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