su

  • Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry

  • From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle

  • Dear Girls by Ali Wong

  • The Auto-Biography Of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Essays

  • They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

  • Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  • Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard

  • We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation by Jeff Chang

  • Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, And The Foundations Of A Movement. by Angela Y. Davis 

  • If They Come In The Morning...Voices Of The Resistance by Edited by Angela Davis

  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

  • Open My Eyes, Open My Soul by Yolanda King and Elodia Tate

  • Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color by Edited By Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

  • Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry

  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward