December 2023

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

November 2023

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

April and May 2022

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

February 2022

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

December 2021

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

July 2021

Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford

May 2021

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

March 2021

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

February 2021

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Luster by Raven Leilani

January 2020

Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

The Source of Self-Regard. Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

October 2019

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

May 2019

Lead From the Outside by Stacey Abrams

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker - A Memoir In Essays by Damon Young

My Education by Susan Choi

April 2019

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

March 2019

Solitary by Albert Woodfox

Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray - Letters to My Son in Prison by Jacqueline L. Jackson

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

February 2019

The Collected Schizophrenias - Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang 

An Unlikely Journey by Julián Castro

Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

January 2019

Educated by Tara Westover

November 2018

Heavy - An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Well -Read Black Girl - An Anthology by Glory Edim

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

October 2018

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

Fear by Bob Woodward

Everyday People: The Color of Life- a Short Story Anthology by Jennifer Baker, editor

September 2018

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

Everyday People. The Color of Life - A Short Story Anthology  edited by Jennifer Baker

August 2018

Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar

How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

Ayiti by Roxane Gay        

July 2018

This House, My Bones by Elmaz Abinader

Air Traffic, A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo

June 2018

Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore

May 2018

Brown by Kevin Young

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

April 2018

Her Body and Other Parties  by Carmen Maria Machado

Here Comes The Sun  by Nicole Dennis-Benn

An American Marriage  by Tayari Jones

March 2018

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Secrets We Kept - Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital

The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn, Phd and Elissa Epel, Phd

Halsey Street by Naima Coster

Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan

When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele