African American Booklists

Kids
- How sweet the sound / Kwame Alexander
- One day in June : a story inspired by the life and activism of Marsha P. Johnson
- Ada Twist, Scientist
- Saturday
- Grace for President
- Each Kindness
- Black Is a Rainbow Color
- Antiracist Baby
- Not My Idea
- Maya Angelou finds her voice
- Space for everyone
- Go forth and tell : the life of Augusta Baker, librarian and master storyteller
- Sharing the dream
- When Alexander graced the table
- Black joy
- Yvonne Clark and her engineering spark
Teens
- Black girl you are Atlas
- The swans of Harlem : five Black ballerinas, a legacy of sisterhood, and their reclamation of a groundbreaking history
- Superman Smashes the Klan
- Stolen Justice
- The Black Kids
- We Are Not Yet Equal
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
- Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You
- All Boys Aren't Blue
- March: Book One
- March: Book Two
- March: Book Three
- Just Mercy
- The leaving room
- I've got my love to keep me warm
Tweens
- Separate Is Never Equal
- The Undefeated
- This Book is Anti-Racist
Adult Fiction
- Homegoing : a novel
- Parable of the sower
- So you want to talk about race
- Their eyes were watching God
- The Vanishing Half
- The Conjure-Man Dies
- A Spy in the Struggle
- Voice of Freedom
- Colored television
- James
Adult NonFiction
- Original sins : the (mis)education of Black and Native children and the construction of American racism
- No human involved : the serial murder of Black women and girls and the deadly cost of police indifference
- Matriarch : a memoir
- Somewhere toward freedom : Sherman's march and the story of America's largest emancipation
- The fire next time
- Between the world and me
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
- The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
- Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
- Writings on the wall : searching for a new equality beyond black and white
- Baldwin : a love story